The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-11-21
HID BEHIND DOOR AND
. TRIED TO KILL OFFICER
EMMETT STEVENS USED GUN
STOLEN WITH OTHER LOOT
FROM STORE OF RAINES.
JEFF DAVIS WOUNDED In ARM
Night Superintendent of Oil Mill Shot
While Assisting Officers. Band of
Thieves Was Operating in and
Around Dawson. Round Up Thieves.


Around Dawson Round Up Thieves.
Following the burglarizing Of the
store of Raines & Co., near the Cen
trail railroad station on Monday night
of last week, one negro was killed by
an officer Wednesday night, three were
jailed charged with burglary and two
others are fugitives
Wednesday Jeff Davis, night super
intendent OF the Dawson Cotton Oil
Company's plant, informed w. F.
English, manager of the Raines store,
that from a conversation he heard be-
tween Emmett Stevens and another
negro employee at the mills he was
certain that either Stevens or his
brother, Murray Stevens, had several
of the watches that were stolen when
the store was burglarized, and early
in the evening, about $50 o'clock, Mr..
English went to the oil mill for the
purpose of seeing the negroes. At the
appearance of the store manager En-
NETT Stevens ran, and MIR. English
caught hold of and held Murray Ste
vens until help reached him. Police
man McGraw and Gay R a n e s
soon arrived on the scene and to
them the negro confessed that he and
several other negroes committed the
burglary. He implicated his brother,
Emmett Stevens, Sam Reese, Young
Dons, Honey Mullins and Bill Dur
ham
Chief of Police Called.
At this juncture Chief OF Police w.
IL. Hill was called, and he headed a
party of several who went to the
home of Daisy Dillon, known as Che
news RANCH" where the Stevens ne
groes boarded, for the purpose of max
| ing a search. In the party were Cher
Hill, w. H. Locke, Gene Baldwin
and Jeff Davis. All were stationed
around the house, and Chief Hill, I'M
announced entered the front door to
find himself facing the muzzle OF a
20 guage shot gun in the hands of EN-
NETT Stevens The gun snapped, but
fortunately it did not fire. The Off
Ger quickly stepped to one side and
drew his pistol The negro backed
through another room to a door on
the back porch, and when ordered by
Mr.. Davis, who was watching there
on the outside, to stop he threw up his
gun and fired some of the shot taking
effect in the left arm Of Davis and
making a flesh wound. Chief Hill
quickly shot at the negro, who was
in the dark, and then threw his flash
light on him and shot twice more.
Stevens dropped his gun, crossed the
room and fell on a bed.
Two Bad Wounds.
The wounded burglar was put III
an automobile and taken to the city
| iail. where an examination by physi-
clans showed that one bullet entered
the abdomen and lodged in the liver,
another entered the lower bowels.
passed entirely through the body and
came out at the back, and another
made a slight wound on the wrist
Stevens fingered until 1880 O'Clock,
when. he died He never spoke after
being wounded.
! In Stevens pockets were found nine
watches. box of gun shells, a large
number of cigars, a pocket knife and
other articles that were recognized as
having been stolen from Raines &
Co.'S. store. The gun with which he
wounded Mr.. Davis and attempted to
shoot Chief Hill was also stolen from
this store when it was burglarized
The body OF the burglar was buried
| Monday by the city and the county
the expense being jointly borne.
Emmett and Murray Stevens were
both employed at the mill OF the Daw-
son Cotton Oil Co.
A Roundup Begun.
After the confession OF Murray Ste
VEINS and the wounding of Emmett
Stevens a search was begun tor. the
others implicated in the burglary
which resulted in the arrest OF Young
Dons and Bill Durham. Dons was
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