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Show AGED FIGHTER IS KILLEL) BY CLUB PERSONAL GRIEVANCE BETWEEN TWO OLD UTAH MEN ENDS IN TRAGEDY Furniture is Used in Fatal Battle at St. George; Dead Man is Survived Sur-vived by Wife; Both Held In High Esteem St George Two aged men, one 65, the other 75, armed with articles of furniture and clubs, fought a duel to death here according to information furnished by Sheriff Wilford Goff of Washington county. As a result of the fight, which is said to have been caused by personal grievances fomenting for several years, William T. Perkins, 75, of St. George, is dead and John Lawson, 65, ! his brother-in-law, is in the county jail charged with manslaughter. The following, story of the affair is given by Sheriff Goff, who investigated investi-gated the fight: "There had been feelings between the men for years and Lawson had been threatened by Perkins and warned to keep off the Perkins property. prop-erty. Perkins returned unexpectedly from a visit to Idaho and found Lawson in his house. Perkins commanded him to get out of the house, repeating the command three times, and finally piclred up a club in the kitchen and threatened Lawson. Lawson, in some way, got the club and Perkins picked up a chair. In the fight that followed, Perkins was struck over the nose, breaking the bridge. They clinched and wrestled around on the floor and Perkins died as he was held down by Lawson, ft is alleged. It was found that the blow on the nose was the only one visible. There was no concussion of the brain;" the heart was found to be in a weakened weak-ened condition; the lungs badly congested con-gested with blood, supposedly from the broken nose. A doctor's report has not yet been made. "It is thought that the claim will be that Lawson, holding Perkins on his back, caused the blood from the broken nose to fill the latter's lungs and cause death. Mr. Perkins is survived by a wife but no children. John Lawson is single. |