CLERGYMAN SHOT.
ALSO AIEAbBER OF CONGREGATION. A YOUTH’S CRIME. IV CABLE—PEEBB ASSOCIATION—CnPYiIIiIHT. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. The Rev. John Moss was exhorting an open-air congregation of mountaineers at Aforganstown, Kentucky, when a rifle- shot was heard, and Mos;s dropped dead with a bullet in his breast. On a second shot: being fired, Airs Robinson, who was sitting in the front row, toppled over dead, and the meeting hurriedly closed. Next day Clifford Wilson, aged 16, was arrested. He, confessed that he believed: Moss was a disguised prohibition detective and decided to shoot him.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1926, Page 10
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93CLERGYMAN SHOT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1926, Page 10
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