The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02
DUEL WITH GUNS.
Members of Two Families Pan.
per Each Other.
Three Shot Guns and One BE.
vOlver Used.
NOT A ONE ESCAPES.
Surgeons Pick Shot Out Of All
Four.
Then They Are Locked Up in
Kansas City, Kansas, Jail.

Kansas City, June Eight hun.
ored people returning from a ball
game had an interesting half hour last
evening near the intersection of New
Jersey avenue and North Thirteenth
street, Kansas City, Kan, watching
William and Edward Farmer, BROTH
ers, shooting from the east side of
thirteenth street with shot guns at A.
w. Gee and his son, Lee Gee, who
returned the fire with a double barrel
shotgun and a revolver. The battle
lasted half and hour, all four of the
combatants were peppered, more or
less, with shot, and it required the ar
rival of wagon load of police to
bring hostilities to a close.
That none of the spectators were
hurt is due to their good leg work
when the fracas began. Those who
chanced to be between the two houses.
for each family was firing from its
own home, made run for IL TO the
nearest telegraph pole. The later ar
rivals contented themselves with re-
naming hundred yards away and
watching from the corners Of conven-
lent houses.
No resistance was offered the police
by either of the four. Everyone was
bleeding in some part of his anatomy
from small shot wounds and was only
&ldQ OF an excuse TO Qu1t. Tho -FOUR
were carted away, with their firearms,
to headquarters and locked UP, each
family in a separate cell. The weap-
ons were stacked on the chiefs desk.
The Farmer-Gee feud is one of long
standing. 1t was weeks ago that Mrs
Gee took it upon herself to walk
across North Thirteenth street and tell
Mrs. Farmer that her yard looked and
| smelled like pig pen. Mrs. Farmer
didn't say much, but landed With d
\ cxx-ir, o nd q vi ioA I1of x,x=k
Mrs. Gee on the grass. Then Mrs.
Farmer walked to police headquarters
and asked to be allowed to pay fine
4 of 81. She said she had that much
At the ball game yesterday the quar-
rel broke out among the male MEM
bers Of the two families. The players
were using pasture rented by the
| their home. One of the Farmers, Will
or Ed said something to Lee Gee
about what right" he had to use the
park. Lee gave saucy retort. and
said something about his father hav-
| ing told him to use a gun.
| Will and Ed Farmer hiked it home
with A. w. Gee and Lee in close pur-
suit. Each rushed into his home and
| seized firearms. Will Farmer picked up
| a Springfield rifle and a pocketful of
with a double barreled shotgun and
| Lee, his son, took a revolver in hand.
| Who fired the first shot is not re-
corded The firing seemed to burst
from the front windows of each house
simultaneously. j.
| When the injuries were told Off ten
or twelve bullet holes were counted in
the front of the Farmer house and
both houses were pocked with fine
shot At police headquarters a physf-
clan dug five shot out of A. w. Gees
temples and face, a score out of Lee
Gees hands and breast. some quantity
out of William Farmers legs and
hands and three or four from Edward
Farmers cheek and upper lip. None
of the bullets from Lee Gees revolver
struck anybody and no ones injury
is serious.