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    1. York/Hensley Murders
    2. SHOOTING AFFRAY IN TENNESSEE MAY LEAD TO A FEUD Clinton, Tenn., April 1, (INS) - Five persons were in jail here today, held in conection with two widely separated shooting affrays, in which Boyd York,21, was killed, and, Jess Hensley, 32, a .miner, was probably fatally wounded. The killing of York remains somewhat of a mystery, his body having been found riddled with bullets, near the scene where Dr. W.H. Eblen, mine physician was killed a week ago. Two men, Gomez Taylor and Wilse Bray, are held for York's death. Henry Scarborough and his son, Euella and Marion Childress are held for the shooting of Hensley following a quarrel at a party. The killings keep apace with Anderson county's' weekly records of murders, most of them occurring in the isolated mining section far back in the mountains. Source: Progress, Clearfield, Penn., April 1, 1924

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