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Two well known settlers of the Fort Vermilion district are dead and each has left a wife and fam ily, as the result of an argument over some wheat about noon on Tuesday, on the farm of J. F. “Bud” Porter. It seems that Bill Ware and his step-son, Dick Randle, visited the Porter place to make a collec tion in wheat, and in the course of the discussion Porter shot Ware in the stomach. The gun jammed or, according to the report, Ran dle would have met the same fate as his step-father. Randle seized Porter and was able to hold him while Mrs. Por ter hid the gun. Ware was rushed to the Fort Vermilion hospital but he died of internal hemorr hage two hours later. Porter made a desperate effort to regain possession of the gun, but could not find it. He then went to the home of Sheridan Lawrence and got a gun and shells on the strength of a reasonable story, but evidently it was for the purpose of suicide. Constable Grayson, of the R. C. M. P., who was away on a patrol, returned during the after noon and after reporting the case to headquarters at Peace River, proceeded with special constable Bourassa to the scene of the shooting. Here he found the dead body of Porter, who had closed the case by doing away with himself, and the constable was able to forestall the arrival of a a plane that was ordered to carry a@ posse from Peace River to search for the killer. Mr. Ware had lived in the Fort Vermilion community for nearly fifteen years as a trapper and a successful farmer and he was a prominent citizen and officer of the board of trade. He was fifty six and was born in Alabama. His widow and three step child ren are left to mourn his loss. Porter also was a Southerner and he had lived in the Fort Ver milion district about the same length of time as his victim. He also leaves a widow and five step children.
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Peace River Northern Gazette
Peace River, Alberta, CA
Fri, Mar 05, 1937
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Conrad M.
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