Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-26
AGENTS SHOT
WHEN MISTAKEN
FOR H|CHWAYMEV
Officer ], G, Cobb Shot in
Hand No Liquor Found in
Car of Three West Point
Men-No Arrests Made

LAGRANGE, Ga, July 25.-J. G..
Cobb, prohibition agent stationed at
Newman, is shot in the hand, and
Gordon Andrews, of LAGRANGE, who
had been deputized by him to assist
in raid on a still, is in a dying con-
dition at a hospital here with three
bullet wounds in the shoulder and
side, as the outcome of a shooting
affray on the West Point-Chipley
road Tuesday night at 1890 o'clock,
when Cobb and Andrews stopped
car in which Jim Williams, Buck
Handy and Frank Jones were. re-
turning to their home nj West
Point. Handy, received a slight
scalp wound.
After the shooting, the young
men stated that as Cobb and An
drews waved their flashlights and
revolvers as they stood in the road
and commanded them to stop, they
thought they were being held up by
highwaymen, and so were doing all
in their power to make their escape.
No Arrests
When the officers searched the
car following the chase, no liquor
was found, and the young men
stated the revolver they had was
carried in the pocket of the car for
protection. No arrests have been
made in connection with the affair,
and Sheriff j, F. Carley said early
today that the action had been taken
by his office pending word from Off
Ger Cobb, or Prohibition Director
Dismuke, in Atlanta.
officer Cobb came to LAGRANGE
last night and deputized Gordon
Andrews and Tobe Emory to accom-
pany him on a raid of a still in Har-
ris county. Andrews drove the car.
They captured a negro at the still,
which was near the line between
Troup county and Harris county,
and were on their way home, when
at Jones' crossroads, between AL
ford's bridge and West Point. they
heard a car coming.
The Chase
Cobb decided to stop it, and he
and Andrews got out into the road
with flashlights and revolvers. Jim
Williams, driving the car in which
the young menewere returning from
Harris county, where they had called
on girl friends, thinking that they
were about to be held up by high
waymen, according to mis- statement
later, stepped on the gas" and shot
by the officers.
The negro prisoner was turned
over to Emory to be placed in Troup
county jail, and Cobb and Andrews
chased the West Point car. Cobb is
said to have shot at the tires of the
car in front, and Handy suffered a
slight scalp wound. The officers
overlook and passed the fleeing au-
tomobile. Again the flashlights and
reyolvers were brought into play.
car. AS Cobb walked up to it, he
was shot in the hand. Andrews was
met by three bullets as he ap-
preached Later, after the car had
been searched, Cobb was rushed tG
a hospital in Newman and Andrews
to a hospital in laGrange. Cobt
was reported recovering satisfac-
torily Wednesday, but grave fears
were expressed for Andrews.
TIRES PIERCED BY BULLETS
CAR COULD NOT ESCAPE
WEST POINT, Ga, July 25. -
Three West Point boys, Frank Jones,
Roy Williams and A. S. Handy, on
their return from attending church
in Harris county were ordered to
halt about Z miles out on the Chip
ley road Tuesday night. Thinking
the order came from drunken men or
they speeded up, trying
to get away. The men began shoot
ing at the tires. The boys came
several miles on the rim when their
car was overtaken and they were
fired into, Handy being shot in the
back of the head. Williams fired
back, it is said, hitting Andrews,
who lives near Chipley. Andrews
was carried to LAGRANGE, seriously
wounded, and Handy was brought
to West Point. The boys stopped
when they reached Bob Davidson's
home and their car was searched,
but no whisky was found.
REPORTED ISSUED
FOR PROHIBITION AGENT
NEWMAN, Ga, July 25.-Prohi-
bition Agent j. G. Cobb. who was
shot on the West Point-Chipley road
n. ght when he stopped an
on suspicion that it con-
tanned whisky, is recovering at hos
pital here from a wound in the hand.
He will leave the hospital shortly.
it is said.
1t was reported here about noon
that a warrant had been issued for
Cobb by one of the men in the car
that was stopped, but it had not been
served in the early afternoon.