Show ANOTHER KENTUCKY KILLING IT IT MAY NOT BE FAIR to judge Ken Kentucky Kentucky KenI I tucky by b the manner manlier in I which wW 1 mountain Lend feuds are settled but there something so SlID despicable hn hi the die diet e et t i nought hought hou bt that any an people can be so tIO base bess as lS s to shoot snoot daw dele men rne from ambush that the whole state st t must mu t suffer from th tI stigma u ma From time immemorial when thoroughbred Kentucky gentlemen had grievances against one ODe another the warning was waso sent o nt so that both men had h an opportunity opportunity to prepare CastS Cases are on record where men men fought H street duels due with the same ame deadly deliberateness that affair a of f honor bonor in the early days of the last Jut eon cen century ce tury It was not a case of eC the quickest man with ith his 8 gun cun coming out ont victori victorious ous rather was w it a case of You may y tire when you yon are ready But eVeR even in those these days das men were shooting one an another another J other her from ambush in the mountain feuds feu s The bluegrass has progressed while the he mountain population clings to toUs toita Us ita old traditions IB Is an enemy in the way Then put pdt p t him out of your TOUt laT ay ind md stand not on ceremony ony The fully understands that his en enemy enemy emy erny will shoot hint him from ambush if It the th opportunity offers offer offe and he feels teel be he is entitled to the same same privilege liege The killing killin of the tile lawyer tawyer la Marcum was wai however a particularly deplorable tragedy if one assassination aa can be called more deplorable than another I Standing at the very vet entrance to the court house bouse the symbol of law and or order order order der he be was shot pot down d wn by a roan man con concealed concealed concealed inside the building and Phot in inthe inthe inthe the back He had not even the poor privilege of knowing whence hence wh v nce came the bullet that tore through his body bod bodLe Less Le than a year ago go another man mal was assassinated in the same way and from front the same ambush In both in instances instances instances stances the murderer made de his hili escape Indeed very few assassins are ever eer brought to justice in Kentucky a fact ta f that will seem strange str to people rise S where The trouble is that ao so many of the mountain courts are in inthe inthe inthe the hands handa 01 ot men who are re pet let e j pun pinto unc z j 1 1 tWo about methods of ot removing en ene emie e Assassins 8 are often otten arreSt rare rarely rarely rarely ly convicted Their on the te t their theft friends ni the oX ot ers rs and other Ot er are willing to I jS IF and hWe be them em at aM aU times tI aJ d i under tinder 1 all aft n circumstances d Practically pra the o OIb ly way WT to the thi tit f Is I 9 to send seed United States troops aft r them thero and United lifted States courts to try I them thc JEven that tbt process s would d invoke Inv toes lees of life Ute and an infinite In 1 amount t of trouble I |