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Show FOUR FAMILIES) AFTER 'iDLOOD.. ;. . u . 1 1. ::li-J ,U itoil : Story of a t'niuoui. JIUitoij Vcudctta Which Started Two raveyard. ;'';'St: Dovish 'Mo:', ftixir Illi-Ttie re-'cent'arfestof re-'cent'arfestof TomRu&ell in Cai'bdhville'; 'J ackso'n 'county,' 111. 1'&k f6-iVed 'interest 1 in the most bloody yendetla 4yer' bought in this country,0 whicii' rfesuUed in the j aWost' 'corriplete' 1 extermination of Voxir families. Russell' i&'hbw 'lield oii ' tto indictments for iriurder in 'the first degree' ' which, have been pending ten years..0' ) ' '.' . 'Among the prominent families of fann-!l ers living in the western part of William' son county, Illinois, in. 1873, were the Kussells, Bulliners, Andersons, Cranes' and Sisneys,-' ' ' 'There 1 Were'': several grown . sons ' and 'daughters :'in;i"eacli family, ahd ' trouble '' between : -two ' of these started the feud. On election day m 1873 1 the two families had a 'pitched -battle at Craneville, in1 which two Bulliners Bullin-ers ' arid 'one Russell " Were rwo'niided.7 Then the friends,, of th. combatants espoused their cause until a half a dozen, iamilies were involved on each 'side- Ln ' December; 1873, bid George Btilliner 'was shot from an' ambush "and killed.'" He died calling on the boys to avenge1 liis" : ueam. in Marcli, 1874, David Bullmer, one of 'the-; boys, .was c8bot; frdra a hedge ' and killed J - On the-1 night of May 15th John Henderson was killed on his -"own doorstep c and one John1 Detmore , wounded. .. Two days white Petmore ." w-as, ' killed. ;,, On,.. October 24 Dr. "Vincent Hmchliffe was Tfehot from' behirid arid killed,! and a month later Le-j vidua Riidd received a load of ' buckshot" in the side,; In, January, , 1874, ,'Gn , ,W.' Sisney was shot, but recovered., , On , August Au-gust 9, he was shot again an.d agaih.re-covered. agaih.re-covered. -Xater. he . was. at home; 'snr-1 rounded bv. his eieh't ' children '. whpn n' crash, went through the glass In the. window win-dow and Sisney fell mortally wounded: Two weeks later,. John Russell was killed; : on the streets, of .Marlon,, and the year1 1875 opened . with . the. .Bulliners ,'-one; ahead. The sheriff; appealed to Governor Gover-nor Beveridge Tor afd to stop the vendetta. vendet-ta. John Bulliner was sent to prison for life. .'Two of the .i Jlendersoiis',' one , each of the Cook, Coyle and Crane families , were sent to Joliet for long., terms, v An-' other of the Cranes was banged. ,','Tora" Russell escaped, but returned a short ; time ago and was arrested."- , Nearby all the witnesses against him are dead. The families were nearly exterminated, and ; two graveyards were started in the vicln- j ity as a result of tW feud. ' I |
