The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-05

Rhoads sAid his attention was called
70 = bullet mark en- fence post py
the prosecution. Rhodes doubted
whether the mark was made BY bull
let He sAid q hatchst would have
made the same kind Of mark and men
had been working On the road at that
| point during the winter.
/ Feeling Against inspectors.
Rhoads had Z conversation with the
witness, BLY,. who had exhibited feel
/, ing against the inspectors and had
!, said to Rhodes, referring to the In
spectors. "the blank, blank. blank.
ought to be hung.
policeman Of Fredericksburg. In whose
/ custody the inspectors were lodged for
, a time. pending there arranged for
this bond, testified that he had. sesn
/ confusion on the head Of Inspector
Hall.
Harry F. Sweet. one of the four IN.
spectors. testified that the Shackelford
car approached the bridge at prob
ably twenty FIVE miles per hour Sweet
and Sullivan were about seventy-nve
yards from there own car, In the d.
| rection of the approaching car When
the Shackelford car stopped Sweet APP
preached to win about thirty-hve feet.
when the booze car was reversed and
suddenly started forward to right. as
the car started he heard one shot from
within the car and a second later two
other shots and, as the car moved
away, he saw Hall apparently fall
into the car from the running board.
believing that Hall had been killed
or badly hurt. He opened flre with his
pistol. sending six shots after the
fugitives He was positive that the
oh jnside
Sweet was severely cross-examined
in an obvious effort to make him say
whether he had heard any shots from
Halls pistol. He insisted that the had
not been able to identify any OF the
sounds as shots from Halls pistol.
Hall was inside the car as II moved
away and Sweet and the other two
inspectors with him were all firing.
Inspector Sullivan, who was with
Sweet up tho road. said that he had
signalled the booze car to stop. using
ITS flashlight as the car passed by.
He himself fred three times at the car
while II was moving down the Creek
road He corrohorated the other witt
nesses as to finding Shackelford's pis-
toll with three empty cartridges,
partly empty whiskey bottle and
wine bottle which may have been
empty, or nearly so.
He denied positively the story told
bv Witness Hood about drinking at
the booze car He declared nobody
drank.
Sullivan went with the wounded
men to the hospital in Winehes-
ter He helped Hudson to alight
! from the car and enter the hos
pitsl. saw him safely placed m
charge of two nurses and explained
to the nurses to be sure that Hud-
son received the very best of at
tention.
Attempts by the prosecution 10
question, him about searching cars
earlier in the night were pcremp-
torily shut off by the Judge.
W. B. DunLevy. formerly an en-
pioye of the Chesapeake and Ohio. tes-
tilted to the same material facts as to
others as who were present at the
| shooting when the booze car APP
preached he stepped from the inspec-
tors car to the left side of the booze
car.
He first looked into the rear OF the
car and saw that II contained whis-
key cartons, then stepped up beside
the driver. exhibited his inspectors
! badge and told the driver to consider
himself under arrest.
He then stepped on the running
board and led hold the curtain to
open 1t and take charge of the. driver.
At that moment the car started In
reverse and threw him of. AS the
car went down the road he fred three
times and then seeing Halls position
in the car fired twice more directly at
| the driver.
When the car had stopped he met
! Hudson coming toward the rear Of
| the car and heard Hudson say:
II begged my partner not TO
! shoot"
| He saw an abrasion on Falfs
| head. which Hall said had been
| caused by Hudson hitting him with
| a bottle. He remained with the
| booze car while the inspectors car
took the wounded men to Win
chester He denied absolutely
| that he or any OF the other OFF,
| GERS drank any. liquor.
| SheriHss Recital.
The last witness offered by the
| prosecution was B. ". Borden. deputy
! sheriff Of Shenandoah county. whose
home is three miles from Fishers
| Hill
| He..was called on by the inspectors
on the morning after the shooting and
went with them to the scene In the
! ear we're 20. full quarts OF whiskev.
! one quart bottle about two-thirds full,
| and ono other bottle containing iuid
which he did not identify. ~
| He said he talked with Hall. who
| told him that all of the inspectors had
| used there firearms.
| Borden got into the booze car. with
| Williams for a driver, and proceeded
/ the inspectors in their own car to
| Woodstock, the much disnuted storm
/ curt aims Of the booze car were of and
living upon the booze in the rear OF
| the car.
! Roy Adams OF Danville. testified
| that Hall and Shackelford were ac-
auainted, and that Shackelford left
| Danville shortly after the prohibition
! law went into effect Hall was at that
| time an officer in Danville and
| neishbor of Shackeiford On eross-ex-
| animation by the defense Adams was
| asked how many times Hall had ar
| rested Shackelford. but the prosacu-
tion objected and tho question was not
! answered.
! Mrs. Raymond Shackelford- widow
| of one of the victims and Mira Frank
| Oliver, sister of the other, were put
| upon the stand by the prosecution. but
could give no testimony bearing d.
rectly upon the case and the defense
| asked no questions. They were on
| the stand only a few minutes and
| maintained perfect eomposure.
Fl. Morrison, a photographer. who
had made additional pictures Of the
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