Officers Shot Negro

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Nashville Banner
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Date of publication: 8/14/1933 0:00
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Officers Shoot Negro Tuscaloosa, Ala. Aug. 14-(AP-A – Negro was shot to death on a farm near here Sunday by two deputies called after he was reported to have threatened his employer. The officers. Harley Holeman and R. M. Pate, said the Negro, Jim Pruitt. advanced on them with a club as they approached him and resisted arrest. They said he was reported to have threatened H. R. Bambarger after an accusation of steal- ing chickens.