TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Smith Perdue kills C. M. Hill
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Mud Fork article. May 15, DON'T KNOW THE YEAR.

MUD FORK MAN SLAYS KINSMAN FROM AMBUSH

Smith Perdue Fatally Shoots C. M. Hill; Ends Own Life

      The second murder and suicide in this area within the past week was
enacted yesterday morning when C. M. Hill, 56 of Mud Fork, was shot and
killed from ambush about four miles from Falls Mills dam by his
brother-in-law, Granville Smith Perdue, 60, also of that community, who
then took his own life behind the chickenhouse of his farm.
      The first such tragedy occurred in Giles county Wednesday morning,
when Allen Wills shot and killed his wife and then himself.
      The tragedy early yesterday morning was obviously the result of a
family controversy, which had existed for some time, investigating officers
said, following an inquest.  Investigating officers were Virginia State
Trooper A. E. Andes, Chief of Police J. H. Poole, and Police Judge T. A.
Osborne, of Bluefield, Va.

Out On Bond
      Perdue was out on bond at the time of the crime, awaiting trial on
the charge of the ambush wounding of Hill and W. T. Bailey on February 21 of
this year.  The case was to have come up in the circuit court at Tazewell,
Va., within the next few days.
      Perdue had been shot four times with a shotgun.  Andes said he
apparently was fired upon as he drove his car along the road, stopped
the machine and tried to flee when further blasts from the gun felled him. 
In reconstructing the crime, officers said Perdue apparently was hiding a
large oak tree above the road, when Perdue came by on his way to work in the
Boissevain, Va., mine.  Four empty shells from a pump gun were found at the
spot.  The shooting is estimated to have occurred about 6 o'clock.

Body Found
      Hill's body was discovered across the road and just over a fence
in a gulley when a search was begun for him after he failed to report for
work and it was learned that he had left home for his job.  Surprised by his
assailant, Hill was believed to have tried to make his escape over the fence
into a nearby field.  He was shot four times-in the face, right arm and in
the right side as he turned to try to get over the fence.
      Perdue, his wife told officers, complained Friday night of a toothache
and had slept in a room by himself, "so as not to disturb her," she related.
He got up about 3 o'clock, she continued, and left the house.
      Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning he returned to his home and
asked his wife if she had breakfast ready.  She said that she would have in
a few minutes.  Perdue then said he was going up the hill for a few minutes
and would be back. Immediately after he left the house his wife
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