The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-24
WHERE TERROR Always REIGNS.
4 Part o. Kentucky That n cut on ~
. Bend In the Mississippi.

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been produced by the turns and twists OF
the Mississippi River none Is stranger and
none 50 terrible In Its results N that IN
Madrid Bend" where the great stream,
turning north from Island No. 10. sweeps
across the line from Tennessee into Ken
tocky, rounds into the Missouri shore. and
then. sweeping southwark. cuts the line
sgnln 10 Tennessee. Thus II cuts on a sec
ton Of Kentucky from the rest Of the state
and even from the county to which 1t be-
longs and. wrapping around II a coil OF its
own wild waters, holds 10 aloof from law
and order. from right and justice and clings
To IL as the last resort in which may thrive
the outlawry and crime which half a century
ago were rampant along the whole river.
There In probably no other place In America
to-day in the heart Of q cultivated country
where human life 10 held 20 cheap as in this
little region thsf lies opposite New Madrid.
Mo and pays its taxes at Hickman, Fulton
county. Nv.
This is Kentucky Point. the home OF the
Darnell- Watson feud. in which more than
forty men are said to have been killed. -Four
miles wide and about seven miles long, Il is
settled as thickly as any farming region in
eastern Kentucky. produces enormous crops
of cotton. which employ hundreds Of pickers.
and Ia always a scene OF activity. Yet i has
neither court nor constable. Jail nor Jailer.
and ackno wled ges NO Law that does not ac-
cord with It's own notions OF Justice. Many
months have elapsed since a sheriff visited
this region. and many years since lac took q
prisoner out from II TO stand trial at the
Hickman court house.
Yet a week seidop goes by that some man
Point With the Mississippi on every side
but one and Missouri across IL, and viii Ten
certain OF easy escape before a sheriff thirty
miles away could be notified and come to
Shs .oese south rsN 81 sta H,c line runs su 9u from q 'h shs
capital down stream TO Kentucky Point, in
Madrid Bend. Is more than twenty five miles.
intercepting eeIon OF Missouri lies along
the Bayou st John and James Bayou, which
are impossible swamps, and which have
lessness BY land through Tennessee is
almost as impas ssble. for I is cut by Reel
ford lake 6 and The *. surrounding sr rns swsmPs and
go from Hickman TO the Point, and 10 travel
steamer. which NAV be a week In cominR
why, ! haven't been down there in
months, !" said sheriff stpbbleneld recently
knife scrspe every few days Is nonsense
II there was ! would plil have been notice, ,drn,a,io,
was easily had that three men had been killed
within ten davs. No one had taken the trou.
that as the so three were we'll done away With
They amt really been what YAH might
Ssll g kiln aid a TSs,fe N, Of ax ssf r2Rl as-
sic Satday night that they come nigh mott
tyin' tie sheriff about Fe!lsr 20, % the
Who he, Wa lie got to, samblin', with a
BESSIE Teller an qunrrelled with him an
t6e Bessie Teller KILLED, him Folks kinder
tainlv did say the first word
They was another Teller died last week.
IN IL cot shot up sowea week. ago satnT-
H nS adm ID de de" none qs'f u WSel"esd"y '' 50 dunno
-. 1919 all ~ Enlfnf "
Further inquiry added to this list the MUIR
der Of a negro by a white nan, e. whom he
i1SkE S"I poin nnnaot 70 20 into "a aneien, history.
hut all admitted that there had been two
lynchinss during the wear. one OF a negro
anv one could remember When the Civil
War came the Confederste Arny rsl1ed New
wa 10 m ana asIano F So 10 s san 'P a ID = Cam cam
pa ign getting his vessels through Bayou
s. John and the neishbor,ne woods TO cut
peace came TO the rest OF the country,
feud ce me to Kentucky Point Gen Oar
iInT wS at , .ae Old Boz o s' Watson tST,, on an1 the eelkG Ken.
tqs.y side ,.s FAMILIES ITnn nc OF lanes ana p 's,d
wSl"s s soSn seI tn the 3 b%ar 4 ifH Watson. against All.
zen DARRELL was a Confederat, and Capt
Lane was a nion veteran, hut North and
South were forg"ttrn IA thr arpins and
each had from SEVENTY - eighty men under
arms and keeping " Thin call. and tor a long
time neither Nentured away from home with
out his force
Neeting~ were frequent and always
fatal Both sides formed ambushes. re-
sorted 20 every kind Of traach"ry and vlllaiuy
to obtain tl"i- ends, and az last the end VA
reached, when "a" li-t Lane aud the Last
Donaldson were dead. aud when ,,-r DaruelI
and all but on" Of lii sons we're Killed This
last son, DIuk Darn.ll, Wa shot this y-al.
aud With nlm die las side 81 the Dsrnell-
Watson clan or the Matsons, Old Bob
l. dead and none of hIs som iyss on the
out OF the f-ud and who j. to-day it, sole
survivor He go's heavily armed to-day
snd j. preparing g. move" 10 Texas. Sh"T" h-
may Ind. himself beyond the finding Of any
relative If the warning factions This j. not
fear Nth hIn. for few would dare insluuHtr
IS Nardice Of any son Of Old Bob Watson
" was IN thi- frud that the barnell-N at-On
faction anbu-hrd the Lane 81 slough land
iug On" day and KILLED many ~ them 4
- amer gong down >'resm touched 81 the
Darnell landing aud q band ~ armed uru
boarded ~ and ND among ths cotton bales
cant Lane aud -om- of u- bD,s Nrts on
the landing on Their -ide ready o. put fr.ig't
aboard me boat - u cam" ia They we're
ndNau,iug toward tt" pldHk when the an.
burh-d men rose RItloI' warning aud fired
Null"l after wolfe, ~ fLrm, kluiug ~ aOHhd-
nos al lu ,iFlt Dru DAuurll di-,iHitlcd
cios' - sooid NJ boys bu' "a" sh-rr
aus forced g. TAX HusII. Antr 81 o. aud AZ
r'-i~d Ayu. lie tusl va veil under Nbh
and mot - tne evidence Sas % vhen IN a."
middle ct the Afternoon th" bsrnrll atm,
numb"ftnF then some thtftk armed men,
filed into tue ,ouTt aud ,%u,errd iudsr. JuN
spsttHtnrs nItu shotgun. and Iifs-
'"hi' llv.F pnp ~ ." hrHfd enough ~
fUt- ruId pIrl Ubuoil and thr ia WHh
o tufsd "ui aud Sas taken bonn" The
ladss hnd ptas"'itins s%ttarn~l "s'apsd Ig
fua 81 iHiiN WIFs uu .ItraM aUd dd nuI 30
tIft 'H iH.l '.u.I Zoo a i"hs bu"