Cookeville Press April 24, 1930
Orville A Moss, 43, father of five living children, was killed Tuesday night by bullets supposed to have been fired from the gun of a still operative in Jackson County. Beale Warren, 31, brother of the Sheriff, was perhaps fatally injured at the same time. He is at the City hospital in critical condition.
Four men are being held in jail here, pending the outcome of an investigation. [section redacted] Moss and Warren sustained their wounds when they attempted to halt a car....the officers jumped on either side of the light auto and that action precipitated the shooting. Warren and Moss fell, and Zeb Warren, who was in his car near the shooting, hastily arrested one suspect. Another suspect made a getaway and was caught Wednesday morning near the scene of the tragedy and brought to Cookeville....
The raid was conducted by a US Prohibition agent. He deputized the three officers to assist him in the raid. They left Cookeville on the fateful trip at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred some time between 7 and 7:15. Zeb Warren rushed the injured men to the City hospital and Plaxco accosted the prisoners. One of the suspects was alleged to have had a sack filled with a quantity of liquor. He was handcuffed at the time of the shooting.
At the hospital, Moss was given a hasty examination and doctors pronounced no hope for his life. He was shot in the side...his loss of blood was great....He died at 10 o'clock after making a statement to his chief about the fray.
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Funeral services will be held for Moss at Baxter from the Methodist church this afternoon at one o'clock. Interment will take place at the Baxter cemetery. Moss is survived by his widow, five children, Mrs. Essie Jared, Velma, William, Ruth and Christine, his mother and father, six brothers and six sisters.
He had been known as an unusual upholder of the law and an officer who felt his duty a sacred instinct. He is the second officer in Sheriff Warren's regime to die in the execution of his duty, the other being C L Brown, who was killed in a car wreck in January.
The scene of the tragic episode in law enforcement is near the Putnam/Jackson county lines, in the community surrounding Lee Vickers' and Byers' stores. It has been noted as a place not frequented by revenue officers since the death of Bud Lynch some ten years ago, who was shot in the back and died from the wound. The tragedy has caused widespread attention and opened avenues for bitter attack on the liquor traffic in the Upper Cumberland section.
Orville A Moss, 43, father of five living children, was killed Tuesday night by bullets supposed to have been fired from the gun of a still operative in Jackson County. Beale Warren, 31, brother of the Sheriff, was perhaps fatally injured at the same time. He is at the City hospital in critical condition.
Four men are being held in jail here, pending the outcome of an investigation. [section redacted] Moss and Warren sustained their wounds when they attempted to halt a car....the officers jumped on either side of the light auto and that action precipitated the shooting. Warren and Moss fell, and Zeb Warren, who was in his car near the shooting, hastily arrested one suspect. Another suspect made a getaway and was caught Wednesday morning near the scene of the tragedy and brought to Cookeville....
The raid was conducted by a US Prohibition agent. He deputized the three officers to assist him in the raid. They left Cookeville on the fateful trip at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred some time between 7 and 7:15. Zeb Warren rushed the injured men to the City hospital and Plaxco accosted the prisoners. One of the suspects was alleged to have had a sack filled with a quantity of liquor. He was handcuffed at the time of the shooting.
At the hospital, Moss was given a hasty examination and doctors pronounced no hope for his life. He was shot in the side...his loss of blood was great....He died at 10 o'clock after making a statement to his chief about the fray.
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Funeral services will be held for Moss at Baxter from the Methodist church this afternoon at one o'clock. Interment will take place at the Baxter cemetery. Moss is survived by his widow, five children, Mrs. Essie Jared, Velma, William, Ruth and Christine, his mother and father, six brothers and six sisters.
He had been known as an unusual upholder of the law and an officer who felt his duty a sacred instinct. He is the second officer in Sheriff Warren's regime to die in the execution of his duty, the other being C L Brown, who was killed in a car wreck in January.
The scene of the tragic episode in law enforcement is near the Putnam/Jackson county lines, in the community surrounding Lee Vickers' and Byers' stores. It has been noted as a place not frequented by revenue officers since the death of Bud Lynch some ten years ago, who was shot in the back and died from the wound. The tragedy has caused widespread attention and opened avenues for bitter attack on the liquor traffic in the Upper Cumberland section.
