In the winter of 1905, Posseman John Carver, a male officer, was on a raid in Cocke County, Tennessee, when he was shot and killed. The events leading to his death began when a federal posse, including Carver, discovered a 70-gallon still just over the state line in Haywood County, North Carolina. At the still, the posse arrested one of the operators, a man named Wilson Price.
Following the initial arrest, Posseman Carver and another posseman, Oscar Hopkins, were dispatched to the nearby
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