The age-herald., 1897-12-26
KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER With a Double Barrel Shot A TRAGEDY AT BLUE CREEK Pink" Alias "Wl" Livingston, an Eighteen
 Year Old Boy Modernzes inc Story
 of Cain and Abel.

Pink" alias "Wil" Livingston. an 1S- year-old boy, shot and killed his brother, John Livingston. at Blue Creek yesterday morning at o'clock, using a double-bar- relod shot gun to commit the desperate act.
 Pink immediately fled and was captured through the strategy of Deputy Sheriff J. R. Carroll, of that place, who brought him to the city last night and lodged him in the county jail.
 The two Livingston brothers with a third brother were employed in the mines at Blue Creek and lived with their mother ill one of the company houses. Yesterday morning the brothers were at home and were drinking, John and Pink became en- gagged in a quarrel. when Pink suddenly ran out of the front door, going to the house of John Bell, neighbor, and taking up double-barreled shot gun he returned home and walked up to the window, broke pane of glass with the nuzzle of the gun and sticking it through the opening, fired one shot a9 his brother, taking effect in the left breast, killing him instantly.
 Pink immediately fled from the scene, and, going to farmer about six miles be- low Blue Creek, engaged him to take him in his buggy towards the Mississippi state line
 Deputy Sheriff Carroll who heard of the occurrence a few minutes after, wired Sheriff O'Brien to send the dogs, but on
 account of the rain the dogs were not sent, the sheriff notifying Deputy Carroll to try and catch the murderer.
 The driver of the buggy became sus- picious of the boy, having heard some- thing of the occurrence, and that the deputy was after the murderer, and drove in range of Carroll, who secreted himself | behind the door of a farm house. In a
 short time the buggy drove up and the boy
 was induced to come into the house, when | Deputy Carroll covered him with his pis- tol and placed him under arrest The Boys Statement. | At the county jail last night the boy | made the following statement: I've were at home and were drinking some, but were not drunk. John was of quarrelsome dis position and was always fussing. I don't l know what we began to quarrel about, but | he told me he would kill me before night.
 went out and got the gun and came to | the window and dared him to come out. 1 He picked up a chair and started towards
 me and I shot him."
 Pink has been in trouble before, and Is
 wanted in Blount county for carrying con
 ceaed weapons. He was arrested by Mar
 shal Blackburn of Warrior for the Blount
 officials some time ago, but escaped by | jumping out of window in the room where | he was confined.
 1 He also got into difficulty at Reeds Gap,
 a small station near Warrior, about a wo-
 man, and was shot in the shoulder. The De7d l5rpther. | John, the murdered brother, was known l as a desperate man. About a month ago | he was pardoned from Pratt mines, where
 he was serving a life sentence for the mur-
 der Of his sister, Ida, whom he killed at | Warrior about nine years ago, on account | of a man. He is also said to have killed | three men besides. About ten years ago a l man named Murphy was killed at near | Blount Springs and his dead body placed
 upon the Louisville and Nashville track. | The murder was charged to John Living
 ston, but nothing could be proven against | him and he escaped punishment. | Arot Brother l Another brother, Sam, is serving a term | in the state penitentiary at Wetumpka,
 also charged with murder. | Deputy Carroll swore out a warrant be- l fore Justice Cahalan charging the boy with
 murder, and it is probable that he will be ! given preliminary hearing tomorrow. | He appeared perfectly cool last night and
 seemed to think he would come clear. I