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Show Aged Feudist Violates Parole; Back in Prison Frankfort, Ky. Tom White, aged Kentucky mountain feudist who played a prominent part In the Hargls-Cock- rell feud which began with a squabble over hogs and ended only when more than a score of lives had been taken, la again In the reformatory here to serve the remainder of bis life. I The mountaineer, who Is almost seventy, was returned to prison for violation of parole privileges after be had been convicted of transgressing a liquor law. The return of White to custody recalls re-calls the stirring days of 1003 when the Bargls-Cockrell feud kept "Bloody Breathitt" county In a reign of terror. ter-ror. The feud did not die until 1912 when Jim Uargis was killed by his' own son and Ed Callahan, bis ally, was shot from ambush. White was convicted of the murder mur-der In 1903 of J. R Marcum, an at-torney, at-torney, leader of the forces opposing Uargis. Marcum was standing on the courthouse steps when White passed by and remarked to a friend. "There's a bad mnn and I am afraid of him." A few seconds later two shots were fired and Marcum fell to the ground mortally wounded. White was arrested ar-rested for the murder and given a life sentence but was paroled In 1917 |