Asheville, Nov. 14—The hand of an old mountain feud has again cast its shadow across the wooded hills of North Carolina, and this time a leading citizen of his community was killed and his slayer died as the result of three wounds inflicted during a duel which occurred on a mountain road in Madison county, close to the Tennessee line.
Dr. O.R. Burnett of Marshall met Lawrence Ray a few miles below that town about 4 o’clock this afternoon, and the two combatants started shooting without argument. Dr. Burnett was killed, according to reports of the affair received here, but only after he had inflicted fatal wounds on his enemy.
Reports from that section tonight are to the effect that an old family feud was the cause of the affray, although details as to the aggressor are lacking. Advices from Johnson City, Tennessee, state that after the shooting an interstate bus loaded with passengers started to stop to inquire, but was ordered by an armed man to keep going.
The confirmation of the reports of the shooting received early in the evening came from a deputy sheriff of Madison County at Marshall, who stated that the wounded man had been carried to Laurel, and that the sheriff had gone there to investigate.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Nov. 16, 1925. Headline said "Dr. I.E. Burnett" and article called him "Dr. O.R. Burnett."
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