The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-09-19
KILN at Lead
wood Sunday Night

Raymond Albaugh, aged "a years,
of Leadwood, was shot and killed
with a shotgun in the hands of Ed.
Smith last Sunday night between 10
and IL o'clock. The shooting occurred
about 25 or 80 yards from the home
of Smith.
-Albaugh and Smith had apparently
been good friends until few minutes
before, the tragedy. They had both
worked in the lsame mine together
and it is reported that Smith had said
on several occasions that he thought
more of Albaugh than he did his own
brother.
John Albaugh and family, Of near
Pennington, were visiting his brother,
Raymond, and family last Sunday and
about six o'clock that afternoon Smith
came over to Albaugh's home and IN
vited him and his company over for
a social visit with him that night.
The Albaugh families went over 10
Smiths home and were having gen
eral good time when Smith, who mad
been partaking rather freely of home
made wine and other intoXicants, be-
came, it seemed, anxious to start trou-
BILE. The testimony brought out at the
inquest shows that he seemingly be-
came enamored with Albaugh's wife
and when his wife (Mrs. Smith, re-
buked him for it, he struck her and
knocked her down. The Albaugh fam
lilies, seeing that trouble was brewing,
prepared to go home, and Raymond
jokipgly said TO his wife, Come on,
old lady," or some such remark
Smith is reported to have said to Al
baugh, "You can't abuse your wife
when Pm around" and when Albaugh,
who thought Smith was only joking,
retorted again, Smith struck him and
knocked him to his knees, Several
blows passed, but the fight was stop
ped by John Albaugh and the women
folks.
Smith became very enraged when
his fistic encounter with Alhaugh was
cut short, and secured a shotgun and
threatened to kill both the Albaugh
brothers. The gun was wrested away
from him by Mrs. Albaugh, who Sc
creted it in a wardrobe.
The Albaughs then started home
and had gone only twenty-five or
thirty yards when they noticed Smith,
in a great rage, coming after them
with the shotgun. When he ap-
preached close to the group Mrs.
Raymond Albaugh talked with him
and tried to persuade him that there
was no hard feeling and plead with
him not to have any. trouble with
them. Smith lowered his gun and
pulled the trigger, the load entering
AIbaugh's body slightly to the right
of the pit of the stomach. He
groaned three times and fell over
dead Mrs. Albaugh, who had been
pushed aside by her husband, was un-
injured.
The body was taken to the Boyer
Undertaking establishment, where
the inquest was held Monday by Cor
oner Prather. The body was then
brought to the home of the father of
the deceased, A. A. Albaugh, at Elec-
trio Place, where the funeral services
were conducted Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. o. H. l.. Cunningham. Inter
ment was made in Parkview cemetery.
Albaugh, who was raised near
Pennington, comes of a good family
and has always been known as hard
working, honest man. He was mar
ried and is survived by his widow and
two children.
Smith is a man with fiery temp
per and an Unsuitable desire to fight.
He is considered somewhat of bull
ly by those who know him and on num-
erous occasions he has shown his
prowess as scrapper, simply be-
cause of desire to do so. He was
straw-boss in one of the mines at
Leadwood and because of his treat
ment of the men under him, nearly
all of them quit. Recently he was
discharged and it is the belief Of
many that he thought Albaugh was
been biding his time to "get evep.'
He was placed in Jail Monday te
await the preliminary trial which will
take place some time next week.