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ATTORNEYKILLEDcAssailant Then ShootsSelf; Death Near.sOLD FEUD CAUSES TRAGEDYWithout Word, Joseph CoachFires on G. T. Treadgold.SLAIN MAN PROMINENTltt1tiFortiifr Liquor Dealer. Once Prose-cuted by Lawyer, Attack* Him Day After Wire Bringslt; Action for Divorce.MARSHFIELD, Or.. Oct, 19.— r uh- Coach, of Bandtm, walkedup to G. T, Tr«?adgold, a Bsndoa attorney. tonight and. without a word, shothim dead, stepped a few feet away, tin ned the automatic on turns* If an •onl a ,32-eoJlber bullet Into hts own left temp;*. Tretigoid hud just gone for 1 i» vnr at the Coquttle garage when toarh approached and ehot him,Coaclt in In th» Baxter Hotel, uncon-•rtoun. and there la no hope of hiitiurvivlng, IOn approaching- Trrndgold when ho fired the fatal shot, Conch did not say in word. Not hiiii. passer! bet ween the mm, according to A. A. Fowtdl andb\ M. Parkins, witnesses of the tragedy.Tragedy 1‘oIIom, Short Talk.Couch and Treadgold had held a short converhaUun a i^w minutes before on the sC* ps of the Baxter Hotel, but no loud word* were exchanged, nearby per* on s said: : -1The killing is the outgrowth of a feud which bus exlfied between Trend-gold and Joseph and Arthur i.'uaoh for the last five years. Coach had said he had been persecuted by the attorney.Coach wm the .‘ton of a wealthy timber owner, who died Mv« years ago, and inherited one-third of the properly amounting :o several hundred thousand dollars Tip- Coa-h brothers got into litigation on several instances and Trend gold waa frequently opposed to til cm.t.t«iuor Case AuKneatu Blttrroe«H.Two years ago this Fall, Tread Sold,a* prosecutor, brougilt about the con* vlcllon of Joseph Coach at Ban don fur ••lUug liquor to iiuby and I.olil a Simpson, and Couch s .saloon license nr. revoked by the City Council He-* tilting from that prosecution, a libel .lUU was started by G. T. Treadgold ag iltist a Coos County dully newspaper,yubaiHjuvnt to she conviction at Ban-don, the Simpson girls said on oath tlint they wtrti coerced by Treadgold iIIto swearing that liquor was given Hum by Coach, and Coach was released from an indictment in the Circuit Court.Yesterday Joseph Coach was served with a suit for divorce by his wife, and it I* supposed he believed Tread-gold had something to do with promoting it,irratigoltl Not la Caae.Treadgold had taken the ca^e at firstbut lait r turned it over to Claude Giles.of .Myrtle Point, and Tread mo Uls r, umo did not appear iu the papers.G. T Treadgold had blt;^n aprarlti-lng attorney at Ban don for the pust nine 3 ctLi +. wa married, and leaves a wife and two children. Ills father and a brother utid slater are residents of the Ban don neighborhood.Witnesses who were about theg ufs go i*iud that Couch hud been or inking bo fore the .ihooting. Toe ax-fair caused a profound sensation at thecounty scat where Treaogold had been attending a eessioa of the CircuitCourt.IJijtmr ( rtiNBde lilt* I onrli,Treadgold was 33, and had been a successful practitioner. He was City Attorney at the time of his death,hailing been appointed two years ugoby Mayor ^Ucdrgo P. Topping, when there was a need felt for clt-uning up home of the rough saloons in the city. Th* result of the hrst crusade Wits the Closing of the. Joseph Coach and another saloon,Joseph Coach has a lister In, Coqulllc, Airs Leo J. Carey, and a brother. Arthur Coach, of Lamps Creak. He was about 33 cam of age, and was married ia«t year to a Portland woman, who the day before the tragedy sought aSeparation from him.Much of Cokch’a fortune was expended In litigation, and his brother was also a victim Of several cost Illegal affairs. The property of the Coach heirs consists of ranches and limber lands In Coos County, mostly lo the neighborhood of Lam pa Creek.
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Fri, Oct 20, 1916
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