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Show fePUTY KILLED; THREE NEGROES SHOT: 'MACON STORES ! SHUT DOWN TO AMRiOTING Negro Shoots Officer in 1 Back, Precipitating General Firing !P00L ROOM RAIDED j Groups of Whites Fire on Blacks Following Killing I MACON, Georgia. July 2?. I Spasmodic firing at negroes and a! search by hundreds of persons head- ' ed by sheriff's deputies for "Cooky" Glover, a negro, followed the killing 1 of Walter C Byrd. a deputy sheriff land the wounding of three negroes I here toulght In a shooting affray In a ; negro pool room. The police urged nil negroes to go 1 to theft homes after rescuing one from n down town crowd and seeing others' Bhot at. and it appeared that a race , 'riot which police feared, had been ; averted. Th killing lollowrsf trie entry Into the pool room of Deputy Byrd. accom- 1 j panied by Deputies Kurnos Raley and ' Will Jakes, the latter a negro. In Bearch of a negro criminal. Glover was accused o? having shot Byrd in the back Firing became general and when the smoke cleared away. Byrd was dying and three negroes were 1 wounded A number of arrests were made In 1 the pool room and search was begun that led to the Okmulgee river bot- j t'.ms Later police und deputies went through the negro sections looking f.r 'Glover, who had escaped from the pool I room by leaping through a window. The pool room Is on a block OCCU- I ! ple-1 almost entirely by neero business I placea and lodging houses and they j . were closed up by police orders nnd all negroes forbidden to show them- j jelv B in the block as a matter of precaution. |