Asheville, Dec. 27—Taylor McCracken, 38, farmer of the Crabtree section of Haywood County, is dead, and Howard Messer, 32, farmer of the same section, is in the county jail at Waynesville, as a result of a shooting affray Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Crabtree, following a hand-to-hand fight between he two men, according to reports reaching the city today. Messer was uninjured.
The fight is said to have occurred as a result of Messer’s dog being caught in a steel trap set out by one of McCracken’s sons on land belonging to Messer. The latter is said to have abused McCracken’s son, and the farmer took the matter up with Messer, resulting in a quarrel and the shooting. Both men belong to prominent Haywood County families.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Dec. 28, 1925
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