Blood Keeps Flowing In Mitchell-Truitt Feud

(Last week the Mitchells saved the Truitts from certain death. Finding the starving strangers at the foot of Comanche Peak, white-haired patriarch Cooney took care of them until they could fend for themselves.)

(But the newcomers turned on their benefactors, and a bitter land dispute culminated in a confrontation that took the lives of two Truitts. A Hood County jury convicted Cooney Mitchell of murder on the testimony of Reverend Jim Truitt and sentenced him to hang. With his last words, the old man called upon fugitive son Bill to avenge his death.)

For weeks after the execution of Cooney Mitchell, the fear of retribution haunted the Truitts, who lay awake at night waiting for the dreaded return of the dead man