Malheur County OR Archives News.....RENTER KILLS RANCH OWNER-QUARREL ENDS FATALLY FOR LITTLE VALLEY LAND OWNER July 1932
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Ontario Argus, Ontario, Oregon, July 7, 1932 July 1932
The Ontario Argus
Thursday July 7, 1932

RENTER KILLS RANCH OWNER
QUARREL ENDS FATALLY FOR LITTLE VALLEY LAND OWNER

Standing on the threshold of his ranch home, A. R. Hollingshed of Little 
Valley, east of Harper, shot and killed Morris McCarty from whom he leased the 
ranch.  The shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.  
Without waiting to see whether his victim was dead or not, Hollingshed went to 
the Central Oregon highway, flagged a westbound car and told his occupants he 
had shot a man.  The autoists drove to Harper from whence they notified Sheriff 
C. W. Glen, who with Coroner R. O. Payne and District Attorney E. M. Blodget 
went immediately to the scene where he found Hollingshed and the dead man.
“It is the strangest case I have had in more than twenty five years service as 
a coroner,” said Dr. Payne in telling of the investigation.  
“We found no one at the ranch save Hollingshed and the dead man whose body was 
laying by the hay rack in the yard.  Hollingshed told his story calmly.  He 
said the he and McCarty from whom he had a lease on the ranch for five years 
had quarreled, McCarty had called him vile names, and had ordered him off the 
ranch.  McCarty also got his shotgun which had been left on the place and 
started away.  Later when hollingshed left the ranch house he found McCarty 
hanging around.  He told him to leave, and the quarrel was resumed.  He then 
said McCarty reached into his overalls and he thought to draw a gun which 
McCarty usually carried.  He then stepped back into the house, got a .22 
special rifle and shot  either two or three times.  Two bullets hit McCarty, 
one on the right arm, the other on the left side.  This bullet came out of the 
mans back.  
“Hollingshed asked for a preliminary hearing and appeared confident that he 
would be exonerated.  He appears to feel that his act was justified and that he 
would be back irrigating his ranch in a day or two. 
“There was no one with the men when they quarreled.  Mrs. Hollingshed and their 
daughter were at a neighbors.  McCarty has no known relatives and was about 46 
years old.  Hollingshed was a mechanic at Vale before he went to the ranch last 
year.  The men had had a quarrel and came to blows, so it is said, some three 
weeks ago.”

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