Greenville News, Page 1
Tuesday, April 22, 1930

SHOOTING OCCURS ON MAIN STREET
MAIN STREET IN HENDERSONVILLE BATTLEGROUND RESULT FEDERAL RAIDS

HENDERSONVILLE, Apr 21 -- (AP) -- Clarence G. Howard, under contract to serve as automobile driver for Federal prohibition officers while making raids, was shot and critically wounded by a man said to have been Fred Swartz, implicated in alleged liquor law violations, a few minutes after 9 o'clock this morning. The shooting occured on Main Street here.

Howard and Fanning Saltz who, although not an agent, assists officers in making raids, were waiting on the red light to change when they were attacked by Swartz who shot Howard in the face below the bridge of the nose. Swartz is said to have struck Saltz over the head with the latters gun, which he took from him cutting a gash in his head.
Swartz surrendered. In the absence of Sheriff W.A. Garren, Roe Sentell, jailer, placed Swartz under arrest after he had given up his two guns. Upon his return, Sheriff Garren examined the guns, one being a .38 caliber colt, a short pistol of the "detective" model. It had only one empty chamber. The other weapon had not been
discharged.

Howard and Swartz it is declared, figured in a raid in the Catshead section, the home of Swartz, last Friday night when a 65 gallon still was seized and destroyed and 26 gallons of whiskey found. Swartz was among those implicated but escaped.
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Greenville News, Page 1
Wednesday, April 23, 1930

HOWARD INQUEST FRIDAY MORNING
FORMER GREENVILLE MAN SHOT IN CAR AT HENDERSONVILLE, SUCCUMBS

ASHEVILLE, N.C., Apr. 22 -- (AP) -- Clarence G. Howard, 28, chauffeur for the Federal Prohibition
Raiding Squad at Hendersonville, died in a Hendersonville hospital at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon as the result of a pistol wound inflicted Monday on the Main Street of that city by Fred Swartz, alleged prohibition violator.
A charge of murder will be lodged against Swartz tomorrow, it was announced by Sheriff W.A. Garren of Henderson County. An inquest will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning.
Howard, whose home is at Tuxedo and who is survived by his widow and their two children, was conscious until early this morning, despite the fact that the bullet struck him in the head. Swartz was alleged to have stepped from the Main Street curb to the running board of the car driven by Howard as it stopped for a traffic
light, fired a bullet into Howard's head, struck Fanning Salts, a prohibition officer on the headwith the butt of his gun, disarmed Saltz and then to have run to the county jail carrying both pistols.
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Clarence was married to Gertrude Metcalf and had two children, James L. Howard & Mamie Howard (m. William Powell)