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^ t ^ P ' 20?’ mustr qf *d ?h#*o theDeathfhd'ip 0Mai;» *hH ah?h*H\LLKTTSVILLE, Tex. (AP) - A disturbance near Shiner inSouth Texas early Sunday . erupted into an incident that leftt the Uivaca County sheriff dead, ?►,# a deputy wounded and anotherman shot by a UK)-man posse.Sheriff Ronnie Dodds died of gunshot wounds and Deputy Alia rt .Jakubek was in c ritical lt;« condition with gunshot wounds in the head at Santa Rosa Mcd-' of ’cai Center in San Antonio.Within hours after the two •' officer-, were shot, a posse sfiot a man tentatively identified by ^officers as Samuel Matthews during an exchange of gunfire in a wfHMled area near Halletts-villc Matthews was takento John Sealy hospital in Galveston. where he was reportedin undetermined condition.Highwac patrolmen gave this account of what happened:Two highwac patrolmen ar-bidsp cMil. jvV1h *t h flt;th#'*•of«d$. *.. i vOforrested five Negroes for a disturbance near Shiner and turned two of the men over toDodds and Jakubek.Floy proceeded toward Hallettsville when one of the men grabbed Dodds' pistol 3nd shot the two officers. The two ( men then shoved the dead sheriff and the deputy out of the car and continued.Officers say one of the men abandoned the sheriff’s car near ' Hallettsville, then stole a pickup truck.\beut 8 miles east of Hallettsville, Colorado County officers chased the man to a woodedarea, where he proceeded ona; fOOt.'lt;? A Department of Public Safe-v tv helicopter was called m from Corpus Christi. It flushed aje man out of the woods. There was a brief exchange of gun-r fire in which Samuel .Matthews was wounded.Matthews was charged with « murder with malice in the court of Harris County Justice of the Peace Wilbert Roznosky Podds had been sheriff for ) five years.
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Mon, Sep 29, 1969
Page 52
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