| Show civilization in indiana the crown point aa la register Kc gister of abig august angust baya saya that on the monday previous the citizen citizens ot hobart township were startled j with the sounds ot of guns pistols cry cy of murder the sounds came from the vicinity known aa as the blim mummery mery neighbor hood A demily by the name of Murn mummery mely mery consisting of the old man three boys a son inlaw in law and daughters have been I 1 vin ving at varland variant elor eXor a year or two hayd haya had hard words and frequently threat threatened ined each others lives the quarrel commenced about the old mans man as property one son and the son bon in law laly on one si oi the other sons on the other the two have often threatened to put an end to the old hanif man if they ever evier caught eim him alone on monday day the old man was toi told tol by the daughter that a hawk was flying about the I 1 house and that he could shoot it ile he took I 1 do downa 1 aih a heavy double barrel barrei barrelled I 1 ed gun cun he did not seethe beethe the hackbut hawk but looked about until he got pot ashout distance from the house bouse when he came across his bis son and his son in law who sald said bad litre liere hire re is the old man lets L kill 1111 ill iii him 7 and autobee at oace made mado after him with an axe ile he turned and fired one barrel at his son hitting I 1 him in the breast with some fifty large latke shot killing him instantly he snapped the other barrel at the son sot I ln inlaw law but it did not go ot he ile took a double doubli barrel barrei pistol from his bis pocket docket and fired one barrel batrel taking orf off one of his ears he ile then fired the other barrel and shot hia hin hla through the body the son in law laly lived until tuesday and gave in his testimony before the coro coroners nerys jury and died in au minutes the thereafter reafer public opinion seems to favor the old ma kanand nand the general opinion seems to be that he d d no more than was necessary to save his own life theold thorold man is about CO 60 years old the son he killed killea about 30 or over the son in law and le leader aderin in the difficulty was an old man 1 ably oder older than his father in law about the same time a man named horton was killed by disown bon son in clay county in a quarrel abbat a pistol which the father de sred to take from the son fo prevent his killing in somebody with it the parricide was lodge Ain kin jail jall and in the same jail were three brothers one of them confined for forthe theft fc and the other two for obstructing 0 legal pro bess in jail at the same time for did dlf different deren feren anses is 4 te e no 0 often witnessed |
