Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-02-07
A KENTUCKY FEUD.
How the Garrisons of Clay County
Killed OF the SizemoreS.
THE STORY OF THE TROUBLE
A Petty Quarrel Between school Children
Began 1.-THE Dead Men Were Out
laws, aud No Attempt win lie Made
in the Courts TO Avenge Them.

LoUIsvILLF, Feb 7--Particulass OF the
bloody affray resulting from the Sizemore-
Garrison fend ii Clay county, in the south
eastern part Of the state, have reached here.
Mrs Sizemore, mother of BLACK Bilfg' Rob-
ert and Sidney Sizemore, lives between the
house of Simon Garrison and Red Bird creek,
in Clay county. There bad been fend of
over a years standing between the Garrisons
and the Sizemores, Last Friday one OF Simon
Garrison's sons was on his way from his home
TO Red Bird creek, where he was rafting TIM
Der to send to the market When he reached
the spot in the road opposite the Sizemore
house gunshots rang out from that quarter
and Sizemqre received a ball in the side Of his
face and another in the back He managed
TO leave the spot alive, although he was ter
ribly wounded.
Friday night some unknown persons, pre-
sumably memb rs of the Garrison faction,
went TO Mrs Sizemore's house and shot 10
death Robert Si2emore, "Black Billn Size
more and "Bud Carr" Smith They also
broke both arms OF Sidney Sizemore and
wounded another Sizemore, who fled
bad Carr Smith and "Blacl Bill'' Size
more were considered the worst men in the
county. They lived six miles from the house
in which they were killed, and were brought
to the latter place, it is believed, hy the peo-
pie of that section for the express purpose of
joining in the engagement which was expected
after the shooting of Garrison
They had frequently been in trouble in
leslie county, and were under heavy bonds
for their appearance at the next term of the
Leslie county court for attempting to rescue
| n from fha chaYir - tAaf
whom they shot during the ARRAY that re-
suited. Simon Garrison was originally from
Leslie county, but now lives ON a farm near
Manchester, Clay county, which he bought
from State Senator Coudill, OF Barboursville.
He is considered a good citizen.
The trouble began about year ago. The
Sizemore and the Garrison children were at
tending the same school, and they had some
petty quarrel The matter was taken up hy
the adults OF either family. Not long after
ward Simon Garrison, the head of the family,
was fired upon by Robert Szemore, and the
former returned the fire, badly wounding
Sizemorc. The wounded man recovered but
owing to the injuries he received in the affair
was permanently crippled. Although very
| bad feeling existed, no further serious trouble
occurred until the shooting Of young Garrison
| Friday and the slaughter of the Sizemores
the following night.
| The Sizemores, however, seemed to have
/ great facility for getting into scrapes, and
last summer another double killing occurred
in which they were principals. Ling Napper
and Spencer Bowling became involved i'm a
difficulty which Levi Bowling, peaceful and
highly respected citizen, attempted to smooth
over. While doing SO he was fired upon and
instantly killed by one Of the Sizemores, who
in turn was Immediately killed by John
Bowling, a brother of the other Bowlings
John Bowling was then shot by another of
! the Sizemores, but was not killed
The fight ended by the surviving Sizemore
retreatiDg. But notwithstanding their losses
in the engagement, the fighting artlor Of the
surviving Sizemorcs was not diminished.
Shortly afterward occurred their attempt to
rescue the prisoner from the Leslie county
sheriff They were in numerous other diff
culties in which serious wounds were in
Aicted, but no lives lost.
The people Clay county have made no at
tempt to discover the identity of the persons
| who slaughtered the Sizemores Friday night.
and il is not likely that they will The men
who lost their lives were dreaded as lawleSs
and desperate characters, and their death is
not mourned.
Old Mrs. Sizenore, Sidney Sizemore and
the one VINO ned are now ABOUT The only
members of the Sizemore family left Sidney
and his mother are still at the latter's house,
where the old lady is attending to her sons
injuries. They can of course tell who COM
mitted the slaughter, unless their assailants
were masked, which has not yet been learned,
but no one has taken the trouble TO ask them,
and no one likely will
Clay county, in which this affair occurred,
while in the mountains of Kentucky. is by no
means such a lonely and frontier region as
the sections in which the Hatfield Mccoy and
French-Riversole feuds have cost 50 many
lives. State Senator w. J. Caudin, of Knox,
the neightoring county, who is in the city,
confirms all the good reports concerning the
Garrisons and the bad concerning the Size
mores. He thinks the Sizeinores win be
afraid. to cause any further trouble aud that
the feud is ended
Defeated by Competition.