Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-13

JACKSON. Ky, May 13.-Under escort
lahan faction the body of Ed Callahan
feudist and former sheriff of Breathitt
| county, will be laid at rest this afternoon
In Crockettsville. When the news of his
death Saturday night spread 1t caused
more excitement than his shooting from
ambush over a week ago while standing
in the door of his store. The temper o.
the mountaneers is said to indicate ar
immediate reopening of the Callahan
Deaton feud. The circuit court conven
ing May y will take up the assassina
ton.
Death of Callahan.
LEXINGTON, KY, May 13-After liv-
ing nearly eight days with ten bullet
wounds in vital parts of his body Ed
Callahan, formerly sheriff of Breathitt
county and notorious, as leader
Of one of the most desperate
| clans in that feud-ridden district
died Saturday night at II clock in
the hospital at Buckhorn. Callahan was
shot from ambush while standing in front
| of his store at Crockettsville early on the
morning of May A.
He made a dying statement to the
sheriff, who. with a deputy, rode across
the mountains to get it when it was
learned Callahan was growing weaker
Mountain storms have delayed their re-
turn to Jackson, the county seat. The
statement is eagerly awaited
Vain Pursuit of Assassins.
Capt. G. B. Millikin, who went to the
scene with his bloodhounds, secured the
vicinity from where the shots were fired
in search of a trail of the would be-assas-
sins, but had no success.
Within thirty minutes after the shoot
ing posses were out on the bleak noun
tainside, hunting for the implacable foes
of the leaders of the old Hargis fac
ton, notorious for it's relentless war on
it's foes. Callahan had SO many enemies
in the mountains of old Breathitt that
there is no telling to what clan they be-
longed.
Deacon Ed Callahan, sometime sheriff
of bloody Breathitt." began to be
fatally wounded back in 1897. Four
| times since then he has been shot down
and left for dead. Three times he re-
covered to prove himself very much
alive He had faced juries five times,
charged with murder, to leave the
courtroom free. He was farm owner,
storekeeper and church deacon.
Callahan and Hargis.
In Breathitt county, KY the old
timer links as Damon and Pythias the
name of Deacon Callahan with that of
Judge James Hargis. Tall. mild-eyed
and deliberate. with a dropping mus
tache and the SLOUGH hat Of the coun-
try, Judge Hargis lorded it over all
Breathitt with quiet voice and steady
trigger finger. and where he rode there
at his side was the deacon. The Har
gises began their feud, after the war,
in bloody origins now unknown, and
their secret Sayings and being slain
did not become the property of the
country at large until DIR. B. D. Cox, a
matter-of-fa heroic little man, came
tragically into the Cockrill-Ha rgis feud
as guardian of one of the Cockrill chill
dren left fatherless by the feud. There
came to him many times those who
told him that it would be best to leave
Jackson and the range of the Hargis
rife, but the doctor would wipe his eye
glasses, look shyly up and reckon that
he would stay where he was. He was
shot in the back, on the street. coming
from visit to a sick man. Hargis was
brought to trial. and four years later
was acquitted. Lawyer James B. Mar