The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-16
+ The usual blind was discovered by the
officers, but no trail could BE followed

The usual blind was discovered by the
officers, but no trail could De followed
from it.
For four months there was no further
outbreak, and it was thought the feud
was ended.
John Ramsey no longer came and
went through bypaths under cover Of
darkness, but took the public road and
appeared to have no fear
One Saturday he paid his usual week
@ly visit to Homer, and about 6 o'clock
started home in his wagon. He was
sitting on the back seat with his young
er brother Sam. A negro was driving
and a negro girl was sitting with the
driver. John had his Winchester across
his knees, for he still suspected the
trcachery of the Tuggles. When they
were nearing hcme a shot rang out
from the bushes and then another
John fell forward in the wagon, and
his negro driver, being in line of iirc,
fell across him-both dead. Sam sprang
out and ran into the woods. On hear
ing the shots the mules ran away,
throwing the negro girl to the ground
The team ran straight home and dashed
up to the gate, where the other men.-
bers Of the family found the mangIed
remains Of John and lis driver in the
bottom Of the wagon. IT,.
1t was impossible to apprehend the
assassin. but the murder was believed
to be the work Of Hamp Tuggle.
AS soon as the Ramseys could make
arrangements to move they left the
parish, and again the hope was enter
tained that all the bad blood was emp
tied
Some months passed and nothing WAS
heard of Hamp Tuggle. His brother
Henry was peaceful and Industrious
citizen. One morning he was picking
cotton i'll his field when a shot from the
woods hear by MORALLY wounded him.
He lived long enough to say THAT he
saw Tom Kinder shoot him.
Kinder got wind of the statement,
and when the officers went after him
he had disappeared. Soon after Mrs.
l1amp Tdggle began receiving anony-
movls letters, telling her to- leave tho
parish or her sons would be killed.
They We're boys Of nineteen and fifteen
years. Her husband, Ha1np, had never
been seem since the murder Of John
Ramsey:
Murray Tuggle, the younger son, WAS
shot in the leg one night as. he was
Afraid to expose her elder son to- the
assassin. the mother mounted a planta-
ton mule and rode to Homer for a
surgeon and officers. The bloodhounds
were brought, but again refused TO-
follow the trail
Fugitive Murderers.
Public Indignation had another spasm
at this Outra geous attack on a boy,
and the local papers printed scathing
| editorials on the weakness of the law
This seemed to have no effect, as not
more than three days after John Fer
guson, a friend and neighbor of the.
| TuggleS, was shot from ambush and
two letters he had on his person for
Mrs. Hamp TuggleS were taken He
was returning from Homer, where he
had called for the Tuggle mail 1t is
believed that Tom Kinder killed him
to get the letters, by which he hoped to-
locate Hamp Tuggle.
The coroner's jury returned YER
dict that John Ferguson came to his
death from a gun in the hands of
Thomas D. Kinder. This murder oc-
Cured the last of August, and nothing
more has happened. 49,
Tom Kinder and Hamp Tuggle are
at large and looking for each other
Hamp Tuggle's two sons are at home,
but stand in hourly dread Of Torn Kin
der's unerring bullet.
Kinder is tire last of the Ramsey
faction, and is said to be the most CHI.
ming. He is a dead shot and per-
fectly'' desperate. Hamp Tuggle is.
equally rs good shot, and if possible.
more desperate.
These two men are both fugitiyes
from the law and each stalking the
other in the" swamps