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S FOUR ARE DEADtT IN A FIERCE CUNtosntowFIGHT IN SOUTHlch Mississippi Negro Slays Three ! And Wounds Nine Members Of Posse.INS Captured After Long Struggle And Body Riddled With Bullets.)n-y,(Associated Press )| 2 | IKKW. MISS., Dec. 15.—This little pillage, nestling in the swamps, of ! the Mississippi delta, awoke from ii«ghdn:; slumbers today and counted its dead] ■* , ■—the human toll exacted yesteiu^y' Jy of 1 in tho spectacular gun battle between * ' Joe Pullen, negro tenant farmer, and4* to a posse of several hundred men. i £jid- | Four men, including the negro, lost' ★★★was their lives in the battle*which raged until 1 o'clock this morning when £ ' Pullen, Uddled with bullets, was' ★^n captured and brought here. Mine,* *° otheis were wounded, three of them’ *tJcs perhaps fatally.•'ex e The dead:tion 1 * Joe rulIon* negro tenant f»r-Y Of mer*mis * '',Vm T* Sanders, 43, his employers al Metlivin, 55, pos3eman.ical ’ ^ lIess* so* posseman.All of the wounded men were mera-otl bers of the posse which battled withha? ’the negro for more than seven hours,' j The more seriously wounded are J.-*5★★★★*•srj- ] D. Doggett, prominent lumberman xtes . and sportsman of Clarksdale, Mis* ;on ] A. L. Manning and Kenneth Blacvc-nch ‘ wood, both farmeis.arlv | Doggett May Recover,t it J Doggett was shot in the region of wry t the heart, but physicians said lie had de* j a chance to recover. Manning and rin- Blackwood both wei e shot m the imo . face and neck Neither is expecVed ! to live through the day.^ Pullen was captured at i o'clrck ^ this morning when four members of un® the posse braved the negro’s fire and ir-'s stormed the drainage ditch in which \ lie- had - been entrenched for several hours. The party set up a machine Dui'. • gun which had been brought from aja Clarksdale and opened firo on the s a negro's stronghold. Fighting desper-:on- ately to the end, Pullen returned the lay, firo with pistoi and shotgun until he tge- • fell with twenty bullets.‘enii j The trouble started shortly after j noon yesterday when Sanders, on j whose place Pullen lived, went to tho * ' latter’s house to collect a debt. An★★★★★★+*★I argument ensued and the negro shot ■ V Sanders thiough the heart, killing him Instantly.fCsrmR;raaro\mcoIniUW \ Flees Into Swamp.K After shooting his employer,minsPullen ran iijto his cabin, armed himself with a shotgun and fled into a swamp. ~~A small posse was quickly formed and a systematic search for the Q{ negro was begun. x Pullen , was j sighted several times during vthe 3DS 1 afteruoon, but each time he proved ^ the better marksman. One by one, ted. he dropped Ins pursuers from am-j bush. By the time he had reached • the drainage ditch, the negio's dead-i ly aim with shotgun and pistol'’had brought down ele\en members of the posse, which by^ this time had befen increased to several hundred. His twelfth victim was J. L». Doggett, who was shot while assisting In placing the machine gun.hsntmththwlure the uni-re-vere icre.hePStlimbistntclt;aittdii■5 1
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Dec 15, 1923
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