Stokes County NcArchives News.....Pistol Battle at Smithtown October 7, 1905
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Kinston Free Press (7 Oct 1905) October 7, 1905
Kinston Free Press newspaper of Kinston, NC

Greensboro, Oct. 6. - Particulars were received here today of a lively pistol 
battle which occurred at Smithtown Stokes county, yesterday afternoon, in which 
Deputy Sheriff John SMITH was wounded in the side and two young men of the crowd 
who attacked him were also shot.  The trouble occurred when the deputy was 
removing to jail Mrs. Frank CALDWELL, who had just been bound over by a 
magistrate to court on a charge of retailing.  A crowd of men, headed by Oscar 
SISK, set upon SMITH attempting to take the woman from his custody.  The 
shooting followed the deputy's refusal to give up the prisoner, about fifty 
shots being fired in rapid succession.  The woman finally gave bond and was 
released.  SISK was arrested and committed to jail.

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