Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-03

A special term of county court was
held Wednesday to conduct an investi-
cation as to the sanity of Sarah Lewis,
who lives with her father zeal Sabula.
After hearing the evidence the court
determined that she was of unsound
mind and ordered that she be sent to
an asylum. Several years ago this un-
fortunate woman was sent to an asy-
lum, but was discharged about three
years ago as cured. Recently she be-
came deranged again, frequently at
tempting to set fire to the house and
other buildings. Sheriff Gregory left
this morning for Fulton with his
charge.
Thomas Hall who vas convicted for
killing Jas. Asher and sentenced to the
Fp~enitentiary for a term of years in the
Iron county circuit court but who had
appealed to the Supreme court and
was out under bond, awaiting decision
OF that court was shot from ambush
and killed on last Monday. He and
his brother were engaged in hauling
fodder from their field on that day and
were loading their wagon when Tom
Hall who was or the wagon was shot
in the breast, the bullet coming out at
the crossing of his ~suspenders on the
back. He only lived a few minutes.
Another shot was fired presumably at
his brother who was on the ground,
the bullet barely missing him and bury
Ing itself in the wagon box. The
murder was committed just over the
county line in Iron county. Killings
are getting altogether too numerous in
that section and the authorities should
make eveay effort to bring the guilty
party or parties to justice. -CenlreUille
Outlook.
Isn't the Outlook mistaken as to
where Tom Hall was killed. Our in
formation is that the tragedy occurred
'.just over the line' in Dent county
Here is the story of the killing of
Tom Hall as told in the last issue of
the Salem Monitor: Thomas Hall of
the west part of Iron county was shot
by some unknown person Tuesday of
this week while at work on his mothers
farm in the eastern part Of this county,
and died a few minutes after he was
shot. He and his brother, Charles
Hall, were hauling corr fodder from
the field not far from the house. They
had hauled one load and returned to
the field and drove to a shock and
stopped to load. Charles got off the
wagon and stopped to pick up some
fodder when W shots were fired at
them almost at the same instant. One
of the bullets struck Thomas Hall in
the back just under the left shoulder
blade and lodged In the breast bone.
The other bullet passed through the
end gate of the wagon and through the
side of the bed against the standard.
If it had passed through it would prob
ably have hit Charles Hall. Thomas
Hall jumped out Of the wagon and ran
about 20 yards where he fell and soon
expired. His mother reached him
while he was still conscious and asked
him il he knew who shot him. He
said John Barton was one of the men. !
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
of death at the hands of some person
unknown to the jury. Thomas Hall
was convicted last year in the Iron
county circuit court for killing a neigh
Dor named Asher about opening a pri-
FdtS TOdu, duu WAS S6nGenC6u 10 leu
years in the state peniteDtiary. He
appealed his case to the supreme court
and was out on bond. There has been
trouble between the Hall and Asher
families for a long time and John Bar
ton is said to be related to the Asher
family. Barton may be innocent of
any connection with the tragedy. The
assassins fired from the brush about 40 |
yards from where the wagon stood.
One of them broke a limb from a bush
to get a clear view of the Halls. They |
we're tracked for some distance from
their ambush. Sheriff Blackwell and
Judge Stephens went out to the scene
of the crime yesterday, but could not
get information on which to make an
arrest"