The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-06
MOUNTAIN OUTLAWS.
a Trail OF Blood Follows Desperate
Berry Turner.
Post Dispatch

a Trail OF Blood Follows Desperate
Berry Turner.
Post Dispatch
Berry Turner who is now on the war
path again, is one Of the most desperate
men who has ever troubled that region
about Cumberland Gap and along the Dor
der of Tennessee and Kentucky. He knows
no fear and never sleeps until he has killed
the man against whom he has grudge.
whether for fenced or real cause. He is a
typical noun 'aineer, tall and athletic with
steel-gray eyes and black hair. He always
goes heavily armed. having on his per-
son two Colts siX-shoOter reyolyers,
and besides carries a Winchester rife.
He is a dead shot, ana rarely. il
ever, fails TO kill the man whom he
shoots at. No one knows exactly how many
men he has killed, the number being varI-
Ously given from ten to fifty. The officers
stand in mortal fear of him, as he boasts no
man can arrest him. 80 far he has made
his boasts good with one exception. and
that was when he was arrested and JAILED at
Pineville, KY, from which jail he made his
escape. lie threatens to kill the man who
arrested him in that instance. He is some
80 years old. Nearly all Of his relatives
have been killed in the feud, which has ex-
listed for ten years. AT present he has some
twenty follo Ters, three or four of whom are
always with him.
HIS home = now just on the line of Tenn
essee and Ientncky, about half way be-
tween Jelllct and Cumberland Gap It isa
wild mountainous regions, with only here
and there small clearing to mark the cabin
OF mOuntAineer. Turner's house Is on a
mountain stream known as Clear Fork, or
creek. which goes into the Cumberland
River.
Not long since the correspondent of the
Sunday POst-Dispatch was in Turner's
house. 1t Il simply a One-rOom log cabin.
While standing In the door some sort of
STAINS were noticed upon the single step,
looking mu2h like the blood from
chicken w9ch had been killed the same
morning fcs breakfast Upon inquiry it
was learned that mans brains had been
blown out swhie he stood in the door and
he fell on khe step, over which his brains
spread. He had been "ioolin' with one
OF the women Of the house. A book could
be written Of the deeds Of depreciation COM
mltted by the men who belong to the
Turner element.
In Claiborne County, Tenn, two wears
ago, Turner brutalIy murdered his own
cousin WIN Turner Berry, for some
trivial otfense. had determined To kin his
cousin. They met and Berry proffered
friendship, but watching his opportunity
when Wits back was turned shot him
with the gun Win had laid aside.
Berry then fed TO Tennessee. He be-
came enraged at young Jim Lewis over an
AFFAIR ABOUT woman and deliberately laid
plan to murder him. lie asked Young
Lewis Levi, to 60 with him TO the woods one day,
saying that he wished to test the nowers Of
new Winchester rifle, which ne had lust
purchased. Turner asked Lewis to step off
certain distance and arrange a target for
him; as Lewis did this Turner took DELHI
crate aim and shot him.
u ~ Lewis Wis was friend Of the Parton family
Bill farton, VINO Is now on the Pineyille
police force, headed small posse and cant.
ured Turner While awaiting his trial Tur-
ner overpo~ered the jailer and fled to the
mountains AA0N w 'S