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LAST EDITION4i00 O'CLOCK)KILLING IS FEATURE OF ELECTION NIGHTSRomeo Casto Shot and Killed by Elk District Constable on Summers Street.r75(*HE CLAIMS SELFDEFENSEas'S-enatesWitnesses Say Dead Man Had Struck the Officer With a Bottle.-Allomro Casto, Has shot and kill* od in Summers street early this morn-s- ing, ami Hansford Melton, a ston-,.n stable of Elk distric t is being held atih«' city jail on a charge of murder. q lie will arraigned before Judge fap Vickers iii police court tomorrow fall morning. (-jnin* The * hooting occurred in the rear ingLte of the povtofflce shortly after 1 o'clock, no re Casto, the police say, was under the riv» as influence of whiskey, and was being hot in escorted to his home by N. M. Howies mmm ht. and Julius Hatcher, two of his friends. eJ when they met Melton in the street.The constable, it Has said, warned ier ( asto to desist from boisterous con* lal duct w hen the latter struck him in the face with a whiskey buttle, inflicting et ai ugly wound.When Melton recovered from the blow he drew* a revolver from his pocket and flre.i one shot at his a.s-«*:ifTnrt. The hnl! penetrated lt;\isto#s h^art Ju«t under the left arm and • »me ont ind*r the right shoulderRMade. WTlcatli Wav Sudden.P-ath w.;s almost instantaneous, n although the relaxation of muscles in 0lt;| ,v,° f«ce caused spectators to believe That the man was still breathing, and an ambulance was called. While he was being taken to a hospital a physt-pronounced that he was dead. ,Patrolman Harvey lieokt.er was a p.. / °venng his beat on a nearby streetReorcu»st bilt;•when the shooting occurred X tracted bv • he report of the revolver.» hemil deah n rihop,. ' Here is my prisoner; take charge • iof him retnarked Mtlton, pointing at fh» dead man King at his feet when 1’atrolrnun Tie* kner approached him. ' t?lMeJton was then arrested and taken Cn to the police station. According to '* his sforv. he had approached c'.istn m with words of arrest, after police of- !•«* #h • rs already had threatened to arrest •' him f*»r boisterous conduct, and *1 t'a-to sT'jck him w.?h the bottle with- r,i * * out furth- r provocation. t••• -■in,••■itIV-:heorheoil•m ((VinllniiC'd On Page Thw.)
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 08, 1916
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