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Show OLD FEUD BLAMED IN AMBUSH MURDER BEDFORD, lnd, Feb. II P An old fsud between two southern Indiana In-diana hill families was blamed today to-day for the confesssd killing of a 41-year-old farmer by his nsxt door neighbor. , Donald F. Stiver, stats police su- psrintendent, snnouncsd at hasd- quarters in Indlanapolla last nlgbt that Samuel Pierce, 68, had admitted shooting, clubbing and subbing Earl R. Roach until he died Sunday in ! , their farm neighborhood northwest I of hsrs. Pierce, a six-foot, US-pound man I in overalls, calmly explained to' newspapsr msn at Stiver's office: "Roach'a uncle killed my brother, ' Bill, 40 years ago." A searching party found Roach'a battered body Tuesday. j |