Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-04 | Page 8 | Assassin Slays Pair in Church

ASSASSIN SLAYS PAiR P AJR IN GR CHURCH C Evangelist E and and Ch Oi Singer Believed Victims of Bootleggers MORGANTOWN TOWN Ky Au Aus Aug 4 4 By The Th Associated An iresa Pres evangelist and a 0 a choir singer tinier are dead shot as they sang fane the open open- openIng opening openIng Ing hymn at revival services services-by by an unidentified ass assassin who fired through tho window v of the county school house where the meeting was In progress The Rev W V A Moss Mo s 32 toppled from his pulpit dead and Mrs rs Jerome Robinson 30 20 died two hours after the th shooting Tuesday night at the Eary school 12 miles from here J I D Young 70 suf- suf suffered suf a a slight scalp wound and ond others In la the meeting narrowly es escaped aped Mrs tr R Robinsons Robinson's four mother children saw aw w their mother fall tall One man was vas arrest early Tuesday night and Sheriff Luther Tuck Tucle of Butler county w was s at the th head of 0 a- a posse posse poss for tor a second man Clifford Wilson 30 a fugitive since Ince his escape from jail here I a year ago aeo was arrested at his home horn on the statement ofa of year old year old girl that he h had bad Iad fired tho shots bot The Time girl eirl fainted tainted when the tho tiring firing began and she was WIlS un un- un unable un-ablo un able to give gl additional details son Wll-son WI- WI WIson 11 son who was Wanted on a boot boot- bootlegging bootlegging legging charge denied the shoot shoot- shooting shooting ing The Thi slaying created such excite excitement ment among the th persons In the audience that no ono one was able t td 1 say ho how many shots were fired County officials laid the trouble to whose Ire If the he evan evane- evane list e- e list had aroused by his campaIgn against Illicit whisky and his hi ac- ac ac tI s In aiding enforcement It was learned that th tho meeting was disturbed Sunday night by on tho outside Two men dispersed the th trouble makers maker Souls some of ot whom are said sald to have ve threatened to corn come come back and clean out tho the whole crowd nn