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...SHELBY DEATON...
Saner, how; Hamilton, 2; Irving, 3; Moyer, 4; Morgan, 5; Brownlee, 6; Ehni, 7; Deaton, stroke; Magee, coxaswin...
...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...
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...