The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-08
NOTED FEUD|ST
WAS FIRED UPON
Ed Callahan the Victim of
Ambushed Assassins.
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STEEL BULLETS FROM COVER
On Mountain Side Near BY
Will Probably Prove
To Be Fatal.
HAS LED AN EVENTFUL LIFE

Jackson, KY, May ed Gala
han, one of the most noted leaders
of the feudal wars of Breathitt
county, was shot from ambush this
morning about 8 o'clock through
the window of his store at Crock
ettsville, a little village in this
county about twenty-five miles from
Jackson. One steel bullet entered
his leg just above the knee and an
other pierced his breast. The lat
ter bali has been located and will
be removed. Several physicians
were at once called in to attend the
wounded man, and at II o'clock he
was removed to the hospital which
is being maintained in connection
with the Buckhorn High School,
about six miles from the scene of
the shooting, where he was late this
evening reported as resting well
with some hope for his recovery.
Callahan operates at Crocketts-
Vile one of the biggest stores in
Breathitt county and has been an
enterprising and prominent bust
ness man. He was defendant
with the late Judge James Hargis
for the murders of James B. Mar
cum and James Cockrell, and Mar
GUMS widow was given verdict of
$4,000 in a civil suit against him
for her husbands death.
The fact that the bullets found
in Callahan's body were of different
sizes leads to the belief that he was
shot by more than one person. The
identity of the would-be assassins
is a mystery.
Callahan was shot from a noun
tain side that overhangs his home
and store. 1t is said that tbe hid
ing place of those who shot Gala
han was discovered by his friends,
who made a search, but no trace
could be found of the men them
selves.>
Since the death of Judge Jim
Hargis and the removal of B. Fult
French to the Bluegrass section of
Kentucky, Ed Callahan was the
most widely-known man in Eastern
Kentucky, and while remaining
quietly in the precincts of his own
home at Crockettsville, since he
was fired upon from ambush two
years ago, he was regarded as the
leader of the old Hargis faction in
the Hargis-Cockrill feud.
Five times did Callahan face ju-
ries in Lexington, Beattyville and
Sandy Hook on charges of murder
growing out of the assassinations
of James b. Marcum, Jim Cockrill
and Dr. B. d. Cox, he having been
a co-defendant with Judge Hargis
in all of the latters trials. At the
time he first became prominently
identified with the feudal fights in
Breathitt county Callahan was
High Sheriff. while Hargfs was the
County Judge, and it was over
contest of their election in Novem-
Der, 1902, that resulted in the feud
between the Hargis and Cockrill
factions and the assassination of
James b. Marcum. May 4, 1903, as
he was standing on the steps of the
Breathitt county court house at
Jackson talking to Capt. B.J. Even.
Good Chance For Recovery.
Lexington, Ky, May "a brief
telegram received from Jackson to-
night states that Ed Callahan, who
who shot from ambush yesterday,
is resting well and 1t is now believ-
lieved he will recover. He is at
the hospital at BuckhoTn, where he
was taken yesterday, and under the
care of skillful surgeons. The hos
pital is supplied with every appli-
ance desired for the best and most
scientific treatment and there is a
trained nurse in attendance.
The telegram from Jackson says
there were mo further develop
meuts." which is taken to mean
that the bloodhounds taken to the
scene bv Capt. Mullikin, of TINS
CITY. have accomplished nothing as
yet.