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Show FATHER AND SON ARE CHARGED WITH CRIME I II IM . IS..I.I II ' Typical Fend Results in Killing; of School Trustee in an0re- gon County, : UNION. Or., March ?4.-Woods Qray and his thirteen-year-old son were brought to the Union county jail last Saturday night en a charge of murdering Archibald M. Halgartb of Elgin. The affair occurred to northeastern Union county, five miles from Elgin, near the Wallaouwa county border. Woods Gray and Archie Halgarth were ' neighbors and foes. ' Gray was a Tennest sean raised in Kentucky and a typical mountaineer. The small sons of the men fought at school the battles of their fathers, fath-ers, and in the complication Gray' son was expelled. He was taking him hack to school with' a reyolver in his hip pocket, when Halgarth, one of the trustees, not ttced them from his field and called a halt. There was a narrow lane between them With two fences. ; , ' As Halgarth crossed the Intervening fences to get at Gray In the county road, mutual recriminations occurred, and Gray nulled his revolver and told the trustee to stay on his own side. Halgarth walked over to Gray, sieving him. In the struggle Gray shot four times, hitting Halgarth once. . With this mortal wound, he threw Gray down, wrested the weapon from him and began pounding him. Then Gray, according to Halgarth's statement, cried to his son: "Get your knife and kill the ." The boy opened his jackknlfe and assailed as-sailed Halgarth, stabbing him six times, once penetrating the lung. |