The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1921-04-06
PROHIBITION AGENT
AND MARSHAL KILLED
Geo. TurnbOw Believes Lay-Off
Saved His Life-Officers
RiddIed.

Mr.. Geo. w. Turnbow, who has
been Prohibition Enforcement OFF,
Ger for South Mississippi, is Arm
believer in the statement that it is
better to be born lucky than rich
or in other words, to be prohibition
agent off duty at time like that en-
countered by Prohibition Agent
Greene and Marshal Dunham when
they were riddled with buckshot by
alleged moonshiners at Richton last
Friday while making a raid.
Had it not been that Mr.. Turnbow
received vacation orders a few days
prior and was not on duty he is GER
tain that he would have been with
Mr.. Green and very probably would
have been killed. For the past 3
months Green and Turnbow have
been working together on assign
ments.
From what Mr.. Turnbow says
Green must have had some kind of
premonition that something was go
ing to happen to him. Judging from
remarks made to Turnbow when
they were together the last few
weeks.
Along about the last time Turn
bow saw him Green said:- Il am get
ting tired of this kind of business.
have about got enough of it and /
think l will quit pretty soon and go
haplY fn
in peace"
While Mr.. Turnbow regrets ex-
ceedingly the sad ending of his bro
ther officers, he is also exceedingly
glad that he is still in the land of
the living with his relatives and
friends.
A newspaper report of the trou-
BILE at Richton, taken from the Hat
tiesburg American says the follow
ing
U. S. Prohibition Enforcement Of
ficer Jake Green and Marshal of
Richton ]. Lawrence Dunham lie
dead, their bodies riddled with buck
shot, and Henry Bond alleged moon
sinner is seriously wounded at the
Charity Hospital at Laurel, and A
mos Kelly, John Adams and Will
Morris, who admit they were helping
Bond distil moonshine whiskey, are
in the Forrest county Jail here today
as result of raid on still near
Richton shortly after noon yester-
day.
Marshal Green was found with
three buckshot through his right
hand, his pistol unfred. Marshal
Dunham was lying close to him, the
shots in his pistol all fired, and with
four loads of buckshot in his back.
Amos Kelly, one of the moonshiners
is wounded through the left arm
just below the shoulder.
Last night Deputy Sheriff Joe Gray
of this city, left for Richton. and on
his arrival there a posse was made
up, including Sheriff J.. w. Valley,
Of Green. county, and Deputy Jim
Mccoy, of Perry county. The shoot
ing took place at the border of these
two counties. They went to the
homes of Kelly and Adams, and ar
rested them without trouble, bring
ing them to Hattiesburg, where Nor
ris had been brought for safekeep-
ing.
Morris, interviewed at the Jail this
morning, declared that he had run at
the first shots, and did not see any
thing of the fight. When Adams,
came up, shortly after, they went
and called DR.. Cochran, of Richton,
and brought Bond, wounded thru
the right lung, to him, where he was
sent on to Laurel. Morris declared
that Adams was armed with a Colt
revolver, Bond with a double bar
relied shotgun and Kelly with re-
peating shotgun. After the first
shots, he said, he heard a lull and
then three shots in rapid succession.
The stock Of Kelly's gun was shot
through and the officers are holding
piece of this gun, found near the
scene of the shooting. Kelly declares
he was running away after his gun
was hit, and was shot while running
through the right arm.
All three Of those under arrest
here admit that Bond was running a
regular still there, and had been for
some time. Morris and Adams, how
ever, denied they had ever been there
but couple of times. Theya both
asserted they had urged KeIEv and
Bond not to take guns, but that these
two insisted and went armed. Nor
ris said he had heard conversation
among the men prior to the shooting
that Jake Green was said to be look
ing for the still, and that II anyone
came around, there would be shoot
ing,