tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22156824.post8167357403566723314..comments2024-01-25T06:55:55.041-05:00Comments on Hillbilly Savants: Sheriff Hutcheson gunned down on Hwy 33 BridgeEric Drummond Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10651674250848286847noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22156824.post-37312294232603032622010-06-21T14:23:48.685-04:002010-06-21T14:23:48.685-04:00Bunch was killed a year before Hutchenson was shot...Bunch was killed a year before Hutchenson was shot. <br /><br /><br /> The sheriff said Hopson named Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean, 18, escaped Tennessee convicts, as his companions and declared that "McCoig shot and killed Sheriff Hutchison."<br /> _______________<br /> New Tazewell, Tenn, Dec 7 --AP-- Mountain riflemen joined officers in the hunt today for three gunmen -- two identified as escaped convicts--who looted a New Tazewell bank of $1,000, killed a sheriff and woounded a posseman.<br /> Officers said two of the fugitives were Gus McCoig, 22, and Pete Dean, 18, who kidnaped a deputy warden in a daring break from the state penitentiary at Nashville Tuesday.<br /> Sheriff L. B. Hutchinson of Union county was fatally wounded in an attempt to halt the gunmen at a highway bridge as they sped from the scene of the robbery yesterday. He died in Knoxville hospital.<br /> Surprised by a posse in a lonely mountain cabin near here last night, the bandits shot their way out and apparently escaped unscathed. Leonard Barret of Morristown, Tenn., was wounded in the shoulder. Possemen combed the rugged mountains of upper east Tennessee searching for them.<br /> McCoig, Dean and George Wilbur Moss escaped from the penitentiary by kidnaping Deputy Warden Ed Conners and forcing him at gunpoint to drive them out. Later they freed him unharmed, but kept his car.<br /> Moss was captured at Bunchtown Thursday.<br /> East Tennessee officers recalled that McCoig was an associate of Clarence Bunch, slain leader of a gang that terrorize this section last year.Anginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22156824.post-61861194213256667762008-02-05T09:46:00.000-05:002008-02-05T09:46:00.000-05:00What a terrific post. I have copied many of the Ne...What a terrific post. I have copied many of the Newspaper headlines from the Old Knoxville Journal on the subject. Your page and links are a great resource for investigating this particular piece of East Tennessee History. Great work, and Thanks You.<BR/>Dan McCoig<BR/>aka<BR/>DanTraveling.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14084910839743104182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22156824.post-21786567765572134272008-02-04T15:28:00.000-05:002008-02-04T15:28:00.000-05:00That's a pretty cool piece of history. During the...That's a pretty cool piece of history. During the summer I cruise up to Sharps Chapel most every weekend and cross that bridge.<BR/><BR/>Eeeerie.Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740513813386444402noreply@blogger.com