William Everette Wheeler, male, age 29, was the chief deputy sheriff of Independence County when he was fatally shot on January 2, 1935, near Almond, Arkansas. He and Sheriff J. R. Engles had set out to serve an arrest warrant after a gas drive-off at a station in nearby Rosie led authorities to a rough hideout in the Brock Mountain area. Wheeler went to the rear of the house while others approached the front; in the confusion that followed, the gunman burst from the dwelling and opened fire at
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