Word: deaton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week tall, skinny Isachar Combs and Patrolman Lewis Deaton locked up three men. One of them had a pint of moonshine which he said he had got from Bryan Middleton, 48, who ran a restaurant in Evarts. Combs and Deaton got a search warrant and walked over to Middleton's restaurant...
...Deaton later recalled it: "Middleton came out just as we got there. He drew two guns and shot. I threw one on him and the shooting really began. I shot eight shots, Combs ten shots. There were 33 in all." Middleton died with ten bullets in him. Deaton, wounded slightly in the hip, was taken to the hospital...
...August afternoon in 1938, two brothers named Lewis and Lee Combs went to a political meeting in Breathitt County. Sheriff Walter Deaton, who was with them, stayed downstairs while the Combs boys went up to the meeting room. The Sheriff heard shots, got pinked in the left forearm. Down the stairs tumbled the Combs boys. Lewis was wounded in the back with a .45; Lee was dying. Five men, including Cousin (and county jailer) William Combs, a State Senator and the circuit court clerk were arrested, all were cleared...
Last Feb. 5, Deputy Sheriff Jerry Combs threatened to arrest Brown Howard and his brother Tom, who were raising Cain at a relief office in Jackson, the county seat. One of the Howard boys shot Jerry Combs dead. Three weeks later, Lewis Combs met Sheriff Deaton's one-armed son, Deputy Sheriff Fred Deaton. The Saturday crowd at the Jackson post office saw Lewis Combs pull his gun, saw Fred Deaton do the same with his lone right hand. Lewis Combs wounded Fred Deaton, who killed Lewis Combs. Last March 16, a bus carrying Deputy Sheriff Wilson Deaton passed...
...Brown Howard fled to the hills, a posse after them. The posse came back without the Howards, who sent word by their mother that they would surrender in a few days. Seven days later they gave themselves up to High Sheriff Walter Deaton, who clapped them in jail until court comes March...