PISTOL - TOTING KENTUCKIANS
TAKING FURTHER STEPS TO REDUCE POPULATION

THE HELENA INDEPENDENT
HELENA, MONTANA
23 Feb 1925

PISTOL - TOTING KENTUCKIANS TAKING FURTHER STEPS TO REDUCE POPULATION

By: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Martin Junction, KY, Feb. 22 (1925) ---- Two men were killed, including a deputy sheriff, and five others were wounded during a gun battle here today.

The dead are: Talt Hall, deputy sheriff of Floyd County, and Lewis White.

John Hall, town marshal of Wheelwright, KY; Steven and John Flannery; Dick Thompson and Norman Collins were wounded.
Authorities declared White and John Hall met as the latter was boarding a train here shortly before noon. The men are reported to have exchanged a few words and then to have pistols. The shooting is then reported to have become general. During an exchange of shots among an undetermined number of men, more than 200 shots were fired.

Said. Feud.
Two versions of the shooting were circulated here tonight. One was that a feud existed between White and the Halls and another was that the Halls were attempting to place White under arrest.

Transcribed by Ona Hall-Scalf in 2004