THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, December 11, 1958

 

As a result of a shooting affray at the old airport between Bunnell and Flagler Beach last Friday night, two men are dead, two are patients in the hospital here with wounds, and two men are in jail.

The dead men, as reported by the sheriff's office, are George Kermit Jones, 31; James Howard Glisson, 28. Alexander Faircloth, 24, was seriously wounded from a gunshot in the abdomen, and Robert Durwood Drake was shot in the leg. Both men are recovering; it was stated with Drake having the lesser wound.

Two men, Sidney McCraney and Jack Johnson were arrested by the sheriff's force and placed in jail with a charge of suspicion of murder against them. .

The Shooting took place about 11:15 at the airfield when a group of men - - number not now known - - met near the trailer home of Jones on the airfield where the shooting occurred.

The shooting, it is reported, was the result of bad feelings between striking and non­striking truck drivers for Tropical Transport Co., which had been hauling cement from the plant of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., near Flagler Beach.

The circuit court convened here Monday morning for its scheduled fall term. After a grand jury was empanelled, court was recessed until next Friday morning when, it is assumed, the grand jury will inquire into the shooting.