The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-11

cred and death enSued in l.
The scene of the crime was at the
upper end of Brender Canyon, about
five miles above Cashmere. Here
is located the homesteads on which
Mrs. Totten and her mother, Mrs. H.
A. Beebe, located some ten years ago.
The Sutton homestead lies about a
half mile beyond. For some time
a quarrel has been in progress be-
tween the two families regarding
right of way through the Totten
property for a road leading to the
Sutton home. The crisis arrived
yesterday.
On Tuesday, Jim Sutton, the
young fellow whose life has paid the
penalty for a family feud, accompa-
MED by his sister Nettie, young
woman of perhaps IS years, and two
young brothers, Milroy and John,
aged IA and 10 years respectively
drove to Cashmere in a single-seated
buggy. AS they passed the Totten
ranch, barb wire fence was found
strung square across the road. The
driver discovered that he could go
around this by turning out and 60
ing on the other side of a stump on
which the wire terminated. On their
return yesterday, however, they
found even this narrow place had
been blocked by a pile of logs and
brush.
Trouble Was Expected.
Evidently the young man had eX-
pected trouble of this kind, for he
got out of the buggy at once with a
hammer and an old ak and started
to cut the wire While he was thus
at work, two women arose from be-
hind a clump of bushes about two
rods up the hillside on the roadside
They were Mrs. Totten and heI
mother They had been waiting al
this spot all day, having brought
their lunch with them In the morn
ing, although their two homes were
distant only 400 or 500 feet and in
full view of the disputed passageway
The hour was now about AIS p. m
The mother, who is of slight build
and perhaps sixty-five years of age
hurriedly rushed down to where the
young man was cutting the fence.
You leave that fence alone" she
cried. But he kept right on and
soon had the task finished. The
girl, Nettie, meanwhile drove
through, asking as she proceeded
wire fencing, raised it as though
We let you use the road through our
forty" (The Suttons own another
forty acres below the Totten ranch
through which the laid-out roadway
passes). Then Mrs. Totten spoke
up, holding the shot gun in her hands
threateningly: Shut your mouth
or III shoot you"
At the same time Mrs Beebe, the
mother, picked up the ak with which
Jim had just completed cutting the
wire fencing, raised 1t as though
about to strike him but was deferred
by Jim grasping the appraised ak
At the time, he still had the hammer
in his hand and Mrs. Totten claims
he had raised it up in the air and
was about to strike her mother. Mrs
Totten shouted: You strike my
mother and I'll shoot you"
IF you shoot me-" he answered
I'll throw this hammer at you"
At that Mrs. Totten took ieliber
ate aim at the young man and shot
him as already described.
Nettie then leaped out of the
buggy, leaving the two young boy:
behind. She ran up the roadwa!
screaming and evidently fearing fol
her own safety, hid behind load o.
wood. That the Sutton family were
looking for something critical to hap
pen is indicated from the fact tha
the oldest two brothers, Fred ant
Dan, almost instantly appeared from
over the summit of the hill and rush
ed down to their stricken brother
who was now lying in the dust!
road rapidly bleeding to death
Fred hastily examined the wound
found Jim hopelessly injured, beins