THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
1910-1919
FEB. 11, 1912

 

NOTED FEUD LEADER KILLED
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SLAYER OF 22 MEN, TOGETHER WITH SON, SHOT BY CONSTABLE

 

PIKEVILLE, KY.,  FEB. 10 -- One of the most noted feud leaders in the BIG SANDY VALLEY, LOUIS HALL, who had boasted of killing 22 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 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 defied detectives to enter his home.  JOHNSON followed HALL  out of a store to the porch, and was in the act of reading the warrant, when the elder HALL, 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.