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Three Men Shot to DeathEight Othe rs A re WoundedHundreds Join in ManhuntBy the Associated Press.DREW, Miss., Dec. 15.—Mortally wounded by 20 machine gunbullets which pierced his body, Joe Pullen, negro, who for more thanseven hours last night held a posse of several hundred men at bay, was captured near here shortly before 1 o’clock this morning.The negro, virtually lifeless, was brought to Drew. He died at 2 o’clock this morning.The twelfth victim of the spectacular battle was J. L. “Bud’’Doggett, who was a member of the machine gun squad. A bullet fromthe negro’s pistol pierced Doggett’s left side in the region of the heart. It was not known early today whether the wound wouldprove fatal.Pullen was captured only after a spectacular gun battle, in which throe white men lost their lives and nine others were wounded. A party of six men mounted a machine gam on the bank of a drainage ditch, where Pullen had taken refuge, and for an hour or more pourednegro♦DREW, Miss., Dec. 14.---Three men were shot to death and eight were wounded—two of them seriously—in n manhunt which beganshortly after noon today, when .Toe Pullen, negro tenant farmer, ran amuek with a pistol and shotgun after fatally wounding W. T. Banders, a planter, and battled with posses which drove him through acanebrakc for several miles and into a drainage ditch east of Drew, where he is still held for the night.Tonight a posse of approximately 1,000 men had joined in the pursuit and plans were under way to dump 500 gallons of gasoline into the ditch where Pullen is believed to have taken refuge and set fire to it in an effort to drive him from his place of concealment.In addition to Sanders, Ihe two men listed as dead are R. L. Meth-vin, 55, and a man named Hess. Both were members of the posse which took up the pursuit shortly after Sanders was shot to death when he went to the negro’s cabin to arrange a business settlement. The known wounded, all farmers and members of the posse, are:A. L. Manning, 35; Kenneth Blackwood, 35; Luther Hughes, 40; O. A. Hammond, 33; Rob**rt Stringfellow, 40; J. B. Ratliffe, B. A. Williams and Robert Kirsrh.Manning and Blackwood were seriously wounded. Both weregiven emergency treatment and rushed to hospitals. Manning wassent to Memphis and Blackwood to Greenville,After killing Banders, Pullen ran to his home, obtained a shotgunand a supply of ammunition and took to the canebrakc. Posses werequickly organized and started in pursuit, but three times the negrooutshot, his pursuers when attempt* were made to rush his place ofambush, and each time gained another place of vantage when his barricade was rushed.
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana, US
Sat, Dec 15, 1923
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