Evening star., 1921-10-24
ORANGE IS QUIET
AFTER TRAGEDIES
Virginia Town in Sorrow
When Two Men Are Slain
by Negro, Who Ends Life.
By q Staf Correspondent.

BY q staH correspondent.
ORANGE, Va, October 24.-On the
eve of the opening of a four-day
county fair sorrow pervades this bus
tling little Virginia town as the re-
suit of the Staying Saturday night of
County Sheriff William c. Bond and
Town Sergt. Boyer, who came to their
death in an attempt to arrest Walter
Ware, an alleged bootlegger. who
killed himself when cornered in a
barn by d mob of 500 citizens of
Orange.
Perfect order prevails in the town
, today. Groups of farmers from ad-
jacent towns are to be seen on the
main streets discussing the crime.
but colored people are attending to
their duties as usual.
Seven men were injured by shots
from Wares gun. None is seriously
hurt. Manley w. Carter. who suffered
the most from the encounter, has his
arm in sling. The other six, J. II.
Spicer, Henry Warren. county clerk !:
William Browning. Edward Marsh
and Grayson Brooks, were not seri-
ously hurt.
Dead Men Popular.
Both Sheriff Bond and Sergt. Boyer
were popular in this vicinity, the
.
been the finest county sheriff in Vir-
ginia," and the grief at their loss dis
played by the citizens of Orange is
most marked
Both men were married. and leave
besides their wives four children
each.
Gov. Westmoreland Davis. who
drove here from Richmond Saturday
night with two of his aides, Col
Hodges and Bright, returned to Rich
mond the same night after Offering
the Orange people military assistance
if needed. In relating the story of
the shooting John Farrar, employed
at Colvin's garage, who drove Sheriff
Bond and Sergt. Boyer to Wares
home Saturday afternoon, said:
! II left Orange with the two officers
at 2:45 in the afternoon. They went
| to arrest Ware for refusing to pay q
, fine for speeding an automobile.
| ing a whisky still. Arriving at his
home. the negro was not found. but
! the two officers searched, and when
| they came out told Farrar to wait for
| them.
| THE men then went into a thick
clump Of woods and ] waited for them
until $3.50 o'clock at night, when
heard two shots. and Sergt Boyer
cried. Come here, sheriff" Thinking
| the shots came from hunters, at first
1 paid no attention to them. but after
| waiting for ten minutes more decided
| to report the occurrence in Orange
| l drove back to the town and notified
| the citizens.
| Il then returned with William Hern-
! den, Andrew Colvin. and Garrett Mar
| tin, ahead of n crowd of more than
! 400 men of Orange. In searching the
! bushes where 1 had last seen the Off
GERS enter we ran across the two
bodies They were lying face down
ward. Sheriff Boyer had powder
burns on his chest and had his gun in
| hand, but it had not been fired. Both
men We're shot at close range.
by this time the crowd arrived ant
We divided off in small parties Il
search the adjoining country. The sec
barn of Jack p. Taylor of Richmond
tobacconist, vice president of the Uni
| versal Leaf Company, where they fount
the negro. 1t was while going through
the hay in the loft that MessrS. Garter
and Marsh were shot.
Barn Surrounded.
The barn was Immediately surrounded
and Willie Ware. father of the assassin
was designated to carry message tc
his son to surrender. He refused tt
surrender, and told his father if h.
came back again he would kill him
1t was then that the posse set fire t
the barn.
IN the meantime, W are SHOt Mini
self and later his body was discover.
ed in the ashes. This occurred a
daybreak Sunday morning.
commemorative Attorney Alexan.
der T. Browning substantially cor
troborated Farrar's story and was
most anxious to convey the fact thai
there is no semblance of race riot il
the community. A mass meeting OF
the citizens of Orange will be held
lduring the week when subscriptions
for the benefit of the widows anG
children of the two slain officers will
be taken up. Orange has a popula
ton of l,l00 and is the county seat o.
the county of Orange. w. q. c.