| Show hull A U I 1 felkins arrested by dan B hunter the 6 jurors in the hull inquest rendered the following verdict william hull on june 1936 met death at the horne home of ralph tracy being shot to death by a 30 30 winchester in the hands of earl ear felkins DOVE CREEK CHEEK between the hours of four and five sunday afternoon ter teT noon our town waz was throb thrown i in art an uproar upon the arrival of tracy kebin from Ca balione cahone lione who apu deputy ty sheriff glen fisher arri courty coroner dr R S lipscomb that earl ackins had killed william hull ty by shooting him with a 30 30 winchester rifle from the best information obtained ut at this writing mr felkins and mr hull had been visiting with mr ralph tracy in his home and as llie hie hour arrived for air tracy to catch the for restry truck which transports th the to and from their work tracy walked down to his mail box on Hirr highway hway no 1160 1 accompanied by hull and felkins Felkin 3 tracy took passage on the trual truck hull and felkins returning to the tracy home while ahil ile there they became enraged in an altercation which seemingly arose over some unkind remarks which hull made relative to felkins wife hull threatened to carve fel kina with a knife at the same time starting toward felkins with knife knice open when within thirty or forty feet of felkins the said felkins discharged c arged a 30 80 30 winchester with the result that the bullet pierced the right side of hull passing almost entirely through his body causing instant death these two men were alone when the trouble occurred oc cured the facts as above stated were sworn to by deputy sheriff fisher who stated to the coroners jury that felkins related the above story of the shooting to him at the time he arrested felkins felkins waived preliminary trial and was escorted to the durango jail by fisher there to await a further hearing this is indeed a sad affair as the evidence of two bitnes witnesses sea who testified in the case stated that about eleven on the day the killi killing n oc cured these two men were seemingly on the best of friendly terms hull was a man about seventy five years old while felkins was about thirty years old |
