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Between Kentucky and West Virginia Families and Bloody Battle Is Expected. Williamson, W. Va.—Mrs. Chas. Dan iels and her 16-year-old daughter were shot to death near Devon, Mingo coun ty, by officers and their posse of Pike county, Kentucky. The shooting of Mrs. Daniels and her daughter grew out of a family feud, which has been brewing for some weeks between the Christians and Daniels on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia. The Christians lived in Mingo county, West Virginia, and the Daniels in Pike coun ty, Kentucky. About three weeks ago George Christian ventured to the Ken tucky side and was slain by Jim Dan els, and it is claimed that the mur der was unprovoked and most brutal. Christian and Daniels were brothers in-law, and had formerly been allies, having each served a term in the West Virginia penitentiary upon the charge of murder and shooting to kill. They fell out over a trivial matter and became deadly enemies. After the killing of Christian by Daniels the two families and their friends became in volved, and for some few days both factions have gone about heavily armed. The Christians secured war rants for Jim Daniels and his brother Charles, who was also said to be im plicated in the murder of George Christian, and led by a posse of 16 un der the command of Constable Fer rell, of Pike county, went to the home of the Daniels for the purpose of ef fecting their arrest. The two Daniels boys were at the home of their fa ther, Charles Daniels, near Devon, and it is said that when the officers ap proached within a few feet of the house Mrs. Daniels and her daughter threw open the front door and opened fire with Winchester rifles, one of the posse receiving a bullet in the arm, and Mose Christian, father of the mur dered Christian boy, had his hat shot from his head. The two Daniels boys and their father opened fire from behind the house. Mrs. Daniels was shot down in the doorway, but the 16-year-old daughter stood over her prostrate form and fired upon the posse until she dropped dead across her mother, pierced by three bullets. The officers closed in, but by forfeit ing their lives, the mother and daugh ter had so effectually covered the re treat of father and brother that they made their escape. There are now some 30 armed Christians and their friends on the West Virginia side, and almost a like number of the followers of the Daniels faction on the Ken tucky side. Both factions are armed with Winchesters, and officers say they are unable to control the situa tion, and if either of these factions crosses the line and clash, either Gov. Glasscock, of West Virginia, or Gov. Willson, of Kentucky, will be appealed to.
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Berea Citizen
Berea, Kentucky, US
Thu, Dec 02, 1909
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