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Show KILLED BY AND OFEICEU. Fatal Shooting Scrape In Town of Republic, Wash, ' "' Republic, Wash., Dec. 6 Joe Williams Wil-liams was shot this morning by Deputy Depu-ty Sheriff W. T. ,.Swan. Williams had charge of the gambling games in the Butte saloon. . He had been drinking heavily and was quarrelsome- He went into another saloon and was flourishing a pistol. Swan wrenched it' from his hand, when Williams,'-who is a powerful power-ful man, threw the officer ten feet. . Swan then fired Williams' pistol and the ball passed through., the body near the heart. The wounded man grappled with the officer, wrested the pistol from him and was about to fire when his strength left him and ie fell back and expired. A coroner's Jury, fully exonerated exon-erated the officer. V , |