A Neighborhood Under Siege: The Fatal Feud of Fourth Street

At 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the friends and relatives of the lamented Fred Hall gathered at Fourth Street near Madison to pay their tributes. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Clark Davis of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The funeral party was borne by Charles L. Downey, J. C. Young, Isaac Benfield, Edward J. Chilberg, S. P. McNut, and Erick Iwecki—young men who had known him from boyhood. This somber event follows a month of terror in the neighborhood. Thomas Haddington and Patrick Halloran had been locked in a bitter feud over stone-throwing that had plagued Haddington’s home for weeks. Residents described Haddington’s windows being smashed by rocks night after night, forcing the family to stay up in fear. The tension culminated in a shooting, with Haddington and his associates eventually coming to blows with Halloran, who was found dead in his cabin with a gunshot wound to the neck.