By the Associated Press
New Bern, N.C., Jan. 4—Leon H. White, a farmer of Pollocksville, a small community near here, is in a local hospital with bullet wounds in his neck and left hand said to have been inflicted today by J. Roy Manning, deputy United States marshal, when he went to White’s home this morning to serve a warrant on him charging violation of the federal prohibition laws.
Manning, against whom no charges had been brought up until late tonight, declared he shot White only after the farmer had taken a pistol from a drawer of a table in his home with indications of shooting.
In the hospital here White said tonight that he did not draw a pistol on the deputy marshal and there was not even one in his house. The deputy shot him twice, he said, when he turned to get a cigarette from off the table.
White will recover from his injuries, according to his physician.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Saturday, Jan. 5, 1924
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