Show I DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED < DESPfiRATE TIGHT BETWEEN OmOERS AND DESPERADOES Over Three Hundred Shots Fired Hi j I the Engagement Which Occtined L I A Kentucky I Whlteflburg Ky April lTwo men Were killed and two wounded in a light between Sheriff John W Wright and r bin deputies on one side and desperadoes despera-does who robbed and murdered Mrs Jemima Hall and her son The fight occurred on the mountain top between Booncs Fork and Millstone creek Wright and his posse started out several sev-eral months ago to capture tho gang who cruelly tortured the aged widow I and after securing her money murdered mur-dered her and her son and burned her body In the little hut In which she lived Yesterday John and Morgan Reynolds Rey-nolds Isaac and Creed Porter and George Newsorrte were located by tho posse In a rendezvous on top of the mountain Morgan Reynolds New som6 and Isaac Porter went away and I while they were gone the officers t6n 1 In number opened fire on Creed Porter and John Reynolds The desperadoes I des-peradoes replied with rifles and ic volvera and more than 300 shots wore exchanged I John Reynolds received a serlouo If not fatal wound In the left shoulder and retreated leading Porter alone The latters ammunition soon gave out and he too fled Of the posse Willie Wright aged IS i us killed by a steel bullet whloh i passed through his abdomen and Isaac Milliard aged 21 was shot through I I the heart A third man named Os j j I I borne was struck In the right leg and severely hurt Young Wright who was killed In the first fire Joined the posse about a month ago to avenge the murder of his father W S Wright whom the gang assassinated about a year ago The firing was heard for a distance of thirteen thir-teen miles It was at first heard that the posse had been defeated and Gov Beokham was telegraphed to send troops to capture the gang I I |