Individual Details

Death

E. Furr Killed By Brother.
Row in Prominent Stanly Family Results in Awful Tragedy.
Albemarle Dispatch, June 18.
An awful tragedy occurred about three miles west of Big Lick, this county, this morning about 8 o'clock when W. F. Furr shot and killed his brother, Ephraim Furr. It seems that there had been some trouble between the brothers for some time over their father's estate. The stepmother was living on the land of W. M. Furr and proceedings had been taken by W. M. Furr to get possession of the land. It is said that Ephraim Furr had been some trouble between the mother. This morning when W. M. Furr and his son, L. M. Furr, went to the field near the house where the widow lived, they found that the widow had gone to Albemarle, but that Ephraim was there about the house. Ephraim Furr ordered W. M. Furr and his son off the premises, asserting, it is said, that unless they got off he would kill them. They did not go. Ephraim went to the house and secured his shotgun and returned and again ordered his brother away. The son remonstrated with his uncle, and tried to prevent, trouble, but Ephraim fired on his brother, a number of the shots taking effect in the limbs and other parts of his body. Ephraim then got down behind the road bank and took out the empty shell and undertook to reload, but when he rose W. M. Furr shot him with a pistol, almost instantly killing him. W. M. Furr then came immediately to Albemarle to give himself up to the officers and have his wounds dressed. P. J. Huneycutt, coroner, immediately summoned a jury and the jury has returned a verdict of justifiable homicide and W. M. Furr has been released, or will be as soon as the report is signed. W. M. Furr Is about 50 years old and his brother was perhaps two or three years his senior. Members of a large and prominent family, both men were well and favorably known throughout the county. Their brother, R. N. Furr, is county treasurer of Stanly county, and another brother, C. C. Furr, of Oakboro, is one of the leading merchants of the county. The tragedy has caused a severe shock to the people of the entire county, as these men had connection and friends throughout the county. The deceased has a family of eight or ten children, some of whom are grown.