The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
C. F. Thompson of St. Clair Under Arrest Charged
 With the Shooting
TROUBLE AROSE
 OVER A CONTRACT
Shooting Occurred in Presence of Six Witnesses-The Wounded Man Suc- cumbs to His Wounds After Be-
 ing Rushed to Birmingham

c. S Hall, aged 10 years, was shot and |, fatally wounded yesterday morning at S:i5 o'clock by C. F. Thompson at St. Clair Springs S2 miles from Birming- ham. Thompson was arrested by deputies and lodged in the Ashville jail Hall died in u local infirmary after being brought here
 Hall and Thompson were contractors at that place and the shooting grew out of some trouble In regard to contract. The deceased was shot once in the ab- domen and once in the lung. Immediately after the shooting the wounded man was put on train and sent to Birmingham. He arrived at l0:20 o'clock and was brought to local infirmary, where every medical attention was given him. De- spite the efforts of the physicians he succumbed to his wounds yesterday aft ernoon at o'clock
 Statement by Ingram According to Bert A.. Ingram, local real estate man who was ill St Clair Springs when the shooting occurred, Thompson was angry with the deceased because he had received job that Thompson thought he should have gotten
 w. c, Beck, formerly of Birming- ham, and now located at St Clair Springs, had several small contracts to let on his place, said Mir. Ingram. He gave one of the contracts to- Thompson a few days ago and he was supposed to go to work on it Monday morning. When Monday came Thomp- son dd not show up and Mir. Beck accordingly gave the job to Hall. Wednesday night Thompson returned to St. Clair Springs and learned that Hall had gotten the contract lie be- came very much wrought up and went to MT Beck's house and informed him that there would be funeral If Thompson drove nail in the job He then went to the home of Mir. Thomp- son and told him the same thing after some heated words. 1 arrived at the Springs yesterday morning at o'clock and was met by MT. Hall, who drove me to MT. BecS's house. Not d word was spoken about the trouble.
 Version of Shooting
 MT. Hal went to work on the job Thursday morning as usual. About o'clock, according to more than six witnesses, Thompson came down the railroad track and walked over to where Hall was working Come here want to talk to you, Thompson is alleged to have said. According to the witnesses, Hall walked toward him.
 
 tree and fired one shot at the de- ceased. Tue ball struck him in the shoulder. Now come on and sit down, 1 want to talk to you said Thompson. Hall replied: My God, man, you have shot me through and through Without answering, Thomp- son shot again and the bullet took eff feet in tho abdomen,
 Hall fell to tho ground mortaly wounded. Thompson then cursed sev- eral times and. turning to the crowd, said: I have another man to get yet Unmolested, he walked away. A mes senger came to the house of MT, Beck and told him Hall had been killed and that Thompson was looking for an- other man.
 MT. Beck thought he was the man Thompson was looking for. so he started up the road. followed him and in a few minutes we saw Thomp- son coming toward us. As he came abreast of us, Beck stopped him and said:
 Well, what have you to say?' Thompson replied that he did not get square deal. Beck told him in plain language what he thought of him and informed him that he had better come with him while he called deputy to put h;m under arrest. We walked to St. Clair Springs we having met Thompson about three miles from that piace. and called deputy. who ar \rested him on the charge of murder and brought him to Ashville for safe keeping
 The remains of the deceased arc being held by Johns pending funeral arrange nents. which will be announced. later. Both nacn hayo families.