Cookeville Press April 24, 1930
Orville A Moss, 43, father of five living children, was killed Tuesday night by bullets supposed to have been fired from the gun of a still operative in Jackson County. Beale Warren, 31, brother of the Sheriff, was perhaps fatally injured at the same time. He is at the City hospital in critical condition.
Four men are being held in jail here, pending the outcome of an investigation. [section redacted] Moss and Warren sustained their wounds when they attempted to halt a car....the officers jumped on either side of the light auto and that action precipitated the shooting. Warren and Moss fell, and Zeb Warren, who was in his car near the shooting, hastily arrested one suspect. Another suspect made a getaway and was caught Wednesday morning near the scene of the tragedy and brought to Cookeville....
The raid was conducted by a US Prohibition agent. He deputized the three officers to assist him in the raid. They left Cookeville on the fateful trip at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred some time between 7 and 7:15. Zeb Warren rushed the injured men to the City hospital and Plaxco accosted the prisoners. One of the suspects was alleged to have had a sack filled with a quantity of liquor. He was handcuffed at the time of the shooting.
At the hospital, Moss was given a hasty examination and doctors pronounced no hope for his life. He was shot in the side...his loss of blood was great....He died at 10 o'clock after making a statement to his chief about the fray.
[sections redacted]
Funeral services will be held for Moss at Baxter from the Methodist church this afternoon at one o'clock. Interment will take place at the Baxter cemetery. Moss is survived by his widow, five children, Mrs. Essie Jared, Velma, William, Ruth and Christine, his mother and father, six brothers and six sisters.
He had been known as an unusual upholder of the law and an officer who felt his duty a sacred instinct. He is the second officer in Sheriff Warren's regime to die in the execution of his duty, the other being C L Brown, who was killed in a car wreck in January.
The scene of the tragic episode in law enforcement is near the Putnam/Jackson county lines, in the community surrounding Lee Vickers' and Byers' stores. It has been noted as a place not frequented by revenue officers since the death of Bud Lynch some ten years ago, who was shot in the back and died from the wound. The tragedy has caused widespread attention and opened avenues for bitter attack on the liquor traffic in the Upper Cumberland section.
Orville A Moss, 43, father of five living children, was killed Tuesday night by bullets supposed to have been fired from the gun of a still operative in Jackson County. Beale Warren, 31, brother of the Sheriff, was perhaps fatally injured at the same time. He is at the City hospital in critical condition.
Four men are being held in jail here, pending the outcome of an investigation. [section redacted] Moss and Warren sustained their wounds when they attempted to halt a car....the officers jumped on either side of the light auto and that action precipitated the shooting. Warren and Moss fell, and Zeb Warren, who was in his car near the shooting, hastily arrested one suspect. Another suspect made a getaway and was caught Wednesday morning near the scene of the tragedy and brought to Cookeville....
The raid was conducted by a US Prohibition agent. He deputized the three officers to assist him in the raid. They left Cookeville on the fateful trip at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred some time between 7 and 7:15. Zeb Warren rushed the injured men to the City hospital and Plaxco accosted the prisoners. One of the suspects was alleged to have had a sack filled with a quantity of liquor. He was handcuffed at the time of the shooting.
At the hospital, Moss was given a hasty examination and doctors pronounced no hope for his life. He was shot in the side...his loss of blood was great....He died at 10 o'clock after making a statement to his chief about the fray.
[sections redacted]
Funeral services will be held for Moss at Baxter from the Methodist church this afternoon at one o'clock. Interment will take place at the Baxter cemetery. Moss is survived by his widow, five children, Mrs. Essie Jared, Velma, William, Ruth and Christine, his mother and father, six brothers and six sisters.
He had been known as an unusual upholder of the law and an officer who felt his duty a sacred instinct. He is the second officer in Sheriff Warren's regime to die in the execution of his duty, the other being C L Brown, who was killed in a car wreck in January.
The scene of the tragic episode in law enforcement is near the Putnam/Jackson county lines, in the community surrounding Lee Vickers' and Byers' stores. It has been noted as a place not frequented by revenue officers since the death of Bud Lynch some ten years ago, who was shot in the back and died from the wound. The tragedy has caused widespread attention and opened avenues for bitter attack on the liquor traffic in the Upper Cumberland section.
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