NEWSPAPER:  Alex Campbell / Forest Truslow Shooting
SOURCE:  Daily Progress Newspaper, Charlottesville, Virginia
CONTRIBUTOR:  Dennis Truslow <dtruslow2002@msn.com>
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Contributor's Note:  The errors in spelling are as published in the Daily Progress Paper.


The Deaths of Alex Campbell and Forest Truslow


February 27, 1933 (Headlines) "Two In Hospital After Guns Blaze"

Alex Campbell 26, and Forest Truslow, 23, are patients at University Hospital following 
an argument at Greenfield Saturday night.  During the course of the difference between 
the men, Campbell was shot in the chest and Truslow in the abdomen with a .32" pistol.  
Both men are said to be in a serious condition at the hospital this morning, where they 
were admitted at about 3:30 A. M. Sunday and operated upon almost at once.
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March 1, 1933 (Headlines) "NELSON OFFICERS TAKE NO ACTION, One of Pair Injured In 
Gun Battle Dead; Other Is Patient"

   At noon today no action had been taken by Nelson County authorities in the death 
of Forrest Truslow, which occurred yesterday at 10 o'clock in University Hospital.  
He had been wounded on Saturday night near Greenfield allegedly by Alex Campbell who 
is now a patient at the hospital recovering from wounds in the abdomen said to have 
been inflicted by Truslow.
   It is known here that Nelson County authorities called here yesterday to take back 
to that place a Negro man named Walter Williams wanted on a bad check charge but as 
far as can be learned, no visit was made to the hospital.
   A Waynesboro undertaker, George S. Etter, called yesterday at 5:40 P. M. for the 
body of Truslow and it was said to had been sent by the father of the dead man, whose 
age was 23.  Truslow was the son of Austin Truslow and Lilly Bowling Truslow.  His 
death came after infection arising from wounds in the right chest and lung, the heart 
and intestinal region.  His funeral will be held in Greenfield tomorrow at 3:30.
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March 2, 1933 (Headlines) "Still No Action In Truslow Death"

   At 1 o'clock today no action had yet been taken in the alleged murder of Forrest 
Truslow, who will be buried this afternoon at Greenfield, Nelson County, as a result 
of a gun battle with Alex Campbell there Saturday.
   Campbell is a patient at University Hospital with five bullet bounds, there lodged 
in his body.  Although, Nelson County officers have been in Charlottesville since the 
shooting, they have not visited the hospital.  It is said his discharge is not expected 
for some days.
   Truslow's body was removed from University Hospital Tuesday afternoon by a 
Waynesboro undertaker.  He had died as a result of chest wound supposedly inflicted 
by Campbell.
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March 19, 1933 (Alex Campbell's death certificate)
Alex Campbell's death certificate stated that he died on March 19, 1933 as a result of 
gun shot wounds. 
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