Poetic Justice In Kentucky.
"Jedge Jim" Hargis, the "King of Breathitt County," Whose
Scepter Was a Shotgun, Is Slain by His Own
Son In His Store at Jackson.
Cite night not lon^ ago n rider made
his way up Hell For Sartln creek
through the darkness. His mule stum
bled over the bowlders. Now and then
he drew up at a safe distance from
some mountain shack huddled In the
shadows nf the pines. As he called
the d<*>r ojiened silently. No light was
shown, but the man of the eabtii step
ped silently out. his Winchester over
his arm, ready for what might come.
"J edge Jim Hargls was kilt today by
his son Reacher." was the low voiced
word of the messenger.
The man of the cabin turued silently
to take the Rood news to his wife. The
Paul Revere of the mountains clucked
to his mule and rode on, carrying the
news that peace had come to a trou
bled country.
When the druuk crazed sou of Jim
TTargis shot his father dead In his store
at Jackson. Ky., there fell a ruler
whose sway over his little kingdom :
was as at?olute as that of the crar i
of Russia. For years there ta-.t been
no law In Rreathitt county. Ky., but
that of Jitn Hargls' shotgun and the
Hargls gnu::. The richest man In the
county, a politician of great power and
for a long time county Judge, Hargls
kept his turbulent constituents under
yed out from the throne and cocked
the shotgun he had been carrying over
hit arm.
'T want to say. doc." he remark ad
pleasantly, "that I ain't got nothing
special agin you. I always liked you
personal."
With that he Ored a load of buck
shot Into the body of the wounded
doctor, who must hare died Instantly.
Dr. Cox bad a close friend. a lawyer,
James B. Marcutu. He was not pleas
ed when be heard that his friend had
ijeen murdered. He was. In fact. In
censed. Moreover, be bad the nerve to
say so He went around Jackson say
ing what be thought about the case.
There whs no particular mystery about
It Every man In town knew the
names of the three meu who bad shot
Cox from the dark, knew where they
stood when they shot him and bow
one of the three bad hesitated until
the other two threatened him. Only
nobody said much about It above ?.
whisper, with the solitary exception of
Ijtwyer Marcum. He very well knew
that he was sending out an Invitation
to death, with R. S. V. P. engraved In
the lower left hand corner, but some
how whenever he thought of his
friend, the doctor, which was pretty
CURT JETT OPENED FIRE ON HIM.
foot by the might of powder and shot.
By that same powder a ad shot he
died with his boots on.
The feud that the Hargls clan has
waged against all Its opponents In
Breathitt county began not long after
the close of the civil war? so far back
that the real ceusc of its origin Is
wrapped ln obscurity. It Is only re
membered that one of the Harglses
was the first victim. He was shot as
he stood one night lu his sugar camp,
?with his arm over the shoulder of his j
newly married wife. Vengeance was j
?worn by the Harglses, and Breathitt
county since that time has been Indeed
a dark and bloody ground. Scarcely ?
a year has passed without one or more '
murders growing from that single rifle
shot ln the dark nearly half a century
ago.
Just how much blood was spilled bo
fore Judge Hargls and his outfit had
closed 'their grip upon the town .of.
Jackson and the county of Breathltf
will never lie known exactly, but the
story Is a fearful one. And perhaps ltj
was only the peculiarly cold blooded
ancl open manner of the assassination ?
of Dr. B. D. Cox that accounts for the j
publicity that followed It.
I>r. Cox was not a feudist. He mere
ly dnred to disobey an order from Har- 1
gis to leave the county. He had no In- j
tlmate relations with either the Har- 1
glses or the antl-Harplses. Ho was a
practicing physician and ln some way
bad been made the legal guardian of
one of the Cockrill boys, whose family
had been for years opposed to Hargls.
The acceptance of such a Job was a
tactical error, for It attracted the atten
tion of Judtre Hargls.
"I have been ordered to get out of
Jackson." Dr. Cox told his friends one
day when he walked down through
Main street "I've got to get out of
here or die, they tell me. But I ain't
going to go. Here's where I've lived
and here's where I'll die when my
time comes. I ain't going to carry any
firearms cither. Jim Hargls can kill
me safe enough If he want* to. If a no
use carrying firearms anyhow. I
wouldn't shoot anybody from behind,
but If Jim Hargls Is going to skoot me
that's the way he'll do It"
That was the wsy he did It sure
enough. That very night as the doctor
was going -hack home after making
a call on a sick man he was shot In
the back from the dark. He fell in his
tracks and lay there groaning A
crowd quickly gathered, and ttie dying
doctor pleaded with them to kill him.
"For God's sake, boys," he moaned,
"put another charge into me. I'm go
ing to die anyhow, Finish It up quick."
One of the bystanders was Curt
Jett, oo? of the Hugls gang. He rtep
nearly all the time, he just couiani
keep still.
But three months passed and there
came no sign from the Harglses. Law
yer Marcum got careless.
One day he stood talking with an
other turtu in the courthouse doorway
Harris looked across the street from
his Htore and saw him. With the Judge
was Sheriff Cailahau.
"Go Kit a *un. Ed." said the judge
"There's goln' to ba aomathln' doln', I
reckon."
At that instant somebody Inside the
courthouse fired, nnil lawyer Marcum
fell dead. Sheriff Callahan ran across
the street, close 1 and locked all the
courthouse doors and admitted not a
soul all uiat day. The same u!ght the
assassin was smuggled out. But three
men had *e*n him. He wna Curt Jett.
who hod s? obligingly slain Dr. Cox
as he lay moaning on the ground.
The killing of Marcum made a atlr
even In Jackaon, and Jim Cockrill.
on the opposite aide of the fence
from the Harglses. was heard to aay
he reckoned he'd have to take steps. -
It wasn't more than C few days later
that Curt Jett walked Into the hotel
dining room where Cockrill was sitting
and opened fire on bLni. Cockrill jump
ed up. and Jett fled. Fighting In the
open was a new game to him. Two
days later came a clear, sunny day
Cockrill, walking down Main street,
crossed the street In front of the court
house. As he did so Curt Jett leaned
out of au upper window and shot bio
down with a Winchester rifle. 8<rwell
known were the circumstances and so
general the expectation of trouble that
the moment Jett showed himself at the
window several voices sailed to Cock
rill to look out. But they were too
latH. Cockrill fell dying.
Jett leaned out of the window and
pumped a few more bullets Into the
body In the street.
"I want to see him squirm!" he
shouted. Cockrill accordingly squirm
ed for a few seconds before be died.
Ever?' soul in Jackson knew all about
what happened. It was as public as a
dog fight. Yet not a move was mad**
to art est Curt Jett until after troops
had arrived. Indeed, a young lawyer
who told a visiting newspaper man
what he had seeu begged the reporter
to give him time to get out of town
before he printed a story about it He
got out of town, too, aud stayed oat
; There wasn't any trouble In Jackson
so loug as the troops stayed. Hargls
had given the word, and his word was
Ian-. Jett was convicted of the mur
j der of .Marcum and Is serving n life
sentence. Hargls never was punished
J for any one Tjf the many ntiMers of
' which lit wus guilty.
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