| Show H 3nnuuuVuLR1UuLrtrjVLeu W111111 OEM HE ulruinmLniLnnmrLnmvAtLniLnAmuuLruuuum R HUNG 11 ME Remarkable Story of the istakerHoward Feud In I he M OUR 1 jolftis 01 Eastern Kentucky 9 riftutrUnnturituirtruinti I u urtrinAruneurtrorieLn IJ tnJU IJ ItI1lIlItItl 111I fUIIJVI1o rintorontrurtri U u w Krtiluckr has been walchln with 101 > devstjeneroto I In the Baker Jlawjrd reud In I 11 l y rUnty hlch n Tied In nllnlf pick I unoLl from to Manchwlr Wherein th laI lt Buarl slAtaSsAart1 att tout I on trial role mur tn That a Uotllnl iron wes conald ma not i ry t 0 preserve the luWlc Sweet mar cm somewhat uprloln lost I the M who know theme Kentucky mountain ran understand II It wu only tho once day In ent of in mountain counties thai t when a man Wooed of murl flnl a girl Was ao quitted this ItIrlo rriatltr Tried to kill Ikv JudU Colonrl C Olson IBTM A POLITICAL FIGHT TB ailiterIloorapt feud white am o < the rnuunt In Mallorn Kentucky U 00 of the moat blllrr or waited u pollllo mtm Sam It In a way not 061 rtlalc1 m make pears possible list tWorc mountain Iud In Kentucky bay generally bn vn > nl affaire and lu a c naln ell nl this li I true In lhe > menl MC A II Howard and Wa Ml Jim aa well a < the other How and I are tha ar a are lleialll nnn nn no IHker Ilut Tom Duke r hanpmrt or Ollbrrt Oar la ba a personal frten 1 Democratic poll rnro a rising young wh aspired to bor i tit sheriff 1 iWn t A Jii county The llakrra autilmfted IHimrl sealant Ilevri > Whlln I W Oarrard to l drawn Into the Iih aad Tt J has become the IK nJjn an role th liallogre died 1 ham onabled them Ill JE j I ff prison and 10 kI Ih II wAedA nd their friends the WhItem in mortal To IIIher omllI ate the nat terror W jyVJl Il4Iker shot awl killed Bev < fly Htf brother Will who had 1 sheriff prior < ° loverly election The MIMliK Tied 1 nothing t 0 do with the Tutor I owanl fell Sent It CAUat1 1 the VfSut take IIm I with th Howard Phil when they 111 that Hubert Oar nrd Very naturally took vidso 1 with the JUker hU ohl frl 101 who had al Ihotilh llepulllcan auitKirteil lolm 1 at the roll polls IO kunrl sent to flay county last Jim t ke to I the pene Tue Ing the xono1R1Sj 1 lrnlo1 Tmi linker for kllllnll Will While nn1 John llakrr and several 1 tothrm fr kill nn n Inc Wilson Howard and IWrl Hlore nrl I Jm Howard for kllllnit old Oelre tinker falhar of he flilkf b < > a The Hiker were eent to 111 without I bal nl llarhouravlllii and Jim II 1 iw aril As pent to jail without bell at Ixnl n Ijnirrt aounty t A Lau7t V CT10N HTItOSn Altemi l lo lake the Site of OlluMt old rant from amuvtli alarmad him ao Ih reliably thai ha hired several menD men-D guard him horn and finally went mouth lo sinful th wlnlr on flar rArdp return 1001 spittle ho h1 the ItAkera liberated from Jail on 1016 I Not I IN I after Tom Baker was re Iraaeil from Jail alt attempt wn mad In I aewulnat him one afternoon while he visa Illlnn on hi mil cabin 1 Perch The hull t mruck a post and paulnir through It hlffialur but failed I to enter houllh his clothes Thl aildnl to the Utter feeling between the Ilakcra and the While Artw luker who was n1 captured loot y car when the others were arrrte r t cl ly the Htnle troop K 1 sold to tm back In In unty He 14 l considered one of the n t dangerous mlnhera of the Itakcr fi nlly The Howard have many relat I In llarlm cnunty wh wIn nww I w-In the Turner llowarl f 01 l In th1 milty eeral Yeats mail and It I II weeral belief that the llarlan unty 111oards will cartoon to the as I illnni lot thlr Cloy county kinmen Tnlll liakrr la quoin me saying that I be 011101 rather al lean IW well armed men atvl o Into I llancheiler still I Ir i x Ie I t hlmxlf should he carry Out this plan Turing the Sonreelent term of the t r clay 1 county carcultc4ift II er la no doubt I that a dwptrata battle will Ine fought on the ptroeto t Mancheiter The Whites having almost absolute coniml I of the court machinery and Slaving the power lo ummon aa many i deputy eherlrfi am her mot nt are In Ito n Innoltloin I-to KIV their enetnlr the wont if the meiine K a hoolll mllnlt should I Ink plan llevrly W hit are J hit brother John 0 ar known as the meet frhelet men In Hay r unly and 1 they ha a follonlnx fully thlr enual In piAnt of lighting qualities The IMk em also have the rep itatlonf being loperale men and Tom linker 1 If kn n t4i Igo l quick on the Was r as in11 am his brother An and hip hilt Smother Dooor I Of the ImmIIoo Ian Sly I linker there are eight btherio slid rmodna and uncles by the cirp h lAIII amoist them beat bh 1law and relatives 101 marriage All 11 horn will fight for them If It bMflrnei rvaaarv I Bl IIISO WAGON TIII1 CAUBr 11 was oil about a 110 Ppring wagon < < that hd not been pad 1 fer that I he feud started Tom linker liiul Ion Into palln111ol job Israel andcArter Howard I raft