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lee countytragedyWarren Thompson Kills His CousinWith a Winchester.(Special Dispatch to The Times.) KXOXY1L.DK. TENN-, October 4.-A1 the old homestead o£ “Trip** StevenThompson, Lee county, N a.., neat the Tennessoe line. Warren Thompson, son of Trip Thompson, ■ thot and killed his cousin, Floyd Thompson, son of Long’* 6tev«h ThompRon, with a thirty-two Win-bhester. Ho fired but ono shot, and it killed Floyd Instantly.1Toy a claimed that Warren Thompson's children had been “running over hischildren.Warren Thomson fled for the Tennes-soo lino, and pa*«sed through Mulberry Gap to Tennessee very soon after the killing. “Long** Steven Thompson, the father Df Floyd, was killed In Hancock county some year* ago by the Nett brothers, of Leo county, Ya. Joe Thompson, brother of Floyd, and of Policeman Thompson, at Cumberland Gap. some ten years ago. was killed by Tires Sizemore In Claiborne younty, Tenn., after Sizemore hd received k dotdly shot from Thompson. Both died.The families of both set* of the Thompsons arc of the befct hi Lee and Hancock counties. At Inst accounts, officers wefo trailing: Warren Thompson.
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Richmond Times
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sun, Oct 05, 1902
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