Raleigh, April 3—Rev. William S. Shacklette, the militant parson-chaplain who has been the central figure of the recent prison quasi-scandal, comes by his fighting qualities naturally, since he is a former navy man with an excellent record of service terminated only by a boiler explosion in which he was incapacitated for further service.
He was a hospital steward on board the U.S.S. Bennington when her boilers exploded in July, 1905. In that explosion Mr. Shacklette received injuries about the head which resulted in a nervous disease, won for him retirement under an act of Congress in April, 1908. He was placed upon the retired list as a hospital steward, to receive the rank and three-fourths sea pay of a pharmacist in the navy in lieu of $30 a month pension, which he was receiving at that time for the total disabilities received in the boiler explosion.
Prior to his appointment as chaplain, or prison welfare worker, Mr. Shacklette was welfare director for cotton mills in Burlington. There, according to his employers, he became involved in difficulties similar to those he seems to have stirred up here through criticism of company officers. According to some reports, he left that position by mutual consent some little time before he received his appointment by the state.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 3, 1926
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