log on the tlute a lleeoe Murray hI1 1 n Julitmnl fr the aprlng wagon gnlnt Jam It And 1 llal r H toward traP rfereil th J udgment at a low tra-P hlo lUker anl Hiker bought It Thl is enragd the II wnrila no1 nuarrel 100hw ei whirl linker tried 1 col ert Ihe money irl I t nn I T m linker mt one lay log I ll Hot word lot lownl and linker I 1 Iren a revolver and jumped be hln1 a fen o poll Howard dnw his revolvr And Ink the other lld 1n 01 l aide of the Iqt They fired I nrounXth pi n at uh othtr IIntll I I their plltol were empty lPrAVa fifth h1 WAR nd ever the lot if II l l nnt th bullet loll Steller I th S back of th nk producing a nh orowl llaktr IU in the olpoII tilde 1 01 the fertile an1 Israel = 1 Not last shot at 1 him Ihrouoh the reeve Proturinit It IIM Strait wound the 1Imn A rw days after I him occurrence Ion or a dosen of DoOkWe friends to rll I lots along the h ue It I > W Hall 1 leputy 1 sheriff When they began allamet Inlf AI a bush Hall came tut and told horn to quit An1 linker hot at I 1111 and the bullet cut off a P160 01 him I ear limit drew a raot1 and they emptIvill their wePons at such oth Anarl likr was Phot In the h19N r I seriously and a acute tidden Sir John lIokr hd a 109 hllkn by is bulll I Jhn Itakers clothes were cut Alylititi tire with bullota 111 Howard the father 01 Israel after this tried In mnk peace but luarrH over the oIloln l f Hi lot I being rafted by M m linker I and IW Howard lioy foil ell l The HiWM rafted out tile long I on1 were urn 11 past John Itakers house hen they Acre n1 on from ambush nulJ V BLOODY ONIL llal Howanl who was riding a aplrllel young IIIn ad I arrylim a WIhI seem iruck In the bark nl ths first fire but manased lo held 11 la I flip timing hone The next oUkr truck llurch liters and knockril him tI off hie Stores I Th bullet rcike hU art and he wa leal whrn h t < a-rt thf t ground Wllon I Tremont I fell off lilol 1 Imeols hot through the I bills JI Howard topespord to Wilson i loll do hative Two of the allarlittior p rtv film went lick tnhf the men lay on the road I not I hot hem Ixth In tho Xiamen with explosive blllllO which film their biHlle In I Pleven Wilson 1 llowarl live I New I nnullh lo tell That II was Tm link and haftT Wool In wh n1 I the e T e bullets When James II lbnard hf4td that Sam brther I w as kl Id and that his father vino shlt bIlr h armed hlmi > elf 1 and rI I nt a fa < < IIp to the Tend I Al tht unr 1 of A K tlowirl he fount 1 Rvqwll I Womer of whom Iw I om A riftrr th rnr clothe of Ull n Howard and Lurch i eploihf James aaaKtcri In itlMllnit them Red wo on file jnilnt of Ixivlng when Oei rs Ink r collie mll Without I stepping to ronill that tlili wa the one man In Clay r unly whoM IA who-M l Tell r I Carried him Weapon a plot anl young nrtl rt I wanl u let Irito I the old marla abdomen producing almost Instant death Itenllllng that It would now be or 10 the knife James mounted his ho and told Away to She hm of relative In I IIrlan county Tnr 1 as a reward of IISO Rere1 1 for Howard arreel Road t he urrendrd to a klnimn n that the man mlgl t get thor reward and earn with him to Man cheerier where ho was turned on I 0 Ih proper officers He wa released on WKhali Bhfflff II P 1 Whit Jr summoned 0 no hundred deputies to arrest tho Ilaker still I the were brought In for examining trial htfnre 0unlY Judge J U U Mol The Irliln I Ixteil I three rUy The llaviarilm were nhlrk the JtaVer do the 1 Phointina I bill the IWker rrosed ty heir lellnemins that they were five mile away at Ihe time of the hooting end t Judg Wright dismissed the limiters from ruelolr On the lay after the trial nil rOn n At n In law of flat Howard r i it no kin 1 lo Oorg Hiker1 gone overtook < hrle Woman who was Mid II It to have Pht llurch Blore They rode side by able 1 for a quarter of a mile trying to gt the drop on each other Hnally I llh11 both drew their rvolv r almost nt the Ram time aid shot from behind him back at too I drew the weapon from the acabboard Sloth men rolled off Sri liimloo and I as they lay I In the read 1 emptle I their ilia lots at each other Bid linker rode tiff unhurt llle Wtnn wounleil In I the back dragged himneif Into the truth where le wn found toy I one 101 the lukir still I taken home when he 41 Illlam i U Mtt n brother to the firmer sheriff wna Poon aflerwaril met by Tom Baker who hot him I In She atoll men still kllleil him It 1 WK for the abf v crime that the wholonale l rrl of the Ilakera wa made lat June Blnc then JIm lIowaM has been enteneil 10 n life term In the penMentlary SIX the Inurel Mr llll f nil rt where the CA woo sent on a change nr vornue n1 In he ljkA cam the jury nt Ilirliourvlll failed lo see still I they were a Itnltte I US bell Tom linker look an nt 11 pal 1 nIll cap and the new trial ones nr drd which 10 I now In prearPN Y IteraIJ |
