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View Comments In the early morning of March 21, 1921, two Prohibition agents, Charles Archibold Arch Wood and Stafford E. Beckett, were shot and killed while serving a search warrant at the hog farm of Neil T. Shearman. The following are reports from the El Paso Times on March 22-23, 1921. Two El Paso dry raiders slain BECKETT AND WOOD KILLED AT SHEARMAN RANCH WHILE AFTER LIQUOR Fatal Shots Fired From Chicken House. S.E. Beckett and Arch Wood, two federal Prohibition agents stationed at the El Paso office, were shot and killed early in the morning in a raid on the Neil T. Shearman ranch five miles down the valley while on a hunt for liquor. ....