Chambers County AlArchives News.....Shooting near Fredonia June 2 1915
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The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama)
SHOOTING AFFAIR NEAR FREDONIA
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   A terrible tragedy was enacted Saturday night [29 May 1915] near Fredonia, 
in which two men lost their lives. According to reports reaching Roanoke, three 
white men, Bill STEWART, Euc SIMONTON and Jack HARRIS, living near Five Points, 
went to the home of a negro [sic] named Luke SMITH and entered into 
conversation with him.
   Later, it is said, STEWART began firing into the negro’s house, and the 
negro returned fire with a shotgun, SIMONTON was wounded and it seems that 
HARRIS, while trying to rescue him, was also shot. He died the following day. 
SIMONTON died Monday night. STEWART fled, but we understand was later put under 
bond. The negro escaped.
   The whole affair is shocking and is greatly lamented by everyone. It is said 
that liquor purchased in Girard, in one of Alabama’s local option counties, 
played its part in the death of these two young men who had many friends.

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The evils of liquor are highlighted during this vocal period leading to 
enactment of prohibition with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 
1918.

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