Indianapolis (IN) Journal, November 3, 1892. NOTE: In other accounts of this event, Heth has been identified as Heath and Clabe variously as Clayborn, Claiborn and Claiborne. SHOT DOWN FOR POLITICS Cold-blooded Murder of Republican Marshal by a Democratic Sheriff Corydon, Ind., November 2-Sheriff Clabe Shuck, who shot and killed W. G. Heth, marshal of Corydon, in front of the county jail last evening, was taken to Jeffersonville today for safekeeping. The killing of Marshal Heth was one of the most cold-blooded political murders ever committed in Harrison County. Mr. Heth was a leading Republican, and the only thing that animated Shuck in killing him was political prejudice. Shuck is a Democrat, and when he was placed in jail last night he swore he would "kill every d-d Republican in Corydon when he was released. The evidence at the coroner's inquest went to show that Shuck was in a saloon firing off his revolver and otherwise raising a disturbance when Marshal Heth went in and requested him to keep quiet. Shuck applied a vile epithet to the marshal and Heth went out. When Shuck came out, Heth placed him under arrest, and Shuck pulled his revolver and shot him in the bowels. Shuck was drunk and had been cursing Heth during the day because he was a Republican, and it is said that he made threats that he was going to kill him. Marshal Heth had been marshal of Corydon for a long number of years and had the confidence of everybody. He was a leading Odd Fellow and a member of the G. A. R. The most contemptible part played in the sad affair was the sending of a messenger to the Louisville Courier-Journal with an article that was simply a falsehood from beginning to end and which was a slander on both the living and the dead. The plain, unvarnished truth is that Marshal Heth was killed on account of his politics and this is the reason Shuck has been taken to Jeffersonville to escape lynching. There has been a Democratic speaking in town which gave the sheriff, along with others of his political faith, courage to drink a quantity of liquor and get his nerve up to the point where he could do that which he has not yet expressed any sorrow for. The marshal was simply performing his duty as a city officer when he was shot down. Democrats, naturally almost to a man, support the sheriff.