Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-16
A Shooting Scrape,

Medicine Lodge had little shooting
scrape last Sunday, about one o'clock
p. M, In the alley back of Davis i
Davis store. A man named Sam Lyons
shot at Jake Linneborne, with malice
afOrethought." From the best infor-
nation we can get it seems that Sam
calls himself The son-of- a-gun from
Texas" and aspires to be known as a
b-a-a-d man from Bitter crick-up near
the headwaters.
1t seems that Jake, who is the baker
for Turks bakery, had saved about $40,
intending to buy himself some clothes.
About three weeks ago Sam came In
from Texas, and took board at Turks.
He soon learned Jake's financial condi-
ton, and at divers and sundry times
''struck" Jake for a stake. Jake kept
the amounts in his mind, and waited a
chance to get even.
Saturday night there was a gambling
game OF some sort, and Jake and Sam
were there. Jake was q steady loser,
and after ''going broke" he borrowed
So from Sam, giving his Waterbury
watch as security. He blew in his So
on the game. Sunday morning he got
some money, and paid back the So, and
demanded his watch. Hot words passed
then and there, but the matter was set
tied somehow. A little later they met
again, and the quarrel was renewed.
Sam had made his arrangements to 60
to Kansas City, with cattle train, and
he left Jake, went down to the stock
pens, borrowed pistol from somebody,
and came back, He found Jake with
others, at the back of Davis store, and
pretending to he on loving terms with
him, put his arm around Jake, and the
two walked towards the alley, where
two of Sans friends where sitting In a
buggy.
Jake says that Sam told one of the
men in the buggy: Here's your fellow. -
The man answered "What do | want
with the blankety blank.'t Then Sam
says to Jake: You have got to die, you
BANKED blank" and pulled the pistol,
struck him twice on the head, and then
shot at him. Jake threw up his hand.
knocking the muzzle up. and the wea-
pom was discharged, the bullet going
over in the neighborhood of John Up
perman'S house. Sam then threw down
the pistol and started toward the bug.
gy. Jake started toward the pistol
when Sam jumped ahead of him, grasp
ed the pistol, and threw it in the weeds
just north of the INDEX Office He then
jumped into the buggy with his two
friends, and drove toward the stock
pens. Jake called for the city marshal,
who was not in town, but in a few min
utes fifty men had gathered to learn the
cause of the shooting. Sam drove down
nearly to the depot, and then conclud-
ed to come back and get his pistol. He
came IN North Main street, and Deputy
Sheriff Boyd arrested him within a
square of where the shooting occurred,
and in halt an hour after the shooting
Sam was gazing through the iron bars
of the Jail and wondering how the world
would get along without him.
Monday Sam was taken before Police
Judge Woodward, where he plead gull
ty to shooting in the city, and was fined
$40 and costs. On advice of his attor-
ney he refused to pay. He will be
brought before Judge Howe on Friday,
on charge of assault with intent to
kill.
Jake says Sam tried to get him to go
with him to the country, and he is now
satisfied that Sam wanted to get him
out by himself, and do him up. Jake
had offered to fight him q list and
skull'' battls.
After the shooting man galloped up
from the stock pens, and claimed the
pistol. but Deputy Sheriff Boyd refused
to give it up.
Sam claims that he was so drunk he
did not know what ne was doing, and
that Jake Was one Of his dearest friends.