Falmouth Outlook Friday 29 June 1923 Vol. 17 No. 4 Pg. 1 Col. 1 FATAL SHOOTING IN BRACKEN PARIS HAMILTON SHOT BY ED NEAVE, FOLLOWING ALTERCATION AT NEAVE HOME MONDAY NIGHT CHARGE ENTERS VITALS Trouble recalls killing of Nim Showalter at Brooksville several years ago. A fatal shooting took place, Monday night about 8:00 o'clock, at Neave, Bracken county, a small village about ten miles northeast of Falmouth. Ed Neave shot Paris Hamilton in the stomach and chest with a shot-gun. It is stated that Hamilton can not recover, as the entire charge of shot penetrated his vital organs, and his death is only a matter of a few hours. The trouble arose over Hamilton's attention to Neave's sister, which the family strongly objected to. Hamilton came to the Neave home early in the evening and was ordered away. He left in a peaceable man ner, but returned about 8:00 and stopped his machine in front of the Neave home. He called the young lady out to his machine and they engaged in conversation for a few minutes. Edward Neave called his sister into the house. This enraged Hamilton and he got out of the car and started toward the house. He was warned not to come in. In the meantime young Neave had procured a shot-gun and was standing in the yard, and as Hamilton approached he leveled the weapon and fired at a distance of about thirty feet. Hamilton fell, mortally wounded. Hamilton was removed to his home near Brooksville, and physicians who attended him state that recovery is impossible. Immediately after the shooting young Neave called Sheriff Moore of Bracken County, informing him that he had shot Hamilton, and surrendered himself to the authorities. The officers went to the Neave home and took him to Brooksville, where he was given a preliminary hearing and released on $1,500 bond on a charge of shooting to kill. Ed Neave is a son of Joe Neave, and is a young man who has never been in any kind of trouble. The citizens of that community are in sympathy with the family over the sad tragedy. Paris Hamilton is well-known in Bracken County and has a bad cri minal record. About eight years ago he shot and killed Nim Showalter, city marshall of Brooksville, when the officer attempted to arrest him. This crime was one of the blackest ever committed in Brooksville, and attracted State-wide attention. Hamilton was tried and given a light sentence in the penitentiary, and in a few months was back home. Since his return to Brooksville he has caused the authorities more or less trouble. He figured in a drunken melee in that city about two years ago, in which a man by the name of Flanigan was mysteriously killed. Hamilton was known as a desperate characters and was greatly feared. It is said that the Neave family is related by marriage to Nim Showalter, who was killed by Hamilton. We are also informed that Hamilton is distantly related to the Neave family. Falmouth Outlook Friday 29 June 1923 Vol. 17 No. 4 Pg. 8 Col. 6 NO. 13 [Periodic column in the Outlook] In the northern end of Pendleton county, the K.K.K. are gathering from far and near, growing stronger in number each day. I am hoping good results from the organization will bring valuable blessings and good will toward man. ============================== Items of interest to: Doug Harper Biloxi, MS