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|CH|LDREN'S QUARREL:
| CAUSE Of SHOOTING
Two Persons Die of Wounds and
Third May Be Fatally Hurt-Three
Others Also Injured by Shots in
Clover Textile Worker Fires
Fro DPorch Into Group.

York, Sept.6.-Taking up chill
r. dren's quarrel and using shotgun
f. loaded with buckshot, William C.
Faris, 90 textile worker of Clover
ten miles north of York, killed Claude
JohnsoH 81, and Newton Taylor, 13,
and wounded Fred Taylor, 18, Miss
Leila baylor, Is, and Dollie Taylor
b. );
johnson was killed instantly. New
ton Taylor died one hour later on the
operating table of a hospital in Gas
, lonia, N. c.. IL miles distant, where
all the wounded were hurried i'm
nediately. He suffered 81 perfora-
- lions of the intestines and died as the
path puncture was being sewed up.
Fred Taylor is not expected to live
a. according Ito information from the
hospital at 7 o'colck tonight. He was
Ehot through the lungs and will likely
bic. The other victims of the tragedy
are erpected to recover, though Miss
e. Gertrude Taylor will have paralyz-
= nerves.
kd arm as the result of severed
Following the shooting, Faris sur
I. rendered to John A. Jackson of
Clover, chief of police, who lodged
him in the York cuonty Jail at 4
o'clock. On account of the excite
(nent and indignation prevailing in
Clover which made mob violence a
Possibility, Sheriff Fred E. Quinn
look Faris out of the York Jail at
6o'clockk this afternoon and removed
= aim to another place. Sheriff Quinn,
accompanied by Policeman R. E.
6teele of York, left with his prisoner
j. n an automobile and from the direc-
lion taken it is presumed that they
= went to the state penitentiary in Co
umbia. There was open talk in
Glover of melting out summar ~ pun
y shment to Faris
An inquest will be held tomorrow
morning being postponed from this
afternoon on account of the absence
of coroner Paul G.. McCorkle of
York.
Faris did the shooting from the
front porch of his home, firing across
narrow street into the Taylor yard
Immediately opposite.
4 quarrel between the children OF
The two families is said to have
= precipitated the tragedy. 1t appears
that the children were quqarrelling
: about we'll used pointly by both
families when Faris plunged into the
agar by getting his shotgun and
D., ming fire at all the Taylors in
sight. So far as is known, all OF
Them were shot down without offer
ling any resistance. Though there
were several eye witnesses, some OF
the details of the killing are conflict
ling, and it will take an inquest to
clear them up. Johnson was rela.
hive Of the Taylors and lived with
them. The well that was the source
: of the trouble was recently cleaned
out by Faris, it is said, and his child
rem accused the Taylor children OF
throwing trash into it and otherwise
polluting the water.
Faris said after the killing that he
had threatened and some morg-
had been threatened by the Taylors
ne declined to talk about the affail
rhen in the York Jail this afternoon
Faris has been living IN Clover to1
,everal years and is native Of
SrSern York. He has wife anc
o,s,ral children. He bears the repu
Inn of being a dangerous man, hav
ns figured in many rows of mino'
1.,re. He has retained Thomas F
h,.r,su to defend him, it is under
.,oa Criminal court convenes here
1, ,asy. but it is not likely that hi:
,oss will be heard then. The Tay
~ family moved to Glover from Gas
:, 81. months ago. J. NJ. Taylor
o.S Of the family, was at work IL
nil Of the Glover Manufacturing
=, nps,y when the killing occurred
.;fr Fred T. Quinn Of York anC