ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
(1910-1919)
Feb 11, 1912

 

FEUD LEADER AND SON ARE SHOT TO DEATH

 

PIKEVILLE, KY., February 10 -- One of the most noted feud leaders in the BIG SANDY VALLEY, LOUIS HALL, who had boasted of killing twenty-two men, was shot and instantly killed at SHELBY GAP, in the Pine mountains, yesterday morning by CONSTABLE GEORGE JOHNSON and his son, MORGAN HALL, met the same fate a moment later at the same cool hands.  People of that section fear a revival of the feud war.
     JOHNSON had a warrant for MORGAN HALL, who was suspected of operating a "blind tiger," and had openly defied detectives to enter his home at the forfeit of their lives.  JOHNSON followed HALL out of a store to the porch, and was in the act of reading the warrant when HALL made signs of resistance.  The elder HALL, who was 83 years old, rushed out of his home a short distance away, carrying the rifle on the stock of which it was his boast he notched the score of his victims.  JOHNSON at once opened fire, shooting first the father and then the son.

 

NOTE:  Blind Tiger: obsolete U.S. slang. a speak-easy, an illegal liquor saloon. In the prohibition era illegal bars were called "blind tigers" because the premise would have no marking save a stuffed toy tiger in the window.