Nansemond County-Suffolk-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Shooting, 1920 

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        Suffolk Officer Shot. 

  (Special to The Times-Dispatch.) 

  SUFFOLK, July 13.- Henry [sic; Henley*] Churn, a plain-clothes officer of 
this city, was shot in the arm in an attempt to arrest William Jones, an 
alleged automobile thief this afternoon.  Jones, who is reported to have 
stolen the car in Newport News, is a soldier stationed at Camp Eustis, and 
after a strenuous struggle in the auto he was captured and placed in Suffolk 
jail.  The officer, who had been notified by wire to look out for the stolen 
car, an Oakland Sedan, which had been taken from the owner after he had been 
held up by a soldier, boarded the car when it turned from Pinner into Bank 
Street, pulling his gun as he stepped on the running board.  Jones drew a 
revolver and opened fire, wounding Churn arm.  Although a smaller man than 
in the his opponent the officer succeeded in overpowering Jones by throwing 
him against the windshield. 


"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," July 14, 1920. p. 5, col. 5-7 

*Additional information: 

Henley Wescott "Monk" CHURN, Sr. was Chief of Police in Suffolk, 1923 - 1940, 
   according to his obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Nov. 18, 1975), 
   posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/suffolk/obits/c650h1ob.txt 

While a marker remains in Cedar Hill Cemetery - where he wished to be buried, 
   beside his first wife, Hortense (PIERCE) CHURN (1896-1929) - 
   his remains were moved in the early 1980's by his second wife, 
   Margie (LOWE) CHURN, to her family plot, in Pineview Cemetery, 
   S. Rocky Mount, Edgecombe Co., NC. 
   (grandchild Sherry Matthews {smatthews1955@hotmail.com}) 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

His WW-I draft registration gives police man, Suffolk. 

The 1930 Census actually shows him as City Sergeant; 
   the 1940, Chief of Police. 

The text of the article has been corrected in the database, but the lines are 
   not all in the proper sequence - the text got blended with an adjacent ad 
   for Fleer's Florida Fruit Gum. 
   Library of Virginia (LVA), "Virginia Chronicle" newspaper database: 
   https://virginiachronicle.com/ 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/newspapers/19200714td.txt