The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-26
SHOT IN BACK BY TEXAS FEUD-
IST
Latest Tragedy i'm a Series of Violent
Deaths Between Texas Families
ShOOtingS We're i'm SaIOOnS-In Sew
eral Cases at TeXarkana Men Have
Met Death When About to Take
Drink.

TeXarkana, TeX.-Another chapter
in the sanguinary 20-year Perry
Hays-3arknIan feud is being written
into the Bowie County criminal rec
ords. This feud has been similar in
its bitter and relentless fighting-it-
out spirit to those in the Kentucky
mountains. On one side have been the
Hays and Perrys and on the other the
Barkmans, and there have been vio-
lent deaths on each side.
The history of this feud, which re-
suited in the shooting by Ed Hays of
Clifford Barkman, 90 years old, a
farmers son, had its beginning in the
early sos, when Frank Barkman, a
pioneer of this section, shot and kill
ed o. D. Perry, a policeman, following
Barkmans trial here for the death of
a young man from Fort Worth who
had been killed in a saloon as he
was taking a drink
In the trial OF the Frank Barknan
case Perry had given testimony
which Barkman considered damaging
to him. One morning some time
later Perry, standing at a saloon bar,
was raising a glass of whiskey to his
lips when Frank Barkman entered
and shot and killed him.
For this Barkman was sentenced
to the Texas penitentiary, but later
was pardOned and he returned TO
TeXarkana, afterWard going to Min
den, La. Not long afterward news
was received here that Barkman had
been killed i'll Minden by a man with
whom he was said to have Quarreled
over a woman.
On Christmas Eve, three years ago,
Joe Barkman, a policeman, brother
Of Frank, was shot and killed in the
saloon of Jim Perry, a son of Police
man Perry, who had been killed by
Frank Barkman. 1t was said that
Policeman Barkman had started for
Perry to arrest him ON a charge of
violating the prohibition laws
For the death of Joe Barkman, Hall
Hays and Jim Perry were arrested
and Jointly indicted. 1t was stated
that Hall Hays confessed later that
he killed Barkman, though the fact
that Perry did not kill Barkman was
due to poor aim and not because he
didn't shoot.
About a year ago Hall Hays was
invited up a stairway into a Justices
courtroom to take a drink" He had
just filled a cup with water for a
chaser" when he was shot to death.
Clifford Barkman was arrested, and,
following a preliminary hearing, was
held on bond, to await the action of
the grand jury on the charge of hay
ing killed Hall Hays.
A few days ago the grand jury took
up the Hall Hays killing and Clifford
Barkman was summoned. He ap-
peared in the morning and was told
he would not be wanted before the
afternoon. He then walked from the
courthouse at Boston to New Boston,
about a mile, when Ed Hays, half
brother Of Hall Hays, who was on his
way squirrel hunting. saw him and
began firing at him with q shotgun.
Barkman was shot in the back, the
forehead and the legs, and a fifth shot
was fired at the sOles of his fee as he
av 81 the &" ind.
Clifford Barkman was taken to a
sanitli ium. aud Ed Hays was pur in
the county jail at Boston, pending
the outcome OF Barkman's wounds.
Jim Perry, who was indicted with
Hall Hays for the killing of Joe Bark
man three years ago, was running a
taXicab service here in September,
when he received a call out of town.
On the way he slowed his car to let
some boys get in for ride In
opening a door, he lost control of the
car and it tumbled down an embank-
ment, killing him.