The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-26

! damp Iuggle also received warning.
He did not obey. He was already in
hiding from the officers and was sell
dom seen by anyone, though it was
supposed he was at home every night.
A few days after the warning was
served his field fence was discovered
on fire. Fearing a snare Hamp did not
show himself. but sent one of his ne
groes to extinguish the flames, believ-
ing that even if it was snare the ne
gro would be spared; but as the darby
| ran toward the fire he received a
charge of shot in his hip. The other
negroes were afraid to go to his assist
Rnce.
| For four months there was no further
| outbreak, and it was thought the feud
was ended.
| John Ramsey no longer came and
went through by-paths 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 six o'clock
started home in his wagon. He was
sitting on the back seat with his
younger brother Sam. A negro was
driving and a negro girl was sitting
with the driver, John had his VIM
chester across his knees. for he still
suspected the treachery of the Tuggles.
When they were nearing home a shot
rang out from the bushes, and then
another. John fell forward in the
wagon, and his negro driver being in
line of fire fell across him-both dead.
AS soon as the Ramseys could make
arrangements to move they left the
parish, and again the hope was ecter-
tanned that all the bad blood was emp
tied.
Some months passed and nothing
was heard of Hamp Tuggle. His broth
er Henry was peaceful and indus
trious citizen. One morning he was
picking cotton in his field when
shot from the woods near by mortal
ly wounded him. He lived long enough
to say that he say Tom Kinder shoot
him.
Kinder got wind of the statement,
and when the officers went after him
he had disappeared. Soon after Mrs.
Hamp Tuggle began receiving anony-
nous letters telling her to leave the
parish or her sons would be killed.
They were boys Of nineteen and fifteen
years. Her husband, Hamp, had not
been seen since the murder of John
Ramsey.
Murray Tuggle, the younger son, was
shot in the leg one night as he was re-
turning to the house from the stable.
Afraid to expose her elder son to the
assassin the mother mounted a planta-
ton mule and rode to Homer for sur
geon and officers. The bloodhounds
were brought and refused to follow the
trail.
This seemed to have no effect. as not
more than three days after John Fer
guson, friend and neighbor of the
Tuggles. was shot from ambush and
two letters he had on his person for
Mrs. Hamp Tuggle 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 and Tuggle.
The cOroner's jury returned YER
diet 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.
Tom Kinder and Hamp Tuggle are |
at large and looking for each other. |
Bamp Tuggle's two sons are at home: |
but stand in hourly dread of Tom Kin
der's uzerring bullet.
Kinder is the last of the Ramsey fac |
ton and is said to be the most cum
ming. He is dead shot and perfectly |
desperate. Hamp Tuggle is equally
as good shot and if possible more
desperate.
These two men are both fugitives
from the law and each stalking the
other in the swamns.