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'''April 30, 1923 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 1:'''
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[[file:1923-04-30-sc-p1-myers-suicide-reardan-jail.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''LIQUOR SUSPECT TAKES OWN LIFE.'''
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'''Haney Myers, Reardan  Tailor, Suicides Following Arrest in Cleanup.'''
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Haney Myers, proprietor of a tailor
shop and cleaning establishment in
Reardan, committed suicide some
time Sunday while under arrest for
being intoxicated and having possession
of “high-powered” moonshine,
"while federal and local officers were
searching in the vicinity of Little
Falls on the Spokane river for the
still from which Myers secured his
supply of moonshine.

A coroner’s jury at 2 o’clock this
afternoon found that he met death by
cutting his throat with a small knife
The knife was identified as his own.

Myers was arrested yesterday morning
in a highly intoxicated condition
by Sheriff Gilpatric and Deputy
Sheriff Colville. He was locked up while
the Reardan officers and H. S McClure,
federal prohibition agent at
Spokane, searched for the still and
moonshine cache from which it 
is believed to have obtained his liquor.

The sheriff had search warrants
and information of sale of liquor
against several persons and called
on Mr. McClure to aid him, The party
went north through the Creston country
and near the Spokane river west
of Little falls searched several hundred
acres of heavily timbered rocky
land, locating a large still and some
liquor.

They arrested a farmer and his
son, W. C. Oglesby, and Earl Oglesby,
and Abner Johnson being
charged with possession and sale.

At 9 p. m. the party returned to
Reardan and found Myers dead.
Sheriff Gilpatric immediately called
Coroner Phillips of Almira and Prosecutor
Fox of Davenport and a
coroner's jury was impaneled, reaching
a verdict at 2 o'clock, this morning.

Myers has a mother, brother and
brother-in-law living in Reardan.
He is reported to have been addicted
to the use of liquor periodically
drinking to excess.
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