The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-16
TROOPS STILL
IN MEANWHILE
Little Danger Of Further
Trouble.
INJURED MEN ARE MISSING
Two Participants Were Carried
Away by Friends.
said to Have started the Duel which
Resulted In Two Deaths
and Injury to Five

Meaoyille ID still DeinE patroiieu Dy
State troops and the civil authorities
are taking every precaution against a
possible recurrence Of bloodshed. fol-
lowing yesterdays feudal battle. In
which chancery Court Clerk A. NJ.
Newman and Silas @. Reynolds were
killed and Eve other men wounded,
the situation tonight, seemingly holds
little prospect Of further encounters.
DIR. Lenox Newman. SON Of one of
the slain men, was taken to Natchez
today for medical treatment, and re-
ports received from there tonight, In
dictate little hope of his recovery. Err
nest Newman, another son, and Her
bert Applewhite. q lawyer. who were
also wounded in the encounter, are
likewise in sanitariums In Natchez. II
is thought that their wounds will not
prove fatal. Neither w. L. Boyd nor
Virgil Farr, who are alleged to have
first opened fire on DR.. Newman and
who were both wounded, have been
apprehended and II is not known how
serious their injuries are.
The accounts of witnesses to the
battle are in many respects conflict
ing. 1t Is claimed that DR.. Newman,
as he was driving along theastreet In
his buggy was fred upon from a room
IN the beCOHu STORY Oh the 6utlef
building. by Boyd and Farr, and that
as Newman jumped from hts buggy
and approached the entrance to the
building he was attacked by Reynolds
and Applewhite. Sam Me- man. q son
of DR.. Newman, is said to have APP
peared almost Immediately Just across
the street and opened fire with q re-
peating shot gun, upon the men In
the second story room and TO have
subsequently made his way to the
immediate scene OF the duel. DR..
Lennox Newman who was at the home
of his sister, two blocks away, mount
ed his horse and hurried to the place
of conflict when he heard the first
shots. He was shot by some one about
two hundred feet from the scene, but
managed 20 dismonnt and supported
by his sister and another lady pros
ceeded on his way. He had only gone
q few feet wfieN he tgas dis&bied By
Eugene Eugene al ana Monroe newman two
other sons Of Or. Newman. were IN q
billiard hall block from the point
of the tragedy when the fusilade be-
gan and It Is stated, were in few
moments engaged In the conflict. Err
nest Newman, another son of the
chancery clerk, was In the once of
his father, In the court house, a short
distance away and was wounded in
the leg as he emerged from the build
ing.
wounded Men Disappear.
Immediately after the shooting.
Boyd and Farr were discovered
wounded In the Butler building by
County Treasurer Cain, who went out
to notify the sheriff: Upon his return
he found that Farr had disappeared,
but Boyd was lying on the floor, ap-
parently in q dying condition and
Cain went out again to summon a
ed upon the officers second return. n
is believed that he was carried from
the building.
The tragedy undoubtedly was indi-
rectiy, II not directly. due to the Ill
feeling that has existed between the
Newman and Prichard factions here
for many month@ which bitterness
had it's inception in q political cam
paign, In which Newman opposed one
of the Prichard family for the once
of chancery court clerk. The nrst
tragedy to result from this feud, oc-
CURED a few months ago, when DR..
Newman shot and killed Cornelius
Prichard here. DIR. Newman was a
few weeks ago acquitted on the
charge OF murder which followed.
= w. L. Boyd. was one Of the prin-
cipal witnesses against Newman at
the trial. Applewhite, considered a
member of the Prichard faction, was
wounded In the encounter between
Newman and Prichard. Silas Rey-
nolds, who was killed yesterday, was
a brother of lady Of this place.
whose husband Is said to have receive
ed a letter a few days ago rejecting
on her character. and which 1t was
charged had been written by DR..
Newman. DR.. Newman, when appris-
ed OF this rumor, however, entered a
vigorous denial of the authorship of
the letter. Farr, who lives several
miles in the country from Meadville,
is reckoned as an intimate friend OF
Boyd.
Sam and Eugene Newman and L.
p. Prichard, who were arrested last
night for participation In the tragedy,
were released today on bond, pending
their preliminary hearing next Mon
day DR.. Lennox Newman, Ernest
Newman, and Applewhite. were also
formally placed under arrest, but their
commitment trial. owing to their In
juries, Is indeterminate.
The tension existing as the result
of yesterdays tragedy and through
fear that a general riot might ensue.
was intensified today by a report that
Theodore Clay, a member Of the board
of supervisors Of Franklin parish, had
been shot and mortally wounded by
Deputy Sheriff Wren Jones. 1t de-
veloped, however, that the shooting
was purely accidental Jones was en-
gagged in unloading a magazine gun,
when the accident occurred. Clay u
not expected to live.
aOsE DE PAUL PRoTESTs.