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WHARTON COUNTY':: SHERIFF .v• 19 WOUNDED: BY DEMENTED ' MV-(From Whurton Spectator).• railed upon Wednesday afternoon tn go over to the vicinity at El Cnmpo and got Joe Lfchtmvpky. a Hiv Jumhan man some ;{4' years of age, who was Mi oca lo'nitig U) shoot some of his neighbors. Sheriff KeltamiDeputy Mays ' at ..nhce left fur theplace. ’ At El Campt) the officers ] linked up an oilier deputy and the three, wont out to the • Lick no v sk y farm. As they drew near the place they, saw Tjcbnovsky staruling In a sleklwhh a gum lie saw them ««ii' inc and ran to the house, ascending to rlie second story.The officers drove up and start oil to the house, Sheriff Reitz' a few paces In front of the others. - As lie ] storied to the door of the house j I.j'chnovsky poke 4 a shotgun through an upstairs window and fired, the charge of shot striking- the Sheriff lt;»:i the’- rlglit sitierYortrmnteI77 ■the slmi. were small, for had the cun hneti loaded, with, buckshot ’tilt* officer would never have known what hit him. As it’iva's. several sbor entered-Iiis face just hack of the right eye-a-u 4—other* peppered his right nr innil the way from the shoulder to his hand. Mr. Reitz looked up, but could- spe nothing as the. sun was re flee ting against the glass of the window. He fired twice through the window', however, but Uchnovsky had evidently backed v.wny or lay down lt;►11 the floor after firing.
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Eagle Lake Headlight
Eagle Lake, Texas, US
Sat, Mar 05, 1927
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