The sun., 1888-12-22
BLOODY EUDN KENTUCKY.
THE WAR OF ,HE :RENcH AND ETEE-
SOLE FlCTIcvs RENEWED.

r,rrr., As.nss,.td who were Witnesses
., N. Murder s.s Against the Trenches
"A JaiIer vhSed by Stray bunet'
Iou,sv1I1E. lie Ala terrible ARRAY
h.tvee, tho Frenclad Eyersole factions oc-
cnrrad last Fridal Hindman. the scat Of
;n.tice NJ Knox coty. Ky. II was renewal
- tbo fond descrkd in last Sundays SUM-
u,ndman IA two nts from any railroad. and
The news OF the ahy has only Just reached
hare. On a change venee the cases against
Ran franklin Freh. Bob Proflt, Anderson
coldiron. and Tom hith. alias Red Mule. in
dioted By the Pry county Grand Jury
for the assassiition Of Joe Ever
solo. tho leader OF tho Eversole fac
tion, and his frnd. Martin Combs. had
been taken nom Try county to Hindman.
French and al hisriends were released on
bond at Hindhan French's party gathered
there heavily lrme Many Of the Eversole
faction were ato ptsent Judge Lilly. fearing
An outbreak. bfusd to hold court at Hind
man unless Col Bckner furnished detail Of
soldiers to guah tie court. Gov. Buckner de-
clined to do SOL FRally Judge Lilly decided to
hold court at Hdhan.
Last Friday i'm and Andrew Sloan. two OF
the witnesses a,irst French. went to Hindman
to await their pm to testify. The town was
full of armed m. French and all his friends
were present. be Sloan brothers were the
lifelong friendf the Eversole party. Lewis
Hays. Lib HayaAndrew Hays tthree broth
ers), and II Mule" Smith, MEM
bers of the Z nch party. were together.
They met the pan brothers and at once
picked quarrelth them. This was at about
noon. Tho Freh party drew their pistols
and drove the Sans of the streets at the
muzzles OF theiEeapons. Smith and the
Bayses followed bse upon the Sloans until
they reached pol where they had every ad-
vantage. Red NJ" Smith was In advance.
Suddenly he shout to the Sloans:
Look out for hrselves; -- you. We
are going to kill I'd
Smith and his hpanions at once opened
fire upon the retrea,g Sloans They took dead-
ly aim. and their bets counted. At the first
discharge John Sla fell mortally wounded.
Andy was also hit,veral times. but he man
aged to keep his feeslthough he was so weak
ened that he was bay able to run. Knowing
that they could sooBertake Andy. the MEM
bers OF the Frencfs srty advanced to where
John was lying bleag to death.
Mercy" cried thhortslly wounded man.
do not shoot me ah. will soon die. any
how"
The men did not / any heed to his suppli-
cations, but standinbver him. they emptied
into his body the ekents Of their 4-calibre
revolvers. Fifteen dwenty bullets pierced
his body. His co}e was left lying on
the ground. whild the slayers turned
their fro upon ldy Sloan. who was
staggering along AID Of them. A bullet
struck Andy Sloan ithe right jaw and sew
cred his iugular veinlhe wounded man stag
gered and fell q shor4stance from where his
brother John lay ded The murderers came
up and fred D few bro shots into his body.
Andy died . few h{s later In the most In
tense agony. III
s ss x.s rsR ssd Ss9
On Glabs Jones. the jai Of Knott county, was
Ss Sc Sssss e. Ga III 4 ss O.
WIN not prove fatal. he missile went through
the murderers slowf wffthdrew from Hindman.
Not the sliRhtest, athpt was made to arrest
sasR snsR thiSap liz peG&R.s q sSs III French
faction are still In Himan. All Of them arc
heavily armed. eaelsying one or fyo large
person. while md, OF them carry :, in
addition Winchestefies and double -barrelled
shot guns. Had an3fort been made to arrest
the four murderers fould have caused all the
French partisans folly to the rescue of their
friends, and as thejbre the most numerous
they could have aacaptured the town and
driven from 1t anytE they did not wish to
It W. vas CHARGED the Eyersole party tha.
the murder of the An brothers was part OF
Q carefully planneblot on the part Of the
French faction toFt out of tho way all the
Witnesses who v likely to give dam
aging evidence &inst. French and the
other defendantan the murder cases.
About o week iceding this two other
Witnesses againstench and his companions
were killed. but } news of their deaths
s W. other aIs fsSsis sio.is were ere Richard Vance,
hnd o man w1e name has not been
earned. They re warm friends OF
tbe Eversoles. Rag along together In the
edee Of Perry couI hey were shot from am
bush and Instant killed. Merely the bare
facts Of these tw6Ssassinations is all that is
known this side q rugged range OF noun
tahs. In the fastiR of which the murders
werS accomplished These mon had been sub
pGaped to appeatt Hindman and testify
agahst French auts associates.
TIH murder Of hoe and his companions
did Mi arouse hRersoles 20 much, Tor they
had gown aceusttDd to seeing their men put
out oishe way. HFhen the Sloan boys, who
were ery popul}n the mountain section
fell. thy began tdspare for fight.