Asheville, Nov. 20—Federal authorities of Asheville and surrounding counties were tonight declared to be closing in on the two whiskey blockaders who late yesterday wounded Prohibition Officers Ben Draper and Will Owens when the officers approached a still said to have been operated by the assailants.
Officer Draper, who was at first thought to have been fatally injured, was reported tonight to be resting comfortably at the Brevard Hospital, to which he was rushed from Old Toxaway in Transylvania county, near which place the trouble occurred, and it is said that he will probably recover. Two bullets from a high-powered rifle entered his body, one in his shoulder and the other in the side.
Owens was shot once, the bullet entering his side, but inflicting only minor injuries, and he was reported this afternoon as having joined the posse which is searching for the escaped blockaders.
From page 6 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 22, 1924
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