Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-10-11
THE JASPER VENDETTA.
A Georgia Feud that Ended in a
Bloody ARRAY.
From the Augusta ga. chrOnicle.l

From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle1
"Draw, draw, darn you, quick"
But before he could ball went crash
ing through his brain.
It was an old feud broken out anew,
and the work Of death had commenced
and another chapter in the Georgia cur
rent calendar Of crime had been CON
tributed.
The Central Baptist Association was
in session in Bethel Church, near Wini-
fred, Jasper county, Monday, and q
thousand people were in attendance.
Among the attendants were representa-
tives Of the Malone and Tyler families.
Bad blood has been existing between
them for years, and they had had blood
less encounters three or four times.
Sunday afternoon, during the erection
of rustic arbor, a young Malone and
old Tyler had words, and the minister
who was conducting services, fearing
trouble between the families, sought out
the individual members and begged that
they not add fuel to the fame or engage
in trouble at his church services. His
success was limited, as the rebuffs with
which he was met took the form of
curses, and with prayer for peace-for
the good man seemed to have forebod-
ings of trouble-he turned his attention
to his ministerial duties.
All went smoothly until about IL
o'clock Monday forenoon. Sam Tyler,
in passing Jim Malone, was touched by
his elbow, when Tyler called out to Ma
lone to draw and defend himself, accom-
panying tho invitation with pistol shot
through the unfortunate Malone's head.
Malone fell dead. Tyler, who, accounts
of the affray say, was under the infu-
ence of whiskey, calmly viewed his vic
tim for moment, and, as he attempted
to turn in the opposite direction, fell
dead, fatally shot. Six men had drawn
pistols and were firing. Ed Tyler rush
ed to the ARRAY and fell with two balls in
the bowels and one in the leg. While
he was lying PROSTATE on his back, still
conscious, he saw Walter Malone ap-
preaching him pistol in hand.
"Spare me, Walker; spare my life
Oh God, oh God p
The appeal was fruitless. Standing
over the PROSTATE man, Malone fired two
shots into his abdomen-fatal hurts.
Fifty shots were fired. Walker Malone
was painfully wounded in the shoulder;
Albert Tyler was saved by his watch, q
ball striking it, and falling in his yes.
pocket. Others were hurt, but leftSthe
grounds to avoid arrest.
When the firing was at its height
every woman on the grounds and within
the church began to shrek, and the
spectacle was a narrowing one. The as
ISOLATION would have dispersed in an
hour. 1t was broken up in confusion,
but later few of the delegates met I'M
der a tree and formally adjourned, the
business of the body having been trans
acted before the shooting began. A cor
respondent who reached the place short
ly after the bloody work was done
says the scene that met his gaze
beggars description. In the church lay
Joseph Malone, cold in death, and on
the veranda of the house o few yards
away was Sam Tyler, dead, and in q
room adjoining was his nephew, George
Tyler, lying in pool of blood and al
most at deaths door. The shrieks OF
mothers, wives and sisters of the dead
and dying was awful in the extreme and
the widest confusion prevailed. Walker
Malone and Albert Tyler, two of the
principal actors in the bloody row, es-
capped.
The fate of Jim Malone is "a sad one.
He had just arrived at the church meet
ing from his home in Birmingham, Ala,
and was on visit to his parents in
Jasper County, accompanied by his wife
and child of four months of age. He
was genteel, handsome, neatly. attired
man, thirty years old, and it is likely
that he had nothing to do with the feud.
There were many narrow escapes of by
ISLANDERS from being killed. A regular
panic ensued in the church while the
shooting was going on outside. All the
young men engaged in the ARRAY have
hitherto borne good reputation, but
there is no disputing the fact that this
sad tragedy was the result of whiskey
drinking and the habit of carrying con-
cealed weapons.