Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Sheriff Walter Deal Dies after Shooting, 1921, Pike Co.
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Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 13, 1921

Sheriff Dies Of Wounds

   Pikeville, Ky., Jan. 13 - Shot three days ago, it is charged, by John
Keen, now in Jail here, Deputy Sheriff Walter Deal died last night at his
home in Elkhorn City.  Deal had placed Keen under arrest for disorderly
conduct, it is charged, and after taking the prisoner's revolver told him to
go home.  Keen turned a few paces away, it is charged, and drew an automatic
he had concealed and fired several time.

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