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- The Smithfield Herald, June 30, 1905
Geo. C. Bass, a rural free delivery mail carrier, was shot to death this morning between 1 and 2 o?clock seven miles from here, while assisting the sheriff and his deputies to capture William Henry Smith, and escaped convict from the chain gang of Wayne county. Smith is a notorious, desperate and violent criminal, and the sheriff had several deputies and assistants, all well arme, to assist him. An examination shows that Bass was riddled with buckshot from the head down; several entered the back of hs head. He died in about two minutes after it was found that he was shot. It all occurred in the dark and several hosts were fired. It seems that Smith was up and apprending trouble, it is not known who nor how many were there to assist him in resisting the attack of the officers.
At present it is not know who did the fatal shooting, whether it wa an accidental shot by one of the hsheriff?s posse or by some one stationed outside of the negro hut to prevent the arrest of Smith. ? Dunn Special, June 23rd, to Raliegh Post.
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1871 - 1905 (33 years)