The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-09
TWO MEN KILLED
And Another Body Wounded.
Awful Result OIL EOTIy Morning Bottle
0I Georgetown Lost Sunday.

The Dead Buried-Living Partici-
pants in jail.
Because of difference regarding
the ownership of certain fishing
equipment, between George Parker
of Rolleston and Frank Kinds of
Georgetown, battle was fought on
the dock at the latter place at an
early hour last Sunday morning,
which, for vigorous bloodthirstiness,
marks the zenith of crime in the lat
ter day history of Putnam county.
AS a result of the battle William
r, Bellamy and George Parker jr.
ire dead, and Albert Mixer, George
Parker sr. and w. T. B. Warn are
badly injured on the head, but it
is thought he will recover.
From all that can be learned from
the many conflicting stories as to
the origin of the battle the News is
enabled only to make the following
necessarily incomplete composite
picture.
Parker ST. and Frank Kinds had
mao some p"rIhefShlp "[1II;anSeiilelt
IN the llshlhg business. Iheir JOINT
operations hal peeh III tliG G hei8Ioor-
hood OF GeorgeCoWh' Iheh Ihere
was a partnership esGrangemehC,
Kinds claiming tnat ParKer had
taken advantage OF MN IN ulVls1
ION OF the money me heCs ana
other equipment were ieit III posses
sion OF Hlhus' ana thls properly
Parker determined to secure. 1t Is
stated that ne hao oDtalhed ADVICE
from an attorney who mad pointed
out the legal method OF procedure 10
secure the property.
Kinds had Also 1t Is CANNED, seen
an attorney VINO had ADVISED MIN 10
retain possession OF the property.
Ignoring the adVice OF MS attor-
hey, farker anu MS SOIL youuS
man some 20 years OF age, started
out last saturday AFTERNOON III
small boat Tor Georgetown deter
mined to get possession OF the as
puted nets. IL is salu Cilat III Cne
night they secured tnelr boaC 10 the
steamer Fearless ana got low as
far as Fort Gates, where they again
put OIL IN theif shlall DoaG, anu Ill
, when, latef In the hlghG' they aP-
proached GeofgetoWh d0ck.
The olncers OF the fearless ala
not see the Parkefs at any tilne on
the up trip. III is stated tnat JACK
Green OF RI IaCes saw Chelli anu
talked with them late tnat night;
that ne SufmlSeu tnelr mission anu
warned them to Keep away.
In some manner 1t Is supposed
that Kinds got WORD OF the coming
! OF the Parkers ana that ne set a
guard to protect MS nets. linus
himself was III ana dld not come
out, but his friends Albert Mixer
w. L. b. Earnes ana WIN. L. Bella
my, the latter his prother-lh-law'
; each armed with Il gun entered the
warehouse on the Georgeetwh dock
, and lay i'll wait for the arrival OF the
Parkers.
= The first that was seen OF the Par
kers on the Georgetown dock was
along about clock IN the morning
when Fred Priest engineer OF the
Fearless, heard some one moving
7 about on the boat. He called, sup
= posing 1t was one OF the deck nahds,
= but instead 1t proved TO be the ola
man Parker, who, pointing to the
! warehouse, wanted to know VINO thee
t men were VINO We're inside. Priest
| answered that re dld not know. A
: few minutes later Parker walked up
the dock and when even with the
warehouse three, men came out,
} seized him and demanded to know
? his business. The old man was
7 thrown down ana kicked. when
he was released 1t is sald that the
, old man fired his revolver once at
his assallants. Then one OF them,
who proved to be Bethany, attempt
ed to take the revolver away from
Parker. While thus engaged he fell
, back, eXclaimlng, my God, l am
shot! He had been hit with the
: only shot fired, Just before. Then
Albert Mixer hit old man Par
= ker over the head with his guu, from
which blow Parker was Knocked
= down and Tell In the river. A,
: the beginning of the attack, Parker
= called for help from his son George,
5 who appeared to emerge from the
woods, or land end OF the dock III
about 10 minutes, and Just after his
father had been Knocked down.
From the testimony OF engineer
Priest, who did all he could to sepa-
rate the men and preserve the peace,
it appears that when young Parker
approached he had his gun at rest
over his arm; that he made no at
tack; but that he too was hit over
the head with gun in the hands OF
Mixer. This blow felled young Par
ller, who was later carried aboard
the boat insensible and taken to We
laka for medical attendance. He
never recovered consciousness, and