The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-14
OUTLAWRY IN KENTUCKY
ruARKABLs SERIES OF MUIR
nERs IN PERRY COUNTY.

r,a County rerrorizsd for Seven Years
fractional Feud-Men Killed by
- nozanE,A Judge Pleading for His
Life.
From the Nelo York Sun
van KY. Aug. 1.-THE war in
parrv county still continues ana may De
80 very active at any moment. The
soo,ions mass each other on the street. aud
Iao'- IL thing that keeps down a pitched
sue 80 the presence of troops. Much of
u'''- ,.-rlossness in this county has been
'HS - nv the bitter rivalry between the
80 80 and Fyers1le factions, which began
- s,rjnp of 1883. The present repre-
sentative in the legislature from Knott
oc., Bob May, was an intimate friend OF
Tz,,ton French, who was storekeeper in
hazard May ran for county superintend-
80 scbools. Joseph Combs was county
-, and nv some manipulation Of affairs
sue 81 this time Eversole and French had
d;snrte over the renting of soreroom.
Wav sided with French because EVersole,s
fatSer-in-law. Combs, had, as he believed,
Sant him from being elected scnooi superln-
te1dent May distrusted ms VIE ana GROVE
-, ~ at the same time becoming very
t,;++er coward French, who had formerly
-, his devoted friend. May then went
49, a magistrate d made an affidavit
80 he and French had had private con-
tararca during the dispute of the latter and
Evarsole over the DOS session OF 10 sto g.
room in which French proposed to him
+bot thew b1rn Alex Duff's storehouses and
lii Eversole. That after that much was
accomplished no one In Hazard would nave
anongb money left to bring on stock OF
,1ods and they would monopolize the trade
and charge what prices they pleased.
In the lat er part of May, 1886, Eversole
charged French with having hired Jake
Vonnp and Silas Geynert to kill him.
Fversoe then sent for Eli Combs, and Gus
and Greene Combs, his sons, and Hezekiah
Rrashers and il is said that they made a
COMPACT that day that if Eli Combs and
his friends would nelp to kill French, Ever
sole and his friends would help to kill Gey-
merit.
wavlaid seven miles above Hazard and
killed. Eversole's part of the contract was
comnleted with this act. There was then
an immense amount of maneuvring to kill
ard keep from bel killed. Armed bands
of Eversoes and Trenches roamed through
the country, and alternatively occupied
Hazard and held the courts there in terror.
But, in the fall of 1886, both Eyersole and
French had meeting and agreed to restore
peace to the community.
On Sept. IA, 1887, the fight broke out
anew. Bill Gambill and Tony Deaton came
10 town to attend court, and stopped at
Frenchs house. Eversole had Deaton ar
rested for stealing and Sheriff Holiday,
with three deputies, went to French's to ar
rest Deaton. After hard work they sue
ceeded in getting him. bat the sheriff and
his deputies were followed by Bill Gambill,
who became involved in a quarrel with
Eversole and was killed. In the trial that
followed Eversole was acquitted after mar
rOwy escaping being mobbed. in the
mean time Joe Hurt and Greene Combs
were waylaid and killed in the mountains.
On May Is, 1885 Joe Eversole and Nick
Combs were waylaid and killed on Big
Creek. French, Tom Smith and Joe Atkins
were indicted for the murder of Eversole
and Combs. The matter is still in court,
however, in charge of the grand jury.
Shade Combs moved to Knott county and
was waylaid and killed in his own yard
Dick Vance was waylaid aid killed by
French men on Cars For. Vance had
killed seven men. John Sloane, an Ever
sole factionist, was killed by the Hayes
gang at Hindman, Knott county, in the
Heyes-Draugh feud. Bob Hart was
waylaid ard killed a few miles from Hazard.
Wesley Whitaker is charged with the crime
Riley Loving and his son were shot from
ambush by French's men. Ruben Cornet
was afterward killed from ambush while
telling tree in toe mountains. JEFF Gam
bill, French factionist. was murdered by
Eversole men IN Jackson county.
Thus matters went on until the beginning
OF 1889. One Sunday afternoon John Fox
shot into French's house, W here his daughter
and wife were, and the ball from the Win
chester rifle passed so near to the daughter
OF French that it knocked splinters into her
eyes.
Last fall at the September term Of court
Judge Llly remained away. William L.
Hurst, the most prominent lawyer Ill this
section OF the country, who resides at
hampton, In Wolfe county, was elected
Judge pro tenn. by the bar. Both factions
again met at this court. and on the second
9ay Judge George Eversole was at Col. l..
u ~ Saleer's house, when a disturbance
was raised by the French men in the upper
emo OF the town. The Eversole men then
PICKED up their guns and started after the
french faction, when Judge Eversole
rushed out of the yard, made them re-
trouble. '''' -A'o'o
,, That night Judge Hurst was fired on.
he was IN his bed at Combs hotel At the
ume. John Mcknight and Ed Campbell
were Killed the next day. Joe DAWSON is
t tSo OF killing Campbell, but ne has left
NE .ae country. Dawson keeps a "biind
user al the edge of town. Judge Hurst
S %aG W ordered out Of town. Ee pleaded for
, ~ ne and the lives Of some ladies who
,% aateo 10 leave. Judge Hurst was told
Ala di9'1l ne lett at once be could go, and he
tla 50 without even signing the orders Of
'le court be was holding.