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Found by Officers In Moun tain Home FRAZIER BLEEDING 10 DEATH Was Alive Late Last Night but There Is No Hope of Recovery—Man Who Fired Shot Claims Affair Was Accidental and Denies Quarrel or That He Took Breeden’s Money After Shooting Him. Joseph Breeden, who shot William (Humpback) Frazier Tuesday morn ing on the Blue Ridge Mountain near the Rockingham Greene line, was captured early yesterday morning in a house a short distance from the scene of the tragedy. Frazier was still living late last night, but no hopes are held out for his recovery. He is slowly bleeding to death. Breeden told members of the posse, who took him to Stanardsville, the county seat of Greene County, that the shooting was accidental. He said he and Frazier were on their way to a secluded corner in a nearby field, when he hooked his foot in the root of a tree. As he fell, the shot gun, which he was carrying, was dis charged. The prisoner denied that there had been a quarrel between himself and Prazier or that he had threatened to kill the latter. He did not explain, so far as could be learned by tele phone from Stanardsville last night, why he ran from the scene after Frazier fell and remained in hiding until the officers learned that he was hiding at the home of Martha Lewis on Parrott Mountain, a quarter of a mile from the place. Breeden said e took none of Frazier’s money whic was missing after the shooting. Frazier made a statement to the officers yesterday, in which he is said to have asserted that Breeden delib erately fired at him, following words over a card game There were no eye-witnesses to the shooting, al though several men were within a short distance and ran to the wound ed man's assistance upon hearing the shot. Breeden will not be arraigned un til there is a definite outcome of Frazier’s injuries. He is held with out bail . Constable Silas Shifflett was ac companied by George Morris and Lawson Shifflett, when Breeden was arrested at 2 o'clock yesterday morn ing. The accused made no resist ance. Dr. L. H. Lewis, of Elkton, was called to Frazier’s bedside early yes terday evening by Dr. Kyger, of Stanardsville, who is attending the wounded man. Dr. Kyger telephoned to Elkton that there was no hope of saving Frazier’s life, as the man had lost a great amount of blood and it as impossible to stop the internal emorrhages. Dr. Lewis was not ex ed to return to Elkton until this morning. Frazier is a brother of Joseph Frazier, who was tried in the Cir cuit Court of Rockingham last win ter, charged with causing the death of his wife by ill treatment imme diately after the birth of her child. He was acquitted. His brother was active in his behalf before and dur i po the trial.
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Jan 08, 1914
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