New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
ready to be jumped into

that particular household. He extended his culinary
missionary work from one family to another unit,
the men and that his experiment was wise:
Then he taught these same women now t 70 keep Keep
their small houses and huts clean This sun Iur-
ther stifened their pride and made the men respect
count dozen more communities in his noun
tainous charge where the morals of the women
have undergone a very great ana encoHra Gs y,
change and the men are noticeabiy less inchned 70
lie IN wait Tor IeH6ai enemy ab 4bs comunites
white spots" He says If his name should De pub
paw the forfeit He has learned that the noun
taineers do not want to have their cnaTac{er nara @ OF
CARDS only another exhibition OF that clan feei
English ancestors and which asserts itself so con-
stantIy and violently in feuds
Judge Marcum's assassination illustrates the
short sighted philosophy of the mountain feudist,
and serves to show what so many people unac-
quainted with the Kentucky mouTtaineer refuse 10
believe-that the assassination of Governor Will
lam Goe5ei at FF9oG two w years % ago
with the full knowledge and connlvance OF men
capable Of participating in such crime. To the
mountain feudst death is the only due OF the man
Cured the i'll win of one faction as soon as ne
of another faction In the philosophy of the noun
taineer the death of Marcum would mean the re-
whose murder would restrain others from taking
up the work of the murdered man.
There is thought in the minds of the murderer
and his When m a2g soa ana an oe6
that he or they viii be brought 10 condign punsn-
rnent by the courts For so many years they have
munities or being captured, have been acquitted.
that they have little fear OF the law. In
point of fact. it is customary for the conspirators
of an assassin carefully plan his defence before
care and Ella borate detail few years ago by the
French faction in the French -EverSOe warfare fhH'
ii has since been adopted model
The French Esversole feud had kept Breathltt
County in a ferment for years. and cost. directly
and Indirectly. more than a hundred lives. In
1895 the French faction perceived that its interests
demanded the removal" of County Judge Combes,
an old and highly respected citizen \ nephew
of Judge CombeS had to the trench
faction and In the drawing of lots TO determining
TO the nephew. 1t decided by the conspirators
that the easiest and surest way OF shielding the
assassin was to establish aiibi for him. Ac-
cOrdingiy they organized moot court. which met
at the home of one of the French factlon. rev
miles from Jackson. Fifty or more men partici-
pated proceedings Of this mock tribunal or
Justice. which in continuous session for more
than two weeks. The moot court went through
all the forrna Titles Of trying the selected to
commit the assassination. even having lawyers 10
prosecute and defend him. and at the close OF the
closely contested mock trial the jury declared that
defence had established an uninpeachable
aiihf Therppon the wretch was instructed to pro
ceed with all possible dispatch to the bloody worh
assigned TO him
He law IN wait all night IN the yard Of Judge
Combes his uncle and when the cid man emerged
frIm his house. after daylight the nephew
shot him through the heart with a rifle charged
with smokeless powder. II so happened that tle
assassination as witnessed by two women VINO
knew the young we'll. and upon their testi.
mony he was convicted and hanged The line or
defence planned and successfully followed AT
the moot court trial pursued hv him when
brought actual trial. but the State took
trfct and I'm this tribunal the claim Of alibi could
not successfully established