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Show T . , Fatal Shooting Unjustified, Says Official INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn.. June 11. (t.'.l;) - -Htmry L. Roberts, treasury department specitil agent of St. Paul, declared here today after an independent probe of the fatal shooting of Henry I Virkula by Emmett Whltt?, border customs agent, that e the action was "wholly unjustified un-justified and unwarranted." Virqula, a ll-year-old confectioner confec-tioner of Big Falls was shot down on the international highway some 15 miles south :f the Canadian border as - he, bis wife and their two children drove past 'White and a fellow agent whX) wen , on the lookout for rum smugglers. smug-glers. Whiti, who was nrrested, i charged with second degree manslaughter and held in lieu of $1,500 bond, contended tnt lie fired at the tiren on Virkuola's car only after the driver had r.r.'.ed to obey a ( command to halt. 1 4 |