The Daily-Times News, Burlington, N.C.
Monday, October 17, 1932
INVESTIGATION IN DUEL IS OPENED
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- (UP) -- Investigation was ordered today of a revolver duel in which a federal dry agent and a special sheriff's deputy killed each other in what was described as a heated argument over activities of the prohibition officers. The dead were: Prohibition Agent Frank A. Mather, 49, and Deputy Bluch (sic) Sayars, 57.
The pair met in a negro's cabin here Saturday night when local authorities went to the place to question the dry agents about their activities.
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The Lima News, Lima, Allen Co., OH, p. 9:
Officers Slay Each Other in Pistol Battle
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- AP -- Federal and county officers today sought more detailed information concerning a pistol fight which claimed the lives of a federal prohibition investigator and a Logan co. special deputy sheriff in a negro cabin late Saturday night.
Frank A. Mather, 49, prohibition investigator, working out of the Louisville office, and Bluch Soyars, 57, superintendent of the Russellville waterworks and a special deputy sheriff, were the principals in the fight. Soyars died an hour later and Mather succumbed on Sunday.
At a private hearing before County Judge J. W. Linton Sunday, it was decided the officers killed each other, and that they were the only ones who fired pistols in the cabin, which was being used by federal officers as a corral for prisoners taken in liquor raids in the county.
County Attorney John A. Whittaker said testimony at the preliminary hearing was that the local officers entered the cabin, found several white men and negroes there, and ordered them not to leave. Mather started toward the door, Soyars ordered him to halt, they scuffled, pulled pistols and killed each other.
In the confusion, eight prisoners taken in raids fled, but were rounded up Sunday.
Monday, October 17, 1932
INVESTIGATION IN DUEL IS OPENED
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- (UP) -- Investigation was ordered today of a revolver duel in which a federal dry agent and a special sheriff's deputy killed each other in what was described as a heated argument over activities of the prohibition officers. The dead were: Prohibition Agent Frank A. Mather, 49, and Deputy Bluch (sic) Sayars, 57.
The pair met in a negro's cabin here Saturday night when local authorities went to the place to question the dry agents about their activities.
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The Lima News, Lima, Allen Co., OH, p. 9:
Officers Slay Each Other in Pistol Battle
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- AP -- Federal and county officers today sought more detailed information concerning a pistol fight which claimed the lives of a federal prohibition investigator and a Logan co. special deputy sheriff in a negro cabin late Saturday night.
Frank A. Mather, 49, prohibition investigator, working out of the Louisville office, and Bluch Soyars, 57, superintendent of the Russellville waterworks and a special deputy sheriff, were the principals in the fight. Soyars died an hour later and Mather succumbed on Sunday.
At a private hearing before County Judge J. W. Linton Sunday, it was decided the officers killed each other, and that they were the only ones who fired pistols in the cabin, which was being used by federal officers as a corral for prisoners taken in liquor raids in the county.
County Attorney John A. Whittaker said testimony at the preliminary hearing was that the local officers entered the cabin, found several white men and negroes there, and ordered them not to leave. Mather started toward the door, Soyars ordered him to halt, they scuffled, pulled pistols and killed each other.
In the confusion, eight prisoners taken in raids fled, but were rounded up Sunday.
The Daily-Times News, Burlington, N.C.
Monday, October 17, 1932
INVESTIGATION IN DUEL IS OPENED
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- (UP) -- Investigation was ordered today of a revolver duel in which a federal dry agent and a special sheriff's deputy killed each other in what was described as a heated argument over activities of the prohibition officers. The dead were: Prohibition Agent Frank A. Mather, 49, and Deputy Bluch (sic) Sayars, 57.
The pair met in a negro's cabin here Saturday night when local authorities went to the place to question the dry agents about their activities.
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The Lima News, Lima, Allen Co., OH, p. 9:
Officers Slay Each Other in Pistol Battle
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- AP -- Federal and county officers today sought more detailed information concerning a pistol fight which claimed the lives of a federal prohibition investigator and a Logan co. special deputy sheriff in a negro cabin late Saturday night.
Frank A. Mather, 49, prohibition investigator, working out of the Louisville office, and Bluch Soyars, 57, superintendent of the Russellville waterworks and a special deputy sheriff, were the principals in the fight. Soyars died an hour later and Mather succumbed on Sunday.
At a private hearing before County Judge J. W. Linton Sunday, it was decided the officers killed each other, and that they were the only ones who fired pistols in the cabin, which was being used by federal officers as a corral for prisoners taken in liquor raids in the county.
County Attorney John A. Whittaker said testimony at the preliminary hearing was that the local officers entered the cabin, found several white men and negroes there, and ordered them not to leave. Mather started toward the door, Soyars ordered him to halt, they scuffled, pulled pistols and killed each other.
In the confusion, eight prisoners taken in raids fled, but were rounded up Sunday.
Monday, October 17, 1932
INVESTIGATION IN DUEL IS OPENED
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- (UP) -- Investigation was ordered today of a revolver duel in which a federal dry agent and a special sheriff's deputy killed each other in what was described as a heated argument over activities of the prohibition officers. The dead were: Prohibition Agent Frank A. Mather, 49, and Deputy Bluch (sic) Sayars, 57.
The pair met in a negro's cabin here Saturday night when local authorities went to the place to question the dry agents about their activities.
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The Lima News, Lima, Allen Co., OH, p. 9:
Officers Slay Each Other in Pistol Battle
Russellville, Ky., Oct. 17 -- AP -- Federal and county officers today sought more detailed information concerning a pistol fight which claimed the lives of a federal prohibition investigator and a Logan co. special deputy sheriff in a negro cabin late Saturday night.
Frank A. Mather, 49, prohibition investigator, working out of the Louisville office, and Bluch Soyars, 57, superintendent of the Russellville waterworks and a special deputy sheriff, were the principals in the fight. Soyars died an hour later and Mather succumbed on Sunday.
At a private hearing before County Judge J. W. Linton Sunday, it was decided the officers killed each other, and that they were the only ones who fired pistols in the cabin, which was being used by federal officers as a corral for prisoners taken in liquor raids in the county.
County Attorney John A. Whittaker said testimony at the preliminary hearing was that the local officers entered the cabin, found several white men and negroes there, and ordered them not to leave. Mather started toward the door, Soyars ordered him to halt, they scuffled, pulled pistols and killed each other.
In the confusion, eight prisoners taken in raids fled, but were rounded up Sunday.
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