Show MISSOURI montgomery county the scene of merciless murders dy by W U to the S ST louis jovis jani jana the southern be section WOO of montgomery o mery coti county nty is is mostly a wild and hilly country and during tile past two or three years lias has been inhabited in part by a number of reckless and law men among them thein the days the king boys and others who all without r legard to been most guilty or most irron wrong are objects of odthe the intense hatred upon the part odthe law liw abiding people the M king n boys bo ys consist ofa of johnsom John Dlin Tom joe and abby king upon the night odthe of the dinst the three first named king boys went to the house of mr nelson four miles off americus a romantic little village sloping on oil a bountiful stream in the hills the kalsons claim it was for the purpose pose of robbery and the kings deny it at any rate trouble soon begin began and ended disastrously to the kings the windows of the kelson nelson house were ft ere broken one of the king boye boys was wounded and another started across the dark river with his boots on oil A si mortem was held by squire hl and atod young nelson wh who shot kingway king was justi justified tied the dead body was ivas borne to the cabin of the kings kins kin s south americus on the tile next d day ay for burial this cabin is occupied by the old man king two of the boys their heir t wives and their mother ali mrs austin that night while abby waa was in the village for a coffin for his dead brother a band of citizens bent on destruction rode up to the cabin and made an assault old mrs king and mrs austin ran out when mrs kin king was wounded and mrs austin ariot shot dead another of the king boys was crip crippled tied and still another perhaps ia is dead ead during the frightful tra tragedy edy old mis mrs kin king although thou ii wounded thought of having sent her youngest son u abby anav to tile village for the coffin an and d winding sheet shoot and she sped toward him to warn him the boy fled to danville and the sheri tr with a kosbe au will start to arrest the leaders of the mob and enforce order |