The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-01-18
Near Tragedy Of Yesterday at Glib
son Lake Fans Flames of Long
Standing Feud Between Two
Well Known Families-Devel-
Opments of Next Forty.Eight
Hours Will Determine Outcome
Of Wound.

who was shot yesterday morning by
Yancey Carter, today is not consid
cred necessarily critical. Palmer was
rushed from the scene of the shooting
or Gibson lake, to the Morrell Hos
5pital, where the operation took place
about the middle of the afternoon.
The operation was performed by Drs.
Griffin, Watson and Groover. Four
punctures were found in the intes-
tines. and these were stopped up the
surgeons in difficult operation. One
Of the load of buck-shot, fired from
the gun OF. Yancey Carter, entered
yCung Palmer's stomach, just at the
lower edge of his vest, and ranged
toward the left, lodging in the fleshy
tissues just above the left hip bone.
The buck shot was removed in the
operation.
DR.. Griffin stated today that the
chances for Palmer's recovery were
reasonably good However, it would
be about forty-eight hours before evi-
dences of the final outcome developed.
Palmer's Family Watches Condition
Frank Palmer, father of the wound
eG boy, Mrs. Palmer and young baby.
Mrs. Talmadge Palmer, and Joh.r
Reynolds and wife, who are relatives
of the Palmers, remaining in town.
and as near young Palmer as they are
permitted to go. They have some
hope of his recovery.
UP to this afternoon no warrant
had been issued for Frank Palmer,
charged with shooting at the Car
ters. He was in consultation with
Sheriff Logan. Constable Marshall,
and the police department this morn
ing.
Yesterday afternoon Frank Mar
shall went before Judge j. D. Allen
and swore out warrants, charging
Yancey Carter and son Gibson Carter
with shooting and wounding with in
tent to kill. The warrants were served
and the Carriers each gave a five hun
dred dollars bond
They are to appear in thee .ounty
court in February to answer to the
charge, provided Talmage Palmer re-
covers and is able to be present as
the prosecuting witness at that ime.
If he dies, of course, the warrants
will be changed to murder.
The Palmers this morning spoke
in very bitter terms against the Car.
ters. They claim ehe Carriers have
been trying to make everybody afraid
of them, and have acted over-bear~
ing.
One of them stated this morning
that all the Carriers were armed, in
cluding Miss Sarah Carter, who first
came to the Palmer field to see about
her pet pig that had been missing
She says she found the Palmers at
that time cutting off the ears of the
animal.
The Carriers came to Polk county
several years ago from Georgia. A
few years ago Gibson Carter, in an
encounter with "Pistol Pete" Jones,
was so badly wounded his recovery
was not expected, there being awound
through his head and through his
stomach. Scars still indicate the Sc
riousness of the wounds.
From the best information OBJ
tainable by the officers, Gibson Car
ter used a Krag-Jorgenson 80 rife.
He is the one whit. it is said, fired
into the Palmer home during the
shooting. II just wish you could
see my house," said Frank Palmer,
this morning; zone side of it is full
of bullet holes, and the shooting like
to scared all the children to death.
One OF the children was so frightened
ii ran off and hid and we didn't find
Ii for some time"
In statement issued by Yancey
Carter yesterday afternoon, he said,
In part: II sent my daughter Sarah
ever to the Palmers OF get one OF
our hogs. She found young Palmer
beating it, and he cut its ears off
Just as she came up. She came back
and told me what the old man had
aaid. that he had cussed her and
asked her why the old man was afraid
70 come over and always sent her.
& fail you why / sent her, and it. was
Just because wanted to- avoid trou-
bie I, said he. II took my shotgun ant
iIad only two shells in 1T, and on ths
t|kS lost one Of them They were ex-
b6flaS fl1 ~ come lha regular pasl