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New York Times May 1,1929 FOUR DEAD, TWO WOUNDED IN KENTUCKY BATTLE Woman and Boy Among Slain After Argument at Still in Mountains Paintsville, Ky., April 30 Six men, a woman and a boy gathered around a moonshine still in a mountain hollow ten miles from here last night, got into an argument which ended in pistol fire, and today the woman, boy and two of the men were dead, two men wounded and county authorities were looking for the other two. Sheriff Hapley Adams, going into the Riceville neighborhood early today to investigate reports that there had been a shooting, met an old-fashioned horse-drawn sled-still a common vehicle where roads are not good. On it was a wounded man, Wayne Hannah, 32, lying beside the body of his brother Wallace Hannah, 34, and the bodies of L.E. Gibson, 45; his wife, Mrs. Cassie Gibson, 35, and their son Bernie, 16. A neighbor was driving the sled. The bodies were taken to the home of Zena Johnson, father-in-law of Gibson and of Wallace Hannah. Wayne Hannah was brought to a hospital here. The sheriff found two large moonshine stills near the place where he met the sled coming out of the woods. The wounded man at first refused to talk, but when he was told that the bullet in his lung would probably cause his death, he told the authorities that the shooting had occurred while eight persons were around the still. He refused to name the other three, but one of them Benny Saylor, appeared later and surrendered. His arm had been broken by a bullet. Hannah insisted that he and Saylor were the only persons in the gathering who were carrying pistols. Authorities were inclined to regard the shooting as the outcome of a family difficulty rather than disagreement over the liquor business. Four murder charges and a shooting and wounding charge were placed against Saylor. He said that the shooting was the result of a drunken quarrel. |
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