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his car parked an additional half mile away, also on Dwyer's property. According to the hunter, he'd shot the deer on Roland Welch's farm—where he had permission to hunt—and then dragged the carcass under the fence line, crossing Dwyer's field to reach his car.

No One On Duty

According to Dwyer. F 'am tried calling the « !• iifs office, reached the jailor and was informed that neither a deputy nor a state trooper was on duty in the county that Saturday morning but that assistance would be sought from another jurisdiction. Dwyer also called magistrate Mary Schumaker and commonwealth's attorney Douglas Baumgardner before a state trooper from Fauquier arrived with Rappahannock game warden Jim BaTikston.

The trooper ordered Dwyer to give him the gun for return to the owner, according to the Flint Hill landowner. When he refused, Dwyer said, the trooper threatened to charge him with grand larceny. The trooper also volunteered to get the intruder’s name and address. "1 could have done that myself! 1 didn't need the police for that." Dwyer said.

At that point, he said, a federal land bank official who had been hunting with the intruder arrived on the scene and warned he would charge Dwyer with brandishing a weapon. "1 told him that was fine with me and gave him directions to the magistrate's."

Seeking help from the game warden. Dwyer reported Bankston as saying that he couldn't do anything because he didn't see the deer shot. Next. Dwyer said, he asked Bankston to stay with the hunter while he went to the magistrate’s to swear out a trespass warrant, adding that by then he’d also contacted deputy John Henry Woodward who was to meet (Continued on Page 8)

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