NEGRO RUNS AMUCK
FINALLY SHOT DEAD
TWO PERSONS KILLED
HAWKINS (Texas), July 14.
A wealthy negro land owner, W. D. Register, ran amuck today and shot dead his wife and a white man and wounded three others before he himself was shot dead by a petrol station attendant.
Register, who owns several oil wells, first killed his wife with a rifle. He then critically injured a inegro farm' employee and marched along the highway where he encountered a white farmer driving cows home. Register shot him dead and, continuing on his way, met another negro, whom he wounded. He then fired on a passing motor-car containing a white man and his wife, shattering the former's arm and killing a dog.
A group of men, all armed, then barricaded the road. Register opened fire, but the first shot of a petrol station attendant who was among the barricade party killed him instantly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1938, Page 9
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