Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shirley, W.B. February 26, 1917
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The Butler Herald, March 1, 1917
The Butler Herald
Thursday, March 1, 1917
Page One

Moonshiners Slay Sheriff of Troup

LaGrange, Feb. 26 – 

Sheriff W.B. Shirley, of Troup County, was shot and almost instantly killed this
afternoon about 2 o’clock while he, accompanied by his deputy S.A. Smith and
J.A. Henderson, a revenue officer from Atlanta, were raiding an illicit
distillery in the southern part of Troup. The contents of the still had been
almost emptied when the sheriff was heard to say, “I am shot.”  He sank slowly
to the ground, where he died in a few minutes.  A number of shots were fired
from ambush but only the sheriff was hit.


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