About 10:00 P.M. on Saturday, January 28, 1928, Deputy Harvill, 45, and Grayston Township Constable W. Arthur Hood were patrolling the usual Saturday night dance in Addington to keep order. As the officers crossed the street between two Chevrolet sedans, someone in one of the cars opened fire on them. Deputy Harvill was shot in the right shoulder with the bullet ranging downward through his chest. He had been shot from such close range that the muzzle blast set his over coat on fire. Deputy Harvill died less than half an hour later but not before identifying Green Smiddly, 23, as their assailant. Deputy Harvill left behind a wife and four children. Constable Hood was wounded in the right leg near the groin. He died near midnight four nights later on February 1st.