The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-11-23
THE VENDETTA IN GEORGIA
Murder for Slight Provocation at
the Doors or n Church.

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the Doors OF n Church.
The New York Graphic thus describes
an incident of Georgia life: Draw,
draw, -, you, quick!'
But before he could a ball went crash,
ing through his brain. 1t was an old
feud broken out anew, and the work of
death had commenced and another chap.
Ter in the Georgia current calendar of
crime had beer contributed.
The Central Baptist association was in
nession i'll Bethel church. near Winifred,
Jasper county, Monday, and 1000 people
were in attendance. Among the attend
ants were representatives of the Malone
and Tyler families. Bad blood has been
existing between them for years, and
they had had bloodless encounters three
or four times. Sunday afternoon, dur
ng the erection of a rustic arbor, a young
Malone and an old Tyler had words, and
the minister who was conducting the ser.
vices, fearing troAble between the fami-
lies, sought out the individual members
and begged them not to add fuel to the
lame Or engage in trouble Mt his church
services. Ills SUCCESS was limited, as the
rebuffs with which lie was met took the
form of curses, and with a prayer for
peacc-for the good maj seemed to have
forebodings of trouhle-hc turned his at
tention TO his ministerial duties
All went along smoothly enough until
about IL O'Clock Monday forenoon. Sam
Tyler, in passing jim Malone, was
touched by his elbow, when Tyler called
out to Malone TO draw and defend him
self, accompanying the invitation with a
pistol shot through the unfortunate Ma
lonc's head. Malone fell dead. Tyler,
who, accounts of the affray say, was I'M
der the influence of liquor, calmly viewed
his victim for q moment, and as he at
tempted to turn in the opposite direction,
fell dead, fatally shot. Blk men had
drawn pistols and were firing. Ed Tyler
rushed 10 the airray and fell With two
balls In the bowels and one in the ley.
While lie was lying PROSTATE Oh his back
stilc conscious, he saw Walker Malone
approaching him pistol in hand. Spare
me, Walker; spare my life. Oh, God!
Oh, God!' The appeal was fiuitless.
Standing over the PROSTATE man, Malone
fired two shots into his abdomen-fatal
hurts. Fifty shots wcra fired. Walker
Malone was painfully wounded in the
shoulder. Albert Tyler was struck inthc
arm. Frank Middlebrook's life was
saved by his watch, a ball striking it and
falling IL his vest pocket. Others were
hurt, but left the grounds to avoid arrest.
When the firing wns at its height every
woman on the grounds and within the
church began to Shrek, and the spectacle
was a narrowing one. The association
would have dispersed in an hour. 1t was
broken up in confusion, but later a few
OF thcd delegates met under a tree and
formally adjourned, the business of the
body having been transacted before the
shooting began. A correspondent, who
reached the place shortly 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, a
few yards away, lay Sam Tyler, dead,
and in a adjoining was his nephew,
George Tyler, lying in a pool of blood
and almost at deaths door. The shrieks
OF mothers, wives and sisters of the dead
and dying were awful in thecxtreme, and
the widest confusion prevailed. Walker
Malone and Albert Tyler, two of the
principal actors in the bloody row, cs
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 q visit to his parents in Jas.
per county, accompanied by his wife and
child of 4 months of age. lie wa a gen.
teel, handsome, neatly attired man, &c
years of age, and it is likely that he had
nothing 10 do with the fcud. There were
many narrow escapes of bystanders from
being killed. A regular panic cnsucd in
the church while the shooting was going
on outside. AL the young men engaged
in the ARRAY have hitherto borne good
regulations. but there is no d~lspuling the
fact that this tragedy was the result OF
whisky drinking and the habit Of carry.
ing concealed Weapons.