Appling County GaArchives News.....Waters, Wiley Shot Dead November 16, 1930
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Appling County News November 16, 1930
WILEY WATERS IS SHOT DEAD IN JEFF DAVID

Hazelhurst, Ga., Nov. 16---
Wiley J. Waters, County policeman was shot and killed late last night by 
Grant Hinson, near the latters home 10 miles south of here.
Waters had found that Hinson, who was wanted for bond forfeiture in Appling
County was with his brother J. W. Hinson Jr., at the Hinson place and he went
to the scene accompanied by Frank Alexander to place him under arrest.
The officer secreted himself in a lane near the Hinson home and soon the
two Hinsons ran from their house toward a field, Waters opened fire shooting in
front of Hinson, apparently to stop him. 
Hinson stopped abruptly and leveled a shot gun, which he was carrying, at the 
officer, shooting at close range. Waters was killed instantly, a terrible hole 
being torn in his breast.

Hinson Arrested

Sheriff D. L. Evans of Jeff Davis county, was notified of the shooting and he
went to the Hinson home at once, arresting Grant Hinson on the charge of murder.
The prisoner was taken to the Montgomery County jail at Mt. Vernon where Jeff 
Davis county prisoners are kept.
Sheriff Evans said that Grant Hinson made no denial of the shooting. He quoted
Hanson as saying he did not know who had shot at him when he ran down the lane,
nor did he know, he said, who he had killed until later. He said the officer 
did not warn him, nor disclose his identity.
Asked why he was running Hinson said that the hogs in a field at the rear of 
the house were squealing and he and his brother ran out to find the cause, 
suspecting that someone was trying to steal swine.
Waters was 30 years of age and is survived by his wife and three small children.
Grant Hinson is 25 years of age and is unmarried.

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