Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-24 | Page 1 | Farmer Fires on Worshipers to End Family Feud

y FARMER f FIRES ON TO Hm END fAMIlY EMILY nu FEUD One Victim Dies Two T Others Desperately Wounded Ii II YEAR OLD BOY HIT I C Congregation Th Thrown rown in Panic by Sh Shots ts S FAYETTEVILLE Tenn Dec 24 AP AP- AP AP-A. AP A. A J. J Simmons and Neal Golden lay ray desperately wounded to to today today today to- to day and Floyd Steelman 22 was dead vict victims ms of bullets fired into a aI I congregation of the tha Cumberland Presbyterian church of Kelso near here Iere last night by Joe pros pros- pereus per ua farm farmer r i in an a. ef effort r to 4 set set te tte dc e t o Jn ons s C v an anu anS Simmons iM haI i ien eh tn neighbors neighbors' for forye for years ye rf but th th the only onh ony explanation F for the tragedy y by b yas as that differ differences between th the and Simmons families had I prompted the attack surrendered I dered Steelman the first to be le struck died within a a. few moments Simmons Simmons Sim Sim- mons was wounded in the fa face e and lungs and Golden n was shot in the abdomen Paul Gattlin Cattlin an year old boy suffered a minor wound of ot the scalp is said to at Simmons Simmons Sim Sim- mons mons from ri a position in the rear rear of or orthe the church the first shot throwing congregation the the- Into a panic The following shots were fired tired in rapid S order orde S Services were Immediately discontinued discontinued dis dis- discontinued continued after arter the shooting following the attack ask d a L friend to summon an officer and waited n-alted in the churchyard for the latter S Is the father of seven chil chii- I dren iren S n