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Meets Death AfterKilling two Others.Savannah, Ga., Dec. 15.—Itwas learned in Savannah tonight that Metter, Candler county, was the scene late this afternoon of a tragedy in w’hich two men were shot to death and two others perhaps fatally wounded. ,Claxton Dekle, colored, and a white man stranger, whose name had not been learned in Metter up to a late hour tonight, became engaged in an altercation in a store. The stranger attempted to put the negro out of the store, and when he seemed to be getting the worst of it, Demp and James Riggs, white men, went to his rescue. iDekle is alleged to have drawn a pistol. First he shot the stran-.ger to death and then turned on the Riggs brothers. He riddled both of them and then fled. A mob was quickly formed and Dekle was overtaken. They made quick work of him, his body being literally shot to pieces.
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Mount Vernon Montgomery Monitor
Mount Vernon, Georgia, US
Thu, Dec 20, 1917
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