A Jacksonville policeman was off duty. He was sleeping in a room over his garage when he was awakened at 12:15 a. m, by a noise in his chicken coop. When he looked out of his window he saw a man walking to a Ford car. He ordered him to stop. After his sixth demand was not obeyed he fired just as the man was entering the car. The car shot down the alley with four bullets splintering the rear of the machine from the policeman's revolver. The first bullet missed the man walking to the automobile. It struck Jimmie Hurst, 20, an automobile mechanic living at No. 12 East Church street. Another bullet grazed Hurst's left side above the hip. The first one hit him in the left hip. One of the four bullets fired by the policeman as the car began speeding thru the alley to Ninth street, punctured the rear of the machine, split the upholstering and entered the seaman's [Ralph Bell] right side just above the waistline, went through the liver and stopped in his right lung. He died three hours afterwards.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday June 15, 1923 Page 2
A Jacksonville policeman was off duty. He was sleeping in a room over his garage when he was awakened at 12:15 a. m, by a noise in his chicken coop. When he looked out of his window he saw a man walking to a Ford car. He ordered him to stop. After his sixth demand was not obeyed he fired just as the man was entering the car. The car shot down the alley with four bullets splintering the rear of the machine from the policeman's revolver. The first bullet missed the man walking to the automobile. It struck Jimmie Hurst, 20, an automobile mechanic living at No. 12 East Church street. Another bullet grazed Hurst's left side above the hip. The first one hit him in the left hip. One of the four bullets fired by the policeman as the car began speeding thru the alley to Ninth street, punctured the rear of the machine, split the upholstering and entered the seaman's [Ralph Bell] right side just above the waistline, went through the liver and stopped in his right lung. He died three hours afterwards.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday June 15, 1923 Page 2
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