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WEALTHY NEGRO RUNS AMOK IN TEXAS WIFE & WHITE MAN SHOT DEAD. ASSASSIN SHARES SAME FATE. HAWKINS (Texas), July 14. A wealthy negro landowner, W. D. Register, ran amok today and shot dead his wife and a white man and wounded three others before he himself was shot dead by a petrol station attendant. Register, who owns several oil wells, first killed his wife with a rifle. He then critically injured a negro farm employee and marched along the highway where he encountered a white farmer driving cows home. Register shot him dead and, continuing on his way. met another negro whom he wounded. He then fired on a passing motorcar containing a white man and his wife, shattering the former’s arm and killing the dog. A group of men, all armed, then barricaded the road. Register opened fire, but the first shot of the petrol station attendant, who was among the barricade party, killed him instantly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 5
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