Murphy, July 24—Shot down by Josh Crisp, federal prohibition officer, as he stood in the doorway of his home, Cecil McClure, 17-year-old Tomotia youth, fell with his mother’s arms about him as she clung to the gun he held in his hands, in an effort to prevent bloodshed, according to belated reports reaching here today. Young McClure died a few hours after the shooting.
The shooting, which occurred late Wednesday in a very remote section of Cherokee County, has caused a flood of resentment against the action f the officer to sweep over this section and has increase the indignation felt as a result of the recent shooting affair near Bryson City in which officers fired upon the chauffeur of a prominent Georgian.
With Crisp at the time of the raid on the McClure home was Charlie Branton, who led the officers that fired upon the automobile of C. K. C. Ansley’s chauffeur, near Bryson City, and Jake Deweese, another officer.
“I have been informed that the shooting was almost without provocation,” Solicitor Groves C. Davis stated tonight. He added that at his suggestion the bond for the officer who did the shooting was fixed at $5,000 by Sheriff Morrow of Cherokee County. Crisp made this bond and is at liberty, pending action by the Cherokee County grand jury which meets in early August. Later, the case is expected to be transferred to federal court.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 27, 1926
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