The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-24
SLAYER OF OFFICER
 DOZENS SHOT AND
 INSTANTLY KILLED
Officers Surround House and Negro Showed Fight-Doz- en Shots Penetrate Body.
 Identity Certain

Albert Goldsmith, negro, who shot and fatally wounded City Detective Sam P. Dobyns, last Saturday night in Ninth Alley, near Sixteenth street, was shot and almost instantly killed few minutes before II o'clock last night at 722 Short Fourteenth street.
 | Officers Brown and Millican of the Ensley detective force came to the city detective headquarters in the carly part. of last night and stated that they believed they had information that would enable them to find the negro that killed Detective Dobyns.
 Two automobiles filled with .city de- tectives and several motor scouts, to- gether with Officers Brown and -Iilli- can, went to Alley H near Fourteenth street few minutes after 10 o'clock. l Motor scouts circled the block and a network of officers and plain clothes men were thrown around the block so ithat no one could escape.
 llOobCL oOlNINO l Nearly a dozen men of the criminal 1 division of the city detective force, with Officers Brown and Millican, went up on the back porch of house number 722 in short Fourteenth street. Offi- cers were also stationed in the front | and On all sides of the house. 1 The officers knocked at the door, but
 no answer came. Then they yelled that if whoever was inside didn't open tho door that they would kick it in. 1 Just at that moment the door
 was flung open and the negro jumped out. Officer Brown caught ] him and attempted to throw him to
 the ground. The negro drew a pis-
 toI from his pocket and putting it
 against Officer Browns chest
 pulled the trigger. But the bullet
 faifed to explode. The other off, l cers were afraid that if they shot | at the negro they would shoot the
 officer.
 The negro finally succeeded in get lting loose from the officer and started back into the house. On the top step The ST apped his pistol at the officers. Immediately more than a dozen shots
 rang out from the guns of the officers The negro dropped upon the top ster and died almost instantly.
 OlH Eh NEGROES SHOI | Two negro men that were asleep in the front room of the same house Jumped up when they heard the shots and started out of the front door ir their night clothes. The officers sta toned out front, thinking that the ne- gro was escaping fired upon them. One Iof the negroes was hit three times in the leg and the other received one shot in the right foot. Both were captured by the officers.
 Albert Goldsmith. the negro that was shot by the officers was known unceI more than a dozen different names City detective headquarters had him list ed as Albert Goldsmith, alias Andrew tSmth. alias Ed Warning, alias Warren Manning Negroes living around hin | stated that they knew him as Loui. iUlmer.
 However, he was later identified by his wife, who has been held in the city jail since Detective Dobyns was shot and killed last Saturday night. Several other negroes have also identified him.
 BODY RIDDLED
 | If is not known who among the crowd of officers fired the first shots. There were more than twenty city detectives jofficers and motor scouts standing at the 'foot of the steps when the negro opened 1.-the door, and it is said something lik' l fifteen shots rang cut at the same tim' twhen the negro succeeded in gettins loose from Officer Brown. His body < being held by Davenport & Harris, negro Iundertakers and later examinations 1 showed that he had received more thai la dozen shots in the chest and stomach. I Between two and three hundred negroe lcollected around in groups in the neigh fborhood where the shooting occurred, bu Tat a late hour last night all was quiet Chief of Detectives George Lyon stated last night that the person wh had informed them of the whereabouts lof. the negro murderer would be givei the reward that had been offered, bu that his name would not be made public