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John William Woods, a 30-year-old white male, was serving as a deputy sheriff in Ashley County, Arkansas, when his final call took him out to the tracks near White Station on October 17, 1913. He had gone to intercept a man who had walked away from a work crew. In the brief, volatile moments of the encounter, a shot was fired, and Woods fell mortally wounded—his end of watch recorded that Friday, the county’s quiet broken by the sound and the sudden scramble of witnesses and lawmen convergin ...Read More
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John William Woods
Male
Ashley
AR
1913-10-17
30
John
William Woods
11/13/2025
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