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Left: Otto Wood in the aptly named Roarin’ 20s. Right: Here is a sampling of the headlines and narratives from the Salisbury Evening Post after the shooting of criminal Otto Wood here 90 years ago.
Otto Wood
90 years ago, the ‘one-armed bandit’ met his fateful end in a Salisbury shootout Salisbury Police Chief R. Lee Rankin, left, and Assistant Police Chief J.W. Kesler, right, exchanged gunfire with Otto Wood in a shootout in the 100 block of East Innes Street on Dec. 31, 1930. Rankin is credited with firing the bullets that killed Wood.
WRITTEN BY BEN WHITE
