The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-03-31

| These murders occurred on Wednes-
day, and on Friday Frank Gill and Joe
CGngman were warned to leave the
parish. They tarried not, but went,
and their families followed soon after.
| Their homes are for sale in Homer
to-day. 49, f-Et. z<
With Joe Tuggle dead it was hoped
the feud would end, as he was the
evil spirit Of the whole enterprise
His brother Hamp, who killed Bill
Ramsey, made Overtures to John Ram
sey for peace, but John suspected the
treachery which had killed his brother
and would not make any promises.
| John Ramsey Killed.
At the time Joe Cingman and Frank
Gill were warned to leave the parish
Hamp Tuggle also received warning.
He did not obey. He was already in
hiding from the officers and was sell
dom seen by any one, though it was
supposed he was at home every night.
A few days after the warning was
served his feld fence was discovered on
fire. Fearing a snare Hamp did not
show himself, but sent one Of his ne
groes to exHnguish the flames, believ-
ing that even if it was a snare the
negro would be spared, but as the
darkey ran toward the fire he received
a charge of shot in his hip. The other
negroes were afraid to go to his assist
ance.
The usual blind was discovered by the
officers, but no trail could be 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 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 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 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. Sam sprang
out and ran into the woods. On hear
ing the shots the mules ran away,
throwing the negro girl to the grouraf
The team ran straight home and dashed
up to the gate, where the other men,
bers of the family found the mangled
remains Of John and his driver in the
bottom Of the wagon
1t was impossible to apprehend the
assassin. but the murder was believed
to be the work of Hamp Tuggle.
AS soon as the Ralnseys could make
arrar rgements to move they left the
, parish, and again the hope was enter
tanned that all the bad blood was emp
tied ~ 5s
Some months passed and nothing was
heard of Hamp Tuggle. His brother
Henry was a peaceful and Industrious
citizen. One morning he was picking
cotton in his field when a shot from the
woods hear by mortally 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
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 never
been seen since the murder of John
Ramsey.
| AAoAAo oS IAC yOuuSc1 SO1l, was
shot in the leg one night as he was
returning 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 a
surgeon and officers. The bloodhounds
were brought, but again refused to
follow the trail
Fugitive Murderers.
Public indignat ton 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 Joh1i- Fer
guson, q friend and neighbor of the
Tuggles, was shot from ambush, and
two letters he had on bis 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 a 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.
Tom Kinder and Hamp Tuggle are
at large and looking for each other
E1amp Tuggle's two SONS are at home,
but stand in hourly dread of Tom Kin
der's unerring bullet
Kinder is the last Of the Ramsey
faction, and is said to be the most cum
ming. He is a dead shot and per-
fectly desperate. Hamp Tuggle is
equally as good a shot, and if possible
more desperate.
These two men are both fugitives
from the law and each stalking the
other in the swamps.