By the Associated Press
Kinston, N.C., April 5—Two men named Edwards and Williams respectively, were killed near here early today by Deputy Sheriff George Potter of Duplin county, according to a report received here tonight. The full names of the men were unknown.
Potter, according to the report, was plowing in a field about 20 miles from here when the men approached him.
“We have come to get your liver,” one of men is alleged to have said, and the pair produced knives, according to the report, and advanced on the deputy. Potter drew his pistol and fired twice, both men falling, and the wounds proving fatal almost immediately.
Potter, who also holds a commission as a federal prohibition officer, recently testified before a United States commissioner against Williams in a prohibition case. The dead men were brothers-in-law.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, April 6, 1924
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