Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pope, Henry C. September 9, 1934
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934

COUPLE SLAIN; OFFICER SHOT

Anniston, Ala., Sept. 3

Night Policeman Henry C. Pope, age 42, of Tallapoosa, Ga., was in a critical 
condition today at Garner Hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen as a 
result of a shooting at the City Hall in Tallapoosa, Ga., where Mr. and Mrs. 
Clyde Ledlow are alleged to have been slain by the officers Sunday.

Acccording to information reaching Anniston, the Ledlows had gone to the 
city hall about 2 o'clock Sunday morning to bail Mrs. Ledlow's nephew, 
Kenneth Sewell, out of jail. Sewell, it is said, had been arrested on a 
charge of drinking. The officer told them Sewell was not sober enough to be 
released and Mrs. Ledlow is said to have fired on Pope.

Pope, it was said, drew his own pistol and shot Mrs. Ledlow, causing instant 
death. Then Mr. Ledlow, it is reported, attempted to shoot the officer, who 
sent a bullet into the man's head. Ledlow was brought to Anniston but 
ambulance drivers said he died before they got out of Georgia. The Anniston 
Daily Star

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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934

BULLET WOUND PROVES FATAL

Anniston, Ala., [Monday] Sept. 10th

Henry C. Pope, age 42, night policeman at Tallapoosa, died Sunday afternoon 
at Garner Hospital from an abdominal bullet wound inflicted a week ago at 
the city hall in Tallapoosa where the officer shot and killed a man and a 
woman after he was fired on by the woman.

Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at Ebenezer 
church near Tallapoosa. The officer said he was shot by Mrs. Clyde Ledlow 
who came to the city hall to see about posting bond for her nephew who had 
been arrested on a minor charge. Pope stated that he shot the woman and her 
husband when the latter tried to get the officer's pistol.


Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: Henry C. Pope 
Death Date: Sep 1934 
Death County: Calhoun  
Volume: 39  
Roll: 3  
Page #: 19344

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