The Baxter Bulletin
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Friday, January 4, 1924, front page
KILLED AT BASKETBALL GAME
Searcy County Farmer is Slain and Several Persons Injured.
D. V. Shannon, age 51, a veteran Searcy County teacher on the 26th of December was ordered held under bonds of $2,000 on a charge of murder following the death on the 25th of Newton Massey, 40, a well known farmer. Massey was instantly killed when struck on the neck with a stone during a free-for-all fight at a basketball game at the mouth of Cellar creek, 12 miles north of Marshall.
Cecil Shannon, son of D. V. Shannon and a member of the Bear Hollow team, got into an argument with Goldman Treat of the Landis five. The two youths started a fist fight and spectators joined in. Stones, club, sticks, fists and knives were used as weapons.
(the remainder of this article is unclear and not transcribed).
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Friday, January 4, 1924, front page
KILLED AT BASKETBALL GAME
Searcy County Farmer is Slain and Several Persons Injured.
D. V. Shannon, age 51, a veteran Searcy County teacher on the 26th of December was ordered held under bonds of $2,000 on a charge of murder following the death on the 25th of Newton Massey, 40, a well known farmer. Massey was instantly killed when struck on the neck with a stone during a free-for-all fight at a basketball game at the mouth of Cellar creek, 12 miles north of Marshall.
Cecil Shannon, son of D. V. Shannon and a member of the Bear Hollow team, got into an argument with Goldman Treat of the Landis five. The two youths started a fist fight and spectators joined in. Stones, club, sticks, fists and knives were used as weapons.
(the remainder of this article is unclear and not transcribed).
The Baxter Bulletin
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Friday, January 4, 1924, front page
KILLED AT BASKETBALL GAME
Searcy County Farmer is Slain and Several Persons Injured.
D. V. Shannon, age 51, a veteran Searcy County teacher on the 26th of December was ordered held under bonds of $2,000 on a charge of murder following the death on the 25th of Newton Massey, 40, a well known farmer. Massey was instantly killed when struck on the neck with a stone during a free-for-all fight at a basketball game at the mouth of Cellar creek, 12 miles north of Marshall.
Cecil Shannon, son of D. V. Shannon and a member of the Bear Hollow team, got into an argument with Goldman Treat of the Landis five. The two youths started a fist fight and spectators joined in. Stones, club, sticks, fists and knives were used as weapons.
(the remainder of this article is unclear and not transcribed).
Mountain Home, Arkansas
Friday, January 4, 1924, front page
KILLED AT BASKETBALL GAME
Searcy County Farmer is Slain and Several Persons Injured.
D. V. Shannon, age 51, a veteran Searcy County teacher on the 26th of December was ordered held under bonds of $2,000 on a charge of murder following the death on the 25th of Newton Massey, 40, a well known farmer. Massey was instantly killed when struck on the neck with a stone during a free-for-all fight at a basketball game at the mouth of Cellar creek, 12 miles north of Marshall.
Cecil Shannon, son of D. V. Shannon and a member of the Bear Hollow team, got into an argument with Goldman Treat of the Landis five. The two youths started a fist fight and spectators joined in. Stones, club, sticks, fists and knives were used as weapons.
(the remainder of this article is unclear and not transcribed).
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