The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-08-26
A RIOT AT HUNTERSVILLE.
One Man Killed and Several
Wounded as a Result of a
Fierce Fight-The Outcome
of a Deadly Eeud.

Flerce rlght-lhe outcome
of Deadly Feud.
In fierce free-for-all fight at
Huntersville, Mecklenburg coun-
ty, Saturday evening, Reece
Hucks, a well-to-do young farm
er who lived near Croft, received
pistol shot wounds from which
he died a few hours later at st.
Peters Hospital, Charlotte,
where he was taken Immediately
after the fight; Lester Hucks,
brother of the dead man, was
Shot across the back; Mack Cox
was shot in the arm; Ed Cox was
cut and otherwise badly battered
and bruised;Gnd Charles Cox and
Gilreath and Bate Davis were
cut and injured in more CT less
serious fashion. The shooting
was all done by Ed Cox. Reece
Hucks was wounded three times
once in the abdomen, a second
time in, the arm, and again in the
left chest near the heart.
The riot occurred on the main
street in Huntersville. just in
front of the postoffice, and was
witnessed by an immense throng.
For some years there has been
bad blood between the Hucks
brothers and the CoXes, but they
had been keep apart until they
attended the farmers institute
at Huntersville Saturday. Just
as the crowd was dispensing
Bate Davis, a friend of the
Hucks brothers, met Charles
Cox in front of the postoffice
and asked him whether or not he
had killed a dog last summer and
thrown the dead body in his
yard. Cox replied that he had
and had no apologies to offer, and
the fight began at once. 1t is
said that Cox was getting the
better of the fight when the
Hucks brothers appeared on the
scene. They interfered and Ed
Cox, who was watching the fight
between his brother and Davis, al
so Joined in. Reece Hucks is said
to have cut Ed Cox and then Cox
broke away and pulled his pistol,
shooting with deadly effect. At
ter shooting Reece Hucks three
times Hucks fell but regained his
his feet and grabbed a chair and
hit Cox over the head, then fall
ing again to rise no more. Ed
Cox, seeing Lester Hucks and
his uncle, Mack Cox, fighting
near by, emptied his pistol in
their direction, one bullet grazing
Hucks across the back, and a
second striking Cox in the arm.
, Gilreath Davis, who was stand
) ing near by and was also more or
) less involved in the affray, was
} hurt, and so also was Bate Davis,
one Of the principals.
Ed Cox was arrested and plac.
a ed in the Mecklenburg Jail early
! Sunday morning.
t The trouble between the fam
lilies originated two years age
y when Reece Hucks slipped up Il
n the home of Mr.. Charles Cox anC
S stole away his daughter, Mis-.
e Elva Cox, in order that sht
might marry his friend, Rober
! Beatty,who was blind and there
!. fore unable to go after her him
= self. This act on the part O
Hucks the Cox boys never for
f gave. Cox was severely cut, ap
:. parently before the shooting wa
done, and it is thought that tn
t. plea of self-defence will be made
It 1t is feared that the trouble i
n not yet ended, as both familie
n are large and influential and YER
a nervy. Jasper Hinson, grand
It father Of the Hucks boys, kille
IS a man in a saloon in Charlott
l. many years ago and was sentene
d ed to be hung, but the sentenc
h was commuted to life imprisor
ot ment and later he was pardoneG
p REAVFRDAM ITEMS