OK got the first one finally typed and I figured it would be easier and faster to send them to the lists instead of each person individually, so here number one. Reno Evening Gazette-Dec 29 1936 Accused Slayer is Shot Dead by Victim's Mother ==== Rain of Bullets Startles Courtroom as Trial Opened in Kentucky = Two Spectators Wounded During Melee; Defendant Dies Within Hours = Jackson, KY Dec 29-Johnny Shepherd, charged with murder, fell in court here today under a rain of bullets from the mother of the man he is alleged to have killed. Stray bullets wounded 2 spectators and bruised another. Mother opens fire- The Breathitt County Court, scene of bitter feud trials tin the old days, had just been called to court by Judge George W. Little for Shepherd's examining trial. Deputy Sheriff John E. Rice said Mrs. Viola Wickline, 35, mother of Harvey Gabbard, 17, opened fire without a word, her eyes bulging and face pale. Shepherd, 18, fell in a heap as he sat on the defendants side of the court room. George Shouse, a spectator, was critically wounded. Moss Noble, an attorney, fell with a bullet in his leg. A bullet bruised the knee of Howard More, a spectator. The spectators about 150 in number, fled pell mell. Shepherd was sent to the hospital and upon reports being received that he had died. Judge Little swore out murder warrants against Mrs. Wickline and three others. Others Accused William Wickline, husband of the accused woman; Mrs. Mattie Downs Haddix and Buck Gabbard, a one-legged man, were the other 3 named in the hastily drawn warrants. DeputyRice said Moore declared Mrs. Haddix had fired one of the shots but other eyewitnesses denied she had. All four refused to talk about the case. Gabbard, a son by a former marriage of Mrs. Wickline, was shot to death Christmas Eve. Shepherd, a cripple, was accused of murder and his brother, Noah Shepherd, of being an accessory. Shouse who was shot in the chest was said at the hospital to be suffering from a pierced lung but was expected to recover unless pneumonia set in. He is married and has 3 children. Noble was taken home after a bullet was removed from his leg. Moore, 62, former miner, said his knee cap was bruised by the bullet that went through his hat that which he hung on his knee.