Clay County AlArchives News.....One Lakey brother dead the other fatally injured.  December 28, 1912
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The Tuscaloosa News December 28, 1912
Dec. 27. One man dead, another fatally Injured, and another seriously injured, 
Is the result of a Christmas night turkey shoot held in the mountains of Clay 
County, fifteen miles southeast of Talladega. Cal Lackey is dead, his brother, 
Joe Lackey, fatally injured, and a man by the name of Bunn injured. All three 
men are white mountaineers residing in that section and from meager reports the 
men were drinking Bunn, it is alleged, did the shooting, while the two Lackey 
brothers took sides. Bunn was struck over the head in the melee and escaped into 
the mountains after having shot the two brothers. The scene of the shooting is 
the heart of the greatest mountain region of Alabama, and the residents of this 
particular section are of the wild west type. A free for all feud among the 
friends and allies of the two contingents would not be surprising, but officials 
state that they think they can avoid any such enactment.

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