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HOLDSPOSSEAT DREW, MISS.Kills Planter First, ThenProps Two Members ofLarge Posse; Is DrivenInto Drainage DitchEast of Town.N* *a»tiAPPROXIMATELY si1,000 IN HUNTt1(B▼ Associated Presa)1DREW. Miss- Dec 15.Pierced by twenty maIchine gun bullets, the body of Joe Pullen, negro, who f for more than seven hours9Me fcIlast night held a posse ofIseveral hundred men at• *bay was dragged from adrainage ditcli near heresohrtlv before 1 o'clockfrathis morning.Press)DREW. Miss.. Dec. 141 Three men were shot to deathwoundedseriously in a man-hunt whichafternoonlPullen, negro tenarft farmerran amuck with a pistol andshot gun after fatally wound-planters He battled with posses whichr drove him to a cane brake for1 cnrnrul tv* i loo mnd inf a nd rainwhereed.be surround***iTonight approxim ately1,000 men had joined in theapursuit and plans were underAway to dump 500 gallons of\gasoline into the ditch and seteffort7 iPullen from his placemcealment.rfn addition to Sanders* two men listed as dead areI R. L. Metchin^ 55, and a man named Hess. Roth were members of the posse which took up the pursuit shortly after Sanders was «hot to death when he went to the negro's eabin to arrange a businesssettlement.!fA h. Manning. 35, and KennethRlaek wood, .15 were seriouslywounded. Roth were given emergency treatment and rushed to hospitals.After killing Sanders, Pullen rtn to his home, obtained a shot gun and ammunition and took to thecane brake. The other men who were killed or wounded werestruck by bullets while chasing thenegro.*—s—wi m■
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Logansport Morning Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 15, 1923
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