Clay County AlArchives News.....Owens, Dan Ambushed at Hollins  April 23, 1933
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Sylacauga Advance. April 23, 1933
Dan Owens, of Hollins, is in Drummond Frasier hospital suffering with a badly 
torn leg and thigh due to being shot from ambush at his home in Hollins Tuesday 
evening at eight o'clock. Hospital attaches told The Advance that Owens was 
forced to wear a brace on his right leg due to the extent of his injuries. His 
wounds are very painful. No definite data could be gained as to the shooting by 
representatives of this paper. Owens told a friend that Mason Pate, a brother-
in-law of his, was the one who fired upon him.
Members of the Pate family denied this, however, explaining that Mason and Owens 
had had a few cross words, and this led the latter to believe Pate was the 
assailant. Owens, who had recently moved to Hollins from Sylacauga was at his 
pig pens when the unseen attacker shouted, "Hands up". The assailant then opened 
fire. Later a Howard-Parker ambulance was called to bring the victim to a local 
hospital.

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