Deputy Cloninger of
Iredell County Shot
Statesville, Aug. 4—Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Cloninger of
Mooresville, this county, last afternoon at 4 o’clock was shot and, it is
believed, mortally wounded while trying to arrest Conner, a notorious negro
near the negro camp meeting grounds at Morris school house.
Trouble had been brewing there since Saturday and yesterday
afternoon the officers were notified of drunken orgies and shooting scrapes
going on in the woods back of the camp meeting grounds. Lloyd Cloninger, Chief
of Police Furr and Assistant Brown left for the scene of the shooting.
Cloninger, on arriving, went towards Conner, for whom he had a warrant, but the
negro ordered the officer back, at the same moment producing his gun and firing
at the officers, burning Cloninger’s coat sleeve with the first shot. Cloninger
then fired twice and the negro turned and ran, falling about 150 yards away
with two bullets in him. At this moment another, as yet unidentified, negro ran
up, shooting Cloninger in the back, the bullet passing clear through the body.
When the officer whirled around to face his new antagonist he was shot again in
the chest, right over the heart. Shooting then became general, fully 50 shots
being fired before friends could place Deputy Cloninger in a car and rush him
her to the hospital, where small hope is held out for his recovery.
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