Mobile County AlArchives News.....NEELY DIES OF WOUNDS; SLAYER IS RE-ARRESTED December 30, 1912
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Montgomery Advertiser December 30, 1912
Mobile Men Fought Over Property Boundary Line
Special to the Advertiser
MOBILE, ALA Dec 30, Thomas E. Neely, Jr., who was shot by Matthew Welsh on
Friday, December 20 during a row on St. Stephens Road, died Monday morning about
10 o'clock at the Providence Infirmary from his wound. Neely was wounded three
times, one of the bullets penetrating a lung, which caused his death.
Welsh, who surrendered after the shooting and was released the next day on
$5,000 bond was re-arrested Monday by Sheriff T. T. Palmer and locked up  in the
county jail on the charge of murder.
The killing of Neely was brought about, it is alleged, over the question of a
five foot boundary line that separated the property of the men involved. The two
men were at dagger's points and several difficulties and lawsuits had taken
place. On December 20 Welsh and Neely met in the road near the Bull's Head in
the Prichard neighborhood and a fight followed. Welsh used his gun shooting
Neely three times. Welsh claimed self-defense. so far as is known Neely made no
statement concerning the affair.

Additional Comments:
The death certificate lists his name as Thomas C. Neely, Jr. Most of the rest of
 the information on the death certificate is left blank.

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