FAMILY FEUD
SLAUGHER IN KENTUCKY. V TEN GUNMEN KILLED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegro ph.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, January 18. Kendal strife among Kentucky mountain families over the week-end resulted in ten persons being killed, and five being wounded. Worship was in progress in the New Salem Church, twelve miles outside Louis- \ ville, when six men met in the churcn * yard. The roar of pistols caused the con-.-C gregation to scatter. The men’s aim ' wjis SO good that all six of them were JJft on the ground, being quite dead. “They fought over the good name of a girl aged seventeen years’ said Sherriff Steele, who predicted further clashes. hours after the first shooting, two men grasped hands, and shot each other dead. Four others died when the relatives of the previous victims clashed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 5
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132FAMILY FEUD Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 5
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