American Vendetta
POLICE QUARREL COSTS THItEE LIVES* NEW YOiiK, Nov. 11. Ail extraordinary feind, which has already ca'usetl the death of three men, iias broken out between the police forces of two small towns in West Verginia, Montgomery ami Fn.veUoville. At the present moment 2iio residents of Montgomery are searching the mountains for the Fay otteville bund. The trouble began last Wednesday evening, when a Montgomery police, mum named Elliot shot and killed in tho course of a quarrel Walter Jackson, a policeman of Fnyetteville, th causa of the dispute being the rela. t-ive. merits of the polioe forces of the two towns. Jackson's tluve brothers immediately went to Montgomery tOi' take vengeance on tlie mayor and polico t'here.
I'll the meantime tlie Montgomery antlioi'itie.s had suminniwxl tlie county sheritt, but no sooner li-ad this official ap|K.'at';.'d than one of Jackson's lirot-hers slwt him dead and also killed n peaceful, citizen-. For several hours subsequently ihe three broth, er.s terrorised the town, all the resi-l dents keeping injloow. I was sent to a.-. cracß uiarKs> a boSjj
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 31 December 1904, Page 2
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177American Vendetta Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 31 December 1904, Page 2
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