THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, December 19, 1946

 

Funeral services for H. A. Buckles and his eldest son, Stanley were held at funeral parlors of Haigh and Brooks in Daytona Beach: Monday afternoon.

Burial was made the same day at the Holly Hill cemetery with Haigh and Brooks in charge.

Mr. Buckles was 42 years of age and his son, Stanley, 22. Both were born and reared in Flagler County, but had made their home in Holly Hill for the past several years.

Mr. Buckles is survived by his widow and seven children, Lavada, Lilly, Mark, Brady, Harold, Homer and Lorraine, all of Holly Hill.

Also surviving are seven brothers.

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THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, December 19, 1946

Tragedy stalked the meeting last Thursday night of five men, all well known in Flagler County. Three are dead and two others were seriously wounded in a gun battle about a mile west of Dupont on the road running from that community west toward the old Haw Creek Road.

Those involved in the shooting were M. C. Strickland and his nephew, Emmett Strickland of Favoretta, and Harold and Stanley Buckles (father and son) of Holly Hill and their companion C. Elton Mullins of Daytona Beach.

Stanley Buckles was dead upon the arrival of Flagler County officers; Harold Buckles died shortly after admitted to a Daytona Beach hospital; M. C. Strickland died in Glendale hospital in Palatka Sunday afternoon.

Emmett Strickland, in the Palatka hospital is given a good chance to live as is Mullins who is in a Daytona Beach hospital, but the condition of the men is such that officers have not yet questioned the men and no inquest has been held, pending the outcome of their wounds.

According to information obtained by Sheriff Henry Wells and. Deputy Sheriff M. R. Teters who investigated the shooting, it is not yet known what transpired when the men met except that an automobile belonging to Buckles, another automobile and a truck belonging to Strickland were parked in the road, while the shooting took place only a few feet off the road.

Pistols and a rifle were used in the shooting, the rifle lay near the Buckles when found and two pistols were in the car belonging to M. C. Strickland.

Deputy Sheriff M. R. Teters said today that he was stopped on the highway south of Bunnell by Dean Holland, an employee of Strickland, and told Teters that Strickland wanted Sheriff Wells to come to see him, Teters told Holland he would go and drove leisurely on to Dupont and upon arriving at a filling station there drove in and was informed a man was inside who had been shot. He went in and found Mullins lying on a cot and when asked who shot him said he did not know. Teters came back to Bunnell to call an ambulance for Mullins and Buckles, and learned that both Stricklands had already been driven to Bunnell by M. C. Strickland, Jr., 13-year-old, who could give no coherent account of what happened. An ambulance was called from Palatka for the Stricklands.

Sheriff Wells, Deputy Sheriff Teters and State Highway Patrolman Brooks went to the scene of the shooting, finding a rifle, the abandoned cars and truck which they ordered moved after making their investigation.