The Green Forest tribune., 1913-04-11
FATAL SHOOTING IN
 WESTERN DISTRICT
FRANK BERRY KILLS ISAAC WILL LlAMS NEAR EUREKA SPRINGS
 LAST SATURDAY NIGHT.
WAS RESULT OF AN OLD FEUD
Tragedy Followed Drunken BrawI Starting in a Saloon in Eureka
 Springs Few Hours Before.
Prom Mondays Times Echo:

From Mondays Times Echo:
 Whiskey has again taken it's toll of human life, and this time it has come to our very door and caused the death of citizen of this county-Isaac Williams, who was shot and almost instantly killed Saturday night by Frank Berry.
 For a long time there has been trouble between the Berry brothers and Bob Conway, brother-in-law of the dead man.
 Saturday Conway and Williams were in town and, as usual, were drinking. Conway is a good enough fellow when sober, but whiskey makes him quar- relsome and contentious. En route home these brothers-in-law met up with Frank and Walter Berry and trouble ensued, but it was only war of words and the intoxicated men passed on, the brothers making their way home more leisurely.
 Mrs. Conway and Mrs. Williams are sisters and had spent the day together at the latter's home while the two husbands were in town. When the men reached home, the women saw they were under the influence of liq- uor, and tried to keep them from re- turning to the highway to intercept the neighbors when they should pass that way. But Conway told Williams he'd beat him to death if he refused to join him in getting satisfaction from the brothers.
 According to the Berrys' statements, when they drove along Grindstone mountain they were attacked by the two men with whom trouble had been brewing, and when the aggressors be- gan to pelt them with stones, standing on the mountain above them, Frank Berry ordered them to quit. No notice being given to this he first fired into the air, hoping to frighten the men. But the shower of rock continued, and realizing that there lives were in danger, since they must yet circle the noun tain, Frank Berry fired In the dark ness of the night, he said there was no other alternative, as a protection to himself and brother. Berry thought he was firing at Conway. but struck Williams instead.
 The wounded man ran toward home and fell within 20 or 30 feet of his own yard gate. Conway likewise ran and fell into the doorway of the Williams home.
 Mrs. Conway ran to the roadside up- on hearing the trouble, and finding her brother-in-law prostrate on the ground, raised his head to her lap She found he was dead. She sat there watching by the dead man until morning Mrs. Williams has young baby and could not even go to her dead husband.
 Telephone messages were sent to the officers here and to Coroner At kinson of Berryville, but it was morn ing before anyone reached the scene.
 A coroner's inquest was held, the jury returning verdict that Williams came to his death by shotgun wounds inflicted by gun in the hands of Frank Berry.
 The shotgun was borrowed from Tom Crews, just little ways above where the men met. Berry called Crews out and asked the loan of the orI1p covipo ba vuoptod +o l,;Il n +,,,,l,o,, but after getting possession of the gun he told MT. Crews about the trouble and said he was a little bit afraid to pass Williams house-that he might need something as means of protection. As the brothers drove off, Crews begin to wounder if he had acted wisely in letting Berry have his gun. so he followed the wagon, having hogs to look after at the lower end of his field, as an excuse for "butting in" He reached the scene of battle just as Berry shot.
 Conway has not been seen since.
 Sheriff Coffey, Constable Gordon and Deputy Campbell went out in the morning, getting there soon after the coroner arrived.
 The prisoner was taken before Coun- ty Judge Naples to-day, the coroner's jury merely having returned verdict of death and the cause, without plac- ing the degree of guilt of the man responsible for Williams death.
 The widow is very young woman.