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1 RACE CLASH ENDS FATALLY, j1 ■-Two White Officers and Four Negroes Dead.• Millen, Ga., April 13—Six persons are known to be dead as a result of a race clash in the northern part of this (Jenkins) County this afternoon.The dead:W. C. Brown, county policeman.T. H. Stephens, night marshal.Edmond Scot*, a negro; John Holloway Ruffin, negro, and two of his brothers.The scene of the clash was at a negro church meeting in% the Cars-| well Grove. Scott was bringing a preacher from Waynesboro, 15 miles away, in an automobile, when he was stopped by the two officers who had j !been called to the scene because of. reports that blind tiger liquor was ! being distributed. Finding a pistol on Scott they placed him under arrest.Joe Ruffin, father, of the tbre? negroes wh0 were killed, drove up j in his high powered car and is alleged , to have opened fire. The two officers j and Scott and three of the Ruffin ( boys were killed there. Stephens, who had been especially active against, •blind tigers was not only shot, but ! his head and body were beaten. He] lived nearly two hours, however.Officers who rushed to the scene found Joe Ruffin and carried him to ; Augusta for safekeeping.They are still hunting for Louis' Ruffin and others who are alleged to have figured in the shooting. (Hundred of people hurried to Hie scene when first reports of the clash j were received and many of these remained out all night.
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The Dillon Herald
Dillon, South Carolina, US
Thu, Apr 17, 1919
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