Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1923 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15, 1923

Hidden Guns 'May Renew Virginia Feud as Garrett Boys Face Murder Juries

By 808 DORMAN XEA Service Staff Writer MBERLAND COURT f OUSE. Va.. Aug. 15.—There is melodrama here. And the tense breathlessness of the mountain feud. For days the murder trials of the Garrett brothers have been dragging on in the little brick courthouse, a 108-year-old relic. They are being tried separately for the killing of ReV. E. S. Pierce, circuitriding pastor of five small Baptist churches in Cumberland county. First the trial of Larkin Garrett, and then of Robert Garrett. The one already has been spectacularly halted, a mistrial; Larkin will be tried again next month, and meanwhile the task of preparing a jury panel occupies the interval before Robert Garrett’s trial Aug. 20. The brothers were indicted for murder—for the death of the minister in a gun duel that followed a bloody fist fight, while the clergyman's wife with her six-weeks-old baby in her arms struggled to save his life. Who Fired First? Who fired first? Larkin or Bob Garrett—or the pastor, his skull fractured, nose broken and face streaming with blood, staggering into his house and out again with a shotgun in one hand and a pistol in the other? Pistols are the fear and dread in the little courthouse now./ Deputy sheriffs, detectives, and policemen borrowed from neighboring towns, patrol the courthouse. Every man entering the courtroom is searched for weapons. There is the dread of a sudden explosion of the feud that has separated this countryside into two hostile camps—such a sudden tragedy as the melodramatic scene of a few years ago when bullets flew in a Virginia courtroom and murder came swift on the heels of just such a murder trial. You must go to fiction to parallel the scene here now: A sleepy country village sky; winding roads, flower-bordered, leading into dusty Main St.: mules with flopping ears, elbowing dingy flivvers; the general store where you can buy anything under the sun. or get into an argpment instanter. Barefoot urchins and their elders in overalls perch like birds on the wooden fence that bars the crowd from the velvety lawn of the courthouse. The stile is guarded, and you must have a pass from Judge B. D. White or from King Adams, 80-year-old sheriff. Many Queer Angles There are many queer angles to this melodrama of a Virginia village Bob Garrett is clerk of the court trying him for murder, and Larkin Garrett is chancellor in chancery A temporary clerk of courts was brought from Powhatan County, and a Judge from Princess Ann County. Politics and family ties make a tangled skein running through the machinery of the law. The Garretts walk about among the deputies and detectives and policemen, arid half the gathered countryside greets them with handshakes and smiles, and the other half stares at them silently, with grim lips. Vigilant officers, tense and watchful In this strange scene to which they have been transplanted, slap pistol pockets indiscriminately at the courthouse steps. Few guns have been found, though—or corn liquor either —for careful persons park both at the little hotel, where seven rooms bulge with lawyers and partisan spectators There is an armistice for the mo-

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SCENES AT THE FIRST OF A SERIES OFS VIRGINIA FEUD TRIALS. UPPER PICTURE SHOWS SIGHTSEERS PERCHED ON THE “DEADLINE” FENCE AROUND CUMBERLAND COUNTY COURTHOUSE. THE STILE AT LEFT BEING THE ONLY ENTRANCE; BELOW SERGT. H. A EDEN OF PORTSMOUTH. VA'. POLICE SEARCHING A VISITOR FOR WEAPONS AT COURTHOUSE DOOR. PORTRAIT AT RIGHT SHOWS LARKIN GARRETT AND AT LEFT HIS BROTHER, ROBERT GARRETT, BOTH ACCUSED OF MURDER.

ment in the smoldering feud of Cumberland County. You observe it best

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MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED Thomas O’Brien Falls Down Stairs at Auto Repair Shop. Thomas O'Brien, 68. of 124 W. Twentieth St., was in a serious condition today at the Methodist Hospital as the result of falling down a fifteenfoot stairway at the Madden & Copple automobile repair shop. 11l E. St. Clair St.. Tuesday. O'Brien is employed by the Capital City Gravel • Company and had gone to the repair i shop to see a friend. O’Brien la said to have poor eyesight. Evansville Man Gets Position Hy Time * Special EVANSVILLE. Ind , Aug. IB—J C. Johnson, secretary of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, has been made chairman of the State Chamber of Commerce secretaries. Johnson is making arrangements for the I State convention of secretaries to be I held here in January.

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