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BULLETS FLEW WHEN FEUD WAS REVIVEDIt |Indiana Village the Scene of Fatal Shooting.■ ■ ■' \Attica, Ind., Aug. 25.—As a result of a bloody affray in the quiet little village of Independence, six miles up the river from this city, Joseph McFerren, a well known druggist, la fatally wounded, and Lewis Wilhite Is in jail at Williamsport awaiting a preliminary hearing on the charge of attempted murder.An old quarrel between the Wilhite and McFerren families was renewed when Wilhite went into the McFerren drug store and started trouble. Arnett McFarren, son of the proprietor, took up the quarrel and ordered Wilhite out of the store. In the encounter following young McFerren shot Wilhite four times with a small revolver. Inflicting only slight wounds.Wilhite vowed he would “wipe out the whole MsFerren family,” and later followed Joseph McFerren to his home, whore he shot him. A little later, in trying to show a friend the manner in which he had shot McFerren, Wilhite accidentally sent a bullet through the neck of Will Reynolds a bystander, just missing the Jugular vein.The whole town was aroused by this time, and Wilhite fled down the river in a boat, the officers in pursuit. He was captured near the Wabash depot In this city by the city marshal from here.
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Connersville Evening News
Connersville, Indiana, US
Wed, Aug 25, 1909
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