Gaston Reedy Buford, 42, clergyman, died attempting to save an indeterminate person or persons from being shot, Atlanta, Georgia, February 17, 1917. A man armed himself with two revolvers and surreptitiously entered a house in which were his wife and two other women. He shot two of the women, one fatally. Buford was walking on a street nearby with his wife. They heard several shots and also screaming and a woman’s voice calling, “Help! Murder!” Buford told his wife that he would give help, but he was unarmed, and his wife pleaded with him not to go. He disregarded her warning that he might be killed and ran to the house and entered it. The assassin shot and killed Buford and came out to the street and shot at two other men. Another man then shot and killed him. 17681-1474
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