The Washington times., 1922-10-01
FAMILY FEUD LEADS
TO FATAL SHOOTING
James A. Curran Dead, Wife
Wounded, and Joseph A.
Tighe Missing.
Continued from First PagcJ


Creek Park and Chevy Chase to no
avail. The missing man. they be.
lieve, still carries the revolver with
which he Is alleged to have fired the
shots which killed one Of his neigh.
bors and wounded another.
Benjamin Snyder, neighbor OF
Tighe, heard the two shots and rush.
ed to the road. He saw Curran's
body stretched out on the road. with
the PROSTATE form of his wife lying
upon 1t. A hurry call was sent for
the police. and the patrol OF the
Seventh precinct rushed the couple
to Emergency. Curran, the doctors
say, probably died instantly.
The Currans and Tighes live with.
In a stones throw of each other
They have been at odds for several
months, the neighbors say. The
trouble began, II Is said, when Tighe
attempted to stretch barbed.wire
fence on Curran's property. The lat.
ter protested.
The homes Of the Currans and
Ford road, just below the military
road.
Tighe is regarded by neighbors as
enty.year-old mother, q former school
teacher in Memphis. Tenn. The nome
Is oddly constructed. II was de-
signed by Tighe.
Oddly Built Home.
The home Ia a four.storv structure
and looks like a tower. 1t is about
fifteen feet square and built on a
twenty.foot concrete foundation. It
is about seventy feet high and has
four stories. There Is only one room
on each floor, and wooden stairs lead
upward. The top floor is fitted as a
sort Of sleeping porch, and here Tighe
is said to carry on his work as an
architect.
Surrounding the house is a barbed
wire fence about twenty feet in
height. There is only one entrance
to the grounds.
Neighbors say that Tighe con.
structed the home as a model and
that he intended to show the house
as an example of what could be ac-
complished in this new sort OF house
building. He contended, II Is said,
that he could build a structure 200
stories In height on the same prin'
ciple.
Police made a thorough search
OF the home and grounds. They
found Mrs. Tighe In bed. She gave
the police little assistance and
ridiculed them when they told her
that her son had been doing some
shooting. She. declared, ut couldn't
be him, II must be somebody Else"
After the shooting Tlghe is SAID
to have run up the road in the IL.
rection of the park. lie passed the
home OF Rudolph Kauffmann, and has
not been seen since. The police say
that Tighe carried a revolver when
he left his home yesterday.
James Curran Was employed as a
foreman In the surface division "
the District government. Tighe, un'
tn seven months ago, was private
secretary to Maj. Gen. Hatsutaro
Hsraguchi, military attache to the
Japanese embassy.
Several months ago he reported 20
the police that a collection OF diplo'
matte correspondence, valued at $2b,'
900. was stolen from his home.
Headquarters Detectives keck and
Bradley investigated. No arrests
were made. however.
Told Police Suspicious.
Several weeks later Tighe again
called on the police. Two more de.
tectives came to the house. They
found Tighe. on the fourth floor OF
his oddly constructed home, sitting
naked at drawing table. Tighe
told them of his suspicious, but he
had no direct evidence and no
arrests were made this time.
Tishe IN said to have an office
downtown at a building near Fiji.
teenth and I streets. Inquiry last
night revealed that he rents an
entire floor and sublets. the rooms.
He is said to have a key TO one or
two of the rooms.
Headquarters Detectives Lynn,
Cox, Sweeney and others took part
In the search last night. Inspec.
tor w. S. Shelby was also on hand.
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