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FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE OF.THE UNITED PRESS THE DAY BOON 5p0 S. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Chicago, Friday, May 31, 1912 One Centj FOUR YEARS MURDEROUS EYES HAVE WATCHED, FOR THIS "RETIRED" KENTUCKY FEUDIST He Wants to Quit the Feud Business, But Every Time He Goesij Out Doors the Bang! Bang! of Rifles Is Heard, and They Carry a Near Dead Man In. Crockettsvjlle, Br.eathitt May 31.

"Get Ed Callahan!" With eyes that could see in the darkness of mountain nights, through forests almost impenetrable, they "laid for" Ed Callahan, retired "bad man" and former high sheriff of Breathitt county, the storm center of Kentucky feudists. For four years they "waited" to kill him. John Deaton sprang on Callahan four years ago and carved him with.an ugly butcher knife. They thought he was done for but he recovered. Then more waiting and watching.

For more than a year Cal-Jahan kept strictly to his store rand home. He didn't see the murderous eyes on the mountain side across the way, but he knew they were there, waiting and watch- One day he got a bit careless and 'took a few steps outdoors. A storm of bullets wrizzed around him, and his folks picked him up for dead. Again the WQird racd, 'We1! through the mountains: got'im!" But Callahan got well, and the! waiting and watching started all over again. Another year he hidji in house and store.

Last week he( took a chance and peeped out ofy the window. Two rifles soundedf from high up on the mountain4 side and one steel bullet tore? through Callahan's left lung and another went through his leg. Hei fell while other bullets whistled through the window. He stands a fair chance to recover again. Ed Callahan is an unusual man.

He is 45, short and stocky, with a furtive air about him. Years-ago he was the most feared "free'-lance" feudist. After the assassination of "Uncle Bill" Strong, laid at Callahan's door, he joined the Hargis forces. The Callahans and Hargises had been bitter enemies, but they didn't mate each other as did the Cocktell faction, so they combined fo "clear out the Cockrells." Dr. B.

D.jCox, a CockrcII manL.