Charleston Daily Mail November 23, 1931 page 1
EIGHT ARRESTED IN KILLING OF OFFICER
Negroes Seized Following Constable's Death; Companion Wounded
RAINELLE, Nov. 23 - A constable was dead, his companion was critically hurt and eight Negroes were under arrest today following the shooting at Leslie near here yesterday.
Constable Joe H. Myles, 48 years old, was shot to death and Jack Brown, 28 years old, his companion, hurt shortly after they left a Negro dance where they attempted to quiet revelry.
Tom Jackson, Negro, was in the Greenbrier county jail at Lewisburg charged with murder, and George Banks, Negro, was in the Lewisburg jail, held as an accessory. Four men and two women were held in the jail as material witnesses.
State police said a short time before the shouting Myles arrested Jackson on a charge of drunkenness but released him on his own recognizance pending disposition of another time. Myles and Brown then went to the dance to quiet the revelry, police said. In the meantime, Jackson obtained a shotgun and soon after the constable and his companion left the dance, they were shot.
At a hospital here, physicians said Brown's chances for recovery were slight.
Myles is survived by his mother; his widow and eight children, Harry, Tip, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, J. H. Jr., Helen, and Virginia. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, Dr. W. E. Myles, of White Sulphur, T.A. Myles, assistant prosecuting attorney of Fayette county; George Myles, of Fayetteville, John Myles of Sewell mountain, and Mrs. Leslie Burns of Crawley. The funeral services were to be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the old home on Sewell Mountain, under charge of the Masonic lodge, of which Myles was a member.
EIGHT ARRESTED IN KILLING OF OFFICER
Negroes Seized Following Constable's Death; Companion Wounded
RAINELLE, Nov. 23 - A constable was dead, his companion was critically hurt and eight Negroes were under arrest today following the shooting at Leslie near here yesterday.
Constable Joe H. Myles, 48 years old, was shot to death and Jack Brown, 28 years old, his companion, hurt shortly after they left a Negro dance where they attempted to quiet revelry.
Tom Jackson, Negro, was in the Greenbrier county jail at Lewisburg charged with murder, and George Banks, Negro, was in the Lewisburg jail, held as an accessory. Four men and two women were held in the jail as material witnesses.
State police said a short time before the shouting Myles arrested Jackson on a charge of drunkenness but released him on his own recognizance pending disposition of another time. Myles and Brown then went to the dance to quiet the revelry, police said. In the meantime, Jackson obtained a shotgun and soon after the constable and his companion left the dance, they were shot.
At a hospital here, physicians said Brown's chances for recovery were slight.
Myles is survived by his mother; his widow and eight children, Harry, Tip, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, J. H. Jr., Helen, and Virginia. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, Dr. W. E. Myles, of White Sulphur, T.A. Myles, assistant prosecuting attorney of Fayette county; George Myles, of Fayetteville, John Myles of Sewell mountain, and Mrs. Leslie Burns of Crawley. The funeral services were to be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the old home on Sewell Mountain, under charge of the Masonic lodge, of which Myles was a member.
Charleston Daily Mail November 23, 1931 page 1
EIGHT ARRESTED IN KILLING OF OFFICER
Negroes Seized Following Constable's Death; Companion Wounded
RAINELLE, Nov. 23 - A constable was dead, his companion was critically hurt and eight Negroes were under arrest today following the shooting at Leslie near here yesterday.
Constable Joe H. Myles, 48 years old, was shot to death and Jack Brown, 28 years old, his companion, hurt shortly after they left a Negro dance where they attempted to quiet revelry.
Tom Jackson, Negro, was in the Greenbrier county jail at Lewisburg charged with murder, and George Banks, Negro, was in the Lewisburg jail, held as an accessory. Four men and two women were held in the jail as material witnesses.
State police said a short time before the shouting Myles arrested Jackson on a charge of drunkenness but released him on his own recognizance pending disposition of another time. Myles and Brown then went to the dance to quiet the revelry, police said. In the meantime, Jackson obtained a shotgun and soon after the constable and his companion left the dance, they were shot.
At a hospital here, physicians said Brown's chances for recovery were slight.
Myles is survived by his mother; his widow and eight children, Harry, Tip, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, J. H. Jr., Helen, and Virginia. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, Dr. W. E. Myles, of White Sulphur, T.A. Myles, assistant prosecuting attorney of Fayette county; George Myles, of Fayetteville, John Myles of Sewell mountain, and Mrs. Leslie Burns of Crawley. The funeral services were to be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the old home on Sewell Mountain, under charge of the Masonic lodge, of which Myles was a member.
EIGHT ARRESTED IN KILLING OF OFFICER
Negroes Seized Following Constable's Death; Companion Wounded
RAINELLE, Nov. 23 - A constable was dead, his companion was critically hurt and eight Negroes were under arrest today following the shooting at Leslie near here yesterday.
Constable Joe H. Myles, 48 years old, was shot to death and Jack Brown, 28 years old, his companion, hurt shortly after they left a Negro dance where they attempted to quiet revelry.
Tom Jackson, Negro, was in the Greenbrier county jail at Lewisburg charged with murder, and George Banks, Negro, was in the Lewisburg jail, held as an accessory. Four men and two women were held in the jail as material witnesses.
State police said a short time before the shouting Myles arrested Jackson on a charge of drunkenness but released him on his own recognizance pending disposition of another time. Myles and Brown then went to the dance to quiet the revelry, police said. In the meantime, Jackson obtained a shotgun and soon after the constable and his companion left the dance, they were shot.
At a hospital here, physicians said Brown's chances for recovery were slight.
Myles is survived by his mother; his widow and eight children, Harry, Tip, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, J. H. Jr., Helen, and Virginia. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, Dr. W. E. Myles, of White Sulphur, T.A. Myles, assistant prosecuting attorney of Fayette county; George Myles, of Fayetteville, John Myles of Sewell mountain, and Mrs. Leslie Burns of Crawley. The funeral services were to be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the old home on Sewell Mountain, under charge of the Masonic lodge, of which Myles was a member.
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