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- Bob Lowe Shot Four Times At His New Place Near Lake City Early Sunday
Gunfire and violent death for a second consecutive week ended the midnight rambles of a group of Anderson County officers. This time, it was a gang of deputies and their victim was Bob Lowe, a roadhouse operator near Lake City. Lowe fell from four bullets in his body, a few steps from the doorway of his new roadhouse. The officers, previously warned to stay away by Lowe, were returning to Lake City from Clinton when the shooting took place. They said about 2 AM Sunday. Two of the deputies, Mitchell and Franklin Beach of Briceville, brothers, made bonds of $1, 000 each pending a hearing on manslaughter charges at 4 PM Friday before Squire J S Holt. Sheriff R A Smith said the officers surrendered to him. According to the story they told him, Lowe fired five shots at their car. They told the Sheriff they returned the fire and as Lowe died, he crumpled upon a .22 caliber pistol that figured in a triple slaying more than 15 years ago and for which he was sentenced to 25 years. The brothers, Deputy Clifford McGhee of Lake City, Levi Hawkins, and Carl Allen, driver of the car, had stopped at a spring near Lowe
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