The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-25
A GEORGIA VENDETTA.
The Terrible Feud that Ended IN
Murder at Church Door.

DRAW, - you, quick!"
But before he could, a hall went
crashing through his brain.
The Central Baptist Association was
in session in Bethel church. near Wini-
fred. Jasper county, Monday. says the
New York Graphic, and i 600 people
were in attendance. Among the at
tendants were members of the Malone
and Tyler families. Bad blood has ex-
listed between them for ears, and they
had had bioodless encounters three or
four times. Sunday afternoon, during
the erect on of a rustic arbor, a young
Malone and an Il Is Ter had words,
and the minister who was conducting
the rvices, fearing trouble between
the families, sought out the Individual
membtrs and begged them not 10 adu
fuel to the fl am. or engage III trou Die at
his church services. His success was
limited, IS the bluffs with wnlch he
Was met took the 10 IN of cur SEES. and
with prayer for peace-for the good
man Sc med t. have foreoodiDgs of
trouble-he turned his attention to his
minis etiHl ~ It's.
Al W t ii ,hg smoo Il GU "a until
about IL O'Clock Mund y forenoon.
Sam Tyler in passing Jim Malone was
touched by his elbow. hen Tyler called
out u Malone to draw ana defend HIM
self. accompanying tn invitation with
pistol shot through the I'm ortunate
Malune's mead Malone fell dead.
Tyler, who, accounts # he ARRAY say,
was under the Influence of liquor,
c4lrnly viewed his victim for moment.
AMI. rs he attempted to turn III the
opposite direction, fell dead, fatally
shot. Six men had drawn pistols and
we're firing. Ed Tyler rushed to the
sfffav 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 Walker Malone ap-
preaching him, pistol in hand.
"Spare M Wa ker-spare my life! o
Coo! . Gou!
The appeal was fruitless. Standing
over the PROSTATE man Malone fired
two shots into his abdo me fatal
hurts. Fifty shots we're freq. Walker
Malone was painfully wounUe in the
shoulder; Albert T Ter was struck in
the arm; Frank MiuuI, brook life was
saved by his watch. bali stricking it
and falling in his vest pocket. Others
were hurt but eft the 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 IVES narrowing one. The
association would have dispersed in an
hour. 1t was broken up IN confusion,
but later few of the delegates met IN
der tree and formally adjourned, the
busint IS OF the boov having been tran
sacted tefOre the shooting began. A
correspondent who reached the place
shortly aft-r the bloody work was done
says the scene that met his gaze beggars
In the church lay Joseph
Malone cold in death; On the veranda of
the house few yards away lay Sam
Tyler dead, and in a room adjoining
was his nephew G erge Teller, Tying in,
pool of blood and almost at deaths
door The sh1ieks of mothers, wives
and sisters of tbs dead and dying were
awful in the extreme, and the widest
confusion prevailed. Walker Malone
and Albert Tyler, Two of the principal
actors ID the bloody row, escaped.
The fate of Jim Mslone is a sad one.
He had just arrived at the church
meeting from his home in Birmint ham,
Ala, and was on visit TO his parents
in Jasper County, accompanied bv his
wife and child of four months of age.
He was q genteel, handsome, neatly
attired man, 80 years old, and it is
likely that he mad nothing to do with
The feud. There were many narrow
escapes of bystsnders of being killed.
A regular panic ensued in the church
while the shooting was going on out
side. All the young men engaged in
the ARRAY have hitherto borne good
but there is no dlsputing
the fact that this sad tragedy was the
result of whisky drinking and the habit
of carrying concealed weapons.