The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-24
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(staR oorrsspondeAt Of washington Hsrald.)
ORANGE, Va, Oct. 23.-Three are
dead and eight are wounded as the
result Of a raid made late last
night on the moonshine still of a
negro near here and a battle be-
tween the moonshiner and a posse
this morning. concluded by the
firing of the barn barricade of the
negro and his death in the flames.
The timely arrival of Gov. West
moreland Davis. Of Virginia. late
this evening is believed to have
averted an impending race riot
The dead are:
Sheriff William C. Bond, of Or
ange County.
Julian F. Boyer. sergeant of the
Orange police.
Walter Ware. negro moonshiner
The wounded men, all residents
Of Orange, are:
Manley Carter, Edward March, Al
bert Spicer, George Brooks, william
Browning, Earl Warmbesie, Hay
wood McCleary, Julian Grazett.
Posse Traps Negro.
The sheriff and his deputy were
slain by the negro last night. When
they failed to return this morning
the posse was formed and the six
hour battle with the negro followed
before his barn barricade was fired.
None Of the eight wounded are in
serious condition.
On Saturday afternoon Sheriff
Bond. accompanied" by Sergeant
Boyer, drove out TO church Run
road. three miles from the Orange
Court House, where IL was thought
Walter Ware, the negro, was con-
Quoting a moonshine stIIl on an ex-
tensfve scale. The two officers ie n
the car with the chauffeur and dis
appeared In the dense woods, Direct
~ opposite the estate of Jacquelin
p. Taylor, OF Richmond.
Found Dead In Woods.
The driver of the car, having
waited six hours for their return
drove back to Orange Saturday
night and reported the strange
olsappearance of the tive men 10
Alexander c. Browning, common
wealth attorney and Coroner DR..
Lewis Holiday.
All night the two men ar
companied by a posse of citizens
searched the woods and about =
o'clock this morning came upon
bodies of the. two men. living
close together on an almost Inae.
cessible hillside.
Returning to the town with the
bodies of the two men, members
OF the posse began a search for
ware, at once suspectinK him Of
the murder. -
Confessed to killing.
Al the home of the negro Wares
wlfe. 1t is claimed, made a state
ment to z. H. Organ and Louis
6ertucci, Of the Richmond police
department, who had been order.d
70 the scene of the murder by Gov
Jaws In which she said her hus.
nand had confessed the killing ~
the two officers and, after snend-
ing Saturday night at his home
mad left early this morning m
an effort to escape.
The posse, led by Commonwealth
Attorney Browning, went back 10
the scene of the murder, and were
Joined by other groups of citizens
from other Vtowns in the surround
ing country.
Hurt In Auto Crash.
One group was led by warren
Gulrich, of Fredericksburg. son az
state Senator R. o. Gulrich. This
young man was seriously injured
late this afternoon when a car in
which he was returning from the
scene OF the ARRAY, overturned on
the state road. He was taken to!
mis- home in fredericksburg. .
Ware maintained his moonshine
still In a secluded spot at the sum-
init of the wooded hills. Two hun.
dred yards away was a barn and IL
was there that Ware fortified him
self against the combined. posse.
composed of more than 200 citizens
and county detectives.
wounds Eight Pursuerr. j
Armed with a shotgun. the negro
managed for some time to stop the
approach of the pursuers and
wounded% eight members OF the.
posse.
After an hour had elapsed and,
efforts were concentrated on cap
turing the negro alive. flames were
seen shooting from the roof of the
barn. ...s
According to members of the
posse shots fred by them set fire to
hay stored in the barn. A breeze
famed the flames and in a few
minutes the entire building was
burning.
Several of the posse then ap-
preached the burning building and
searched for the negro, the re-.
mainder spreading around the
- Answers With Bullets.
The negro was ordered to come
out His answer was a round of
shots. No one was hit the first
time, but when. again ordered to
surrender one or two men were
slightly Injured.
It has not been established
whether or not the crowd deliber-
ately set fire TO the barn. As the
flames spread the negro opened fire
again, wounding several more men.
Soon the crowd saw the timbers
OF the barn begin to fall and in the
light Of the blaze caught a glimpse
Of the terror-stricken negro.
After the barn had been practi-
cally demolished. the IRE was ex-