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After the quarrel the men returned to the house, but Brown Boon left and went out into the road, where he sat down and, as described by one witness, spent some time apparently in ‘ 'studjg. * ’ While Brown waa Ireturned to tho house Rosa for the loan of an oM shotgun, saying, That nigger tells me that a parcel of dogs are after the sheep. Brown, being given the gun, left the place and went to the home of J. M. Irvine, about a quarter of a mile away, where he exchanged the shotgun for a Winchester rille, with which he had been accustomed to shoot hawks. Armed with the Winchester he then went back to the Hoss-Iliggs home and called loudly for Abe Hoy, daring Hoy to show himself and calling him vile names. Abe Hoy remained indoors, but his brother Perry, who had little idea that Brown meant to shoot, stepped boldly out of the house, lie had hardly shown himself when Brown fired at him. The ball lore a hole in the man’s hat and Perry started to run. The next instant the rifle cracked again and the man fell, pierced by a bullet. Perry laid long enough to leave a large pool of blood to mark the spot where he went down, after which he staggered into the house and fell dead.With Perry Hoy out of the way, Brown charged the house, firing as he advancd. Edward Higgs, llee-ing from the sitting room to the kitchen, fell with a bullet wound in his hip. His eight-year-old son, Cetis following the retreating father, went Sown as the result of a bullet which passed through his neck.At this juncture Brown entered the house firing as he came. At
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Harrisonburg Daily News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Tue, May 10, 1910
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