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Gainesville, Fla., .May 12.—Marshal C. H. Slaughter and Deputysheriff Charles White of Archer.Fla. were decoyed to a lonely spotnear that place at 3 o’clock thismorning and assassinated. 1 yf.T. A. Manning, another deputy,tifeigned death after being wounded. aj He shot one of the assassins and cap- b(ti red a man and his three sons who f.^are now in jail. ^Yesterday the marshal receivedword there was gambling among the ,A * ■Cnegores on the outskirts of town. Hedeputized White and Manning andtostarted for the scene. When the par-thoffly approached the ./vicinity ,every- ^thing seemed to be quiet, but whenthe officers started to reconnoitrethey were greeted by a volley ofshots.Marshal Slaughter and DeputyMseSheriff White fell at the first fire,both being dead when aid arrived. Manning also fell with a wound in hhis abdomen. He feigned death and ,!las the negro assailants started away,tbhe shot Cain Perry, one of the number and at the point of a pistol cap- dltured Pern 's three sons who were al-Rtleged to have been implicated in the tJrshooting. IThe four negroes were placed in j,0il.SijaBen Stokes, a notorious “blind ratiger” operator, was shot and killedbv Marshall Slaughter severalc amonths ago. Slaughter, it wasMaimed, was forced to shoot in sell- - *, , Mdefense.ur
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Mon, May 13, 1912
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