The leader., 1905-07-15
BLOODSnED IN MISSISSIPPI.
A Startling Number Of IiOmicides Com.
mitted.

mitted.
Scarcely a day passes of late
that the public is not called upon
to read Of some shocking homi-
eide. Following swift upon the
heels Of the cowardIy murder of
Miller 10 Pike county by j. B..
Slade and before SHADES prelimi-
nary trial had been concluded,
two blood thirsty men take the
law into their own hands and shoot
Ia hand-cuffed prisoner to death in
a crowded railroad car at Crystal
Springs while in the hands of an
officer Of the State on his way to
serve a sentence in the peniten-
tiary.
One issue of the New Orleans
Daily Picayune Thursdays con-
tanned the following record of
Mississippi tragedies, committed
the day before:
Pachuta, Miss, July Il. News
has reached here of a shooting
between Shack Ethridge and An
drew Davis at Rose Hill this af-
ternoon, both men being killed
outright.
Bad blood bad existed some
time between Davis and Ethridge.
This afternoon Ethridge and ne
gro went to Davis house to get a
wagon. Ethridge ordered the ne
gro to hitch up the wagon. Davis
ordered the negro way. Eth
ridge then proceeded to hitch the
team up himself, when Davis pro-
cured shotgun and ordered Eth
ridge away, striking him over the
head with the gun. Ethridge
drew his revolver and both fired.
Both men were killed instantly.
The men were brothers in law.
Rose Hill is an interior town
fifteen miles west of this place,
and has no wire connections.
Further details of the double kill
ing are not obtainable at this
hour.
Columbus, Miss, July -. Joe
E. Bell and John B. Sale engaged
in a duel tonight in front of Street
Drug Store as a result of a misun-
Outstanding over a business trans
action. Bell was almost instantly
killed. Each man fred two shots.
Sale was shot in one arm, the
ball passing through it and then
through his body. He was hit
once in the shoulder. The bullet
was extracted, and be is in no inn
mediate danger.
Bell was a member of one of
Columbus most prominent fami-
lies, and was manager of the CO.
lumbus Hosiery Mills.
Sale is a popular young man.
The preliminary trial of Sale
has not yet been arranged for.
He will remain in jail until the
extent of bis wound will permit
of hearing.
Columbus, Miss, July 10. j..
a. Shepherd, freight conductor
between Artesia and Tuscaloosa,
Ala, whose home is at the latter
place, shot and killed Bob"
Watts, an ex.freman on the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad, on the
same division, this morning at 10
O'Clock at Artesia. The tragedy
occurred in the railroad depot at
that point. The two men met in
the depot, and Shepherd com
menced firing with revolver.
Two shots were fred, both taking
EFFECT. Watts died at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon.
It is learned that family trou-
bles of long standing led to the
killing. Shepherd removed from
Artesia to Tuscaloosa three months
ago.
Shepherd surrendered TO an off
Ger who brought him to this city
and delivered him to Sheriff Egg
| gleston.
Shepherd is native of Artesia
and lived in this co1nty up to
three months ago, when be moved
| his residence TO Tuscaloosa. Be-
sides his wife there are four chill
dren composing his Immediate
family He is about IS yeals Of
q &c and belongs to d prominent
family.
Bob Watts was about %
years old and was married man.
Darbun, Miss, July u. Sam
Regan, prosperous farmer of
this section, was shot from am-
bush half mile north of his
home yesterday morning BY Coy
Lenoir, negro boy. Two shots
took effect, one in the back and
the other in the right arm. Meth
/ er will prove dangerous.
Lenoir and his mother are liv-
ling on Regan's place, cultivating
crops Oh shares. The negroes
were ordered to move. The boy
went away and borrowed a shot
gun and opened fire on Mr.. Re-
gan.
"A posse IS IN pursuit.
The roll is siekening one.
What are we coming tos
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