Lamar-Walker County AlArchives Obituaries.....ADAIR, Berry August 1889 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 December 9, 2010, 5:25 pm Vernon Courier, August 22, 1889 – pg 1 Vernon Courier, August 22, 1889 – pg 1 A BLOODY TRAGEDY – Harvey Speck Puts three balls Into Berry Adair The Carbon Hill Dispatch tells of a tragedy at that place; On last Tuesday evening about half past four o’clock HAVERY SPECK shot BERRY ADAIR three shots, two of them taking effect in his bowels and the other one in his left arm, from which Mr. ADAIR died about 8 o’clock the same evening. The killing of MR. ADAIR was the result of a quarrel between the two parties SPECK and ADAIR which originated from a small debt due from ADAIR to SPECK. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/obits/a/adair1869gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb