This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pAB.2ACI/5245.2 Message Board Post: Released From Jail Here, Hall Kills Edgar Boyd, 17 ____________ SLAYER AGAIN IN JAIL, NOW FACES MURDER CHARGE ____________ Special Grand Jury Is Told Hall Shot Youth without Provocation _____________ INDICTED SATURDAY _____________ Released Friday Afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Floyd County jail here, where he had been incarcerated on his failure to execute a peace bond of $10,000. Greenbury Hall, 47 years old, of Harold, this county, eight hours later shot and fatally wounded Edgar Boyd,17, a neighbor, and with- in 24 hours after he had been dis- missed from the jail here was again jailed, this time facing a murder charge. Within two hours of his second im- prisonment here he was indicted on a charge of wilful murder by a special Grand Jury impaneled by Circuit Judge. C.B.Wheeler after the adjournment of the extended September term of the Floyd circuit court. Refused bond, he was remanded to jail. According to evidence produced be- fore the grand jury Saturday after- noon and also taken by County Attorn- ney Joe P. Tackett Sunday in the vi- olnity of the killing, Hall, after pro- curing a shotgun, went to the home of Johnny Hall, where young Boyd was attending a praty, and when within a few feet of Boyd fired the contents of the weapon into Boyd's side. As the wounded man fell, it is said, he fired three shots at Hall, two of which took effect, one bullet striking the slayer in the forearm and another in the fingers. Boyd lived 45 minutes after being shot and before dying made a statement as to the circum- stances urrounding the affair. Sheriff B. L. Sturgill here was noti- fied of the killing Saturday morning at 1 o'clock by telephone and he and Deputy Sheriff M. T. Stumbo left im- mediately for the scene of the shoot- ing. There they were joined by three other deputies, Joe Sturgill, Basil Hamilton and Walker Hall. After searching Hall's home and la- ter trailing the fugitive to the bed of Big Mud Creek, Sheriff Sturgill wired to Huntington for bloodhounds. The dogs arrived Saturday morning and immediately took up Hall's trail, a maze of tracks along the creek bed and adjoining lowland. Though the hounds had not actually sighted Hall, they were circling about his hiding place where he was hidden in the willows along the banks of the creek. He surrendered soon afterward with- out show of resistance, asking only for protection. The capture was made at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and at 2:30 he was in jail here. The following men, empaneled as grand jurors shortly after Hall's ar- rival, here, returned the indictment charging wilful murder: N. Y. Bea- vers, Tom Dingus, Lee Harris, E. B. Brown, Jack Miller, John Banks, J. C. Hopkins, Andy Frasure, Kell Spradlin, B. F. Combs, W. B. Boyd, foreman, W. P. Mayo. The burial was made. Surviving are the ill feeling existing for some time be- tween Greenbury Hall and J. J. Boyd, father of the slain youth. Hall was held in jail here under evidence pro- duced by the Elder Boyd who sought to place Hall under a peace bond. Besides his parents, the victim is survived by a brother and several sis- ters. Funeral Services were conducted Sunday afternoon and burial was made in the Hamilton Cemetery near Har- old.