HALL, WHITE SHOOTING MYSTERY

THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS
SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN
23 FEB 1925

MARTINS JUNCTION, KY., ------A curtain of mystery dropped suddenly today obscuring completely the causes behind the railroad station battle in which two men were killed and five wounded here Sunday.

Typical of this rugged country the outbreak was followed by a sinister silence, balking every attempt of authorities to penetrate behind the more physical facts of the shooting.

LEWIS WHITE was boarding a train when JOHN HALL, town marshall, accosted him. Both drew pistols and began shooting. WHITE fell dead. The next moment guns were spitting lead on every side. Two hundred bullets were fired.

TALT HALL, deputy sheriff, was dropped dead by the first volley, one bullet over his heart and another through the right eye.

STEVEN FLANNERY, JOHN FLANNERY, DOCK THOMPSON and NORMAN COLLINS fell when their hands could no longer hold their guns.

MARSHALL JOHN HALL, less seriously wounded of all, owes his life to a bullet proof vest. It was dented in ten places, but HALL only suffered a scalp wound and two bullet holes in his right arm.

Police believed the marshall may have gone to the station to arrest LEWIS as a moonshiner and that friends of LEWIS gathered to prevent the arrest.

Transcribed by Ona Hall-Scalf in 2004