Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-02
TIE LAKE VIEW ARRAY
"Dead.shot jack Who Did the
Shooting Captured Near Town
Of EARLY.
Taken to Sac City Jail to Prevent
Lynching by the lnfuriated
Populace.
Further Particulars of the Wreck
On the Northwestern-Crowds
Visit the Scene.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Lake View, Aug. 2.-Jack Nelson,
alias Dead Shot Jack the horse
trader who shot and probably fatally
wounded Marshal Teeple, as reported in
these dispatches yesterday. was cap
tured last evening about o'clock. He
was caught near EARLY and was taken
to the Sac City jail to prevent lynching.
The officers also arrested a pal Of Nell
covered wagons.
From further particulars of the quar-
relwhich led up to the shooting it seems
that Nelson had traded horses with
man by the name of Brown, agreeing to
pay difference of $40 on the trade, but
when asked for the money Nelson be-
gan abusing Brown and whipped out
revolver and, fiourishing it, said:
81 am 'Dead-Shot Jack, and amt
afraid of no -
Brown being man of powerful
build, rushed upon him and had nearly
wrested the gun from Nelson when
bystander, stepping in, tried to sepa-
rate them. Brown protested vigorously,
lexclaiming:
For Gods sake, don't separate US.
for he'll shoot met
Hardly had the words been uttered
when Nelson, breaking away, turned
the weapon on Brown, shooting three
times, one shot hitting Browns ankle.
another his arm and the third shot
lodged in door across the street. Mel
son mounted his saddled horse, near
by, with gun in hand. and cody loading
it declared, with an oath, that no oiti-
GERS could take him.
During the early part of the AFFAIR
someone went in quest of Officer Adam
Teeple, who, arriving on the scene
proceeded to place Nelson under arrest.
During an exchange of words between
them Robert Trainor slipped up behind
Nelson, on the side opposite Teeple. and
| grabbed the weapon, with the intent
| of wrestling 1t from Nelson's hand, but
Nelson, squirting his horse, made the
animal buck and jump, causing Trainor
Ito release his hold on the revolver.
| Instantly Nelson shot at Trainor, hit
ting him in the left temple, the bullet
passing under the skin and out at the
back of the head. Turning Immediately
/ to the right, and with the muzzle of the
revolver almost against Teeple's face,
he fired again, the ball entering below
4 the left eye and passing through the
nasal canal, over the palate and out in
front of the right ear.
4 With his hands to his head. Teeple
4 ran into livery stable, Nelson fol
flowed on horseback, and snapped his
revolver a second time. but the cart
4 ridge failed to explode. Wheeling
around and squirting his horse through
town. he fled, disappearing in the
country.
Soon determined men in every avail
4 able kind of conveyance and on horse
back were following him. in their Gag
Ierness to catch the fleeing wretch
4 Nelson's horse. not being of much ac-
! count, soon gave out. Leaving it in the
u road he fled into the cornfields, where
i he was surrounded by an angry mob OF
men. Some ventured into the corn af-
ter him. but the storm drove his pursu-
ers back to town for shelter.
Search was again resumed Tuesday
morning, and nearly every man in towr
had shotgun or q rifle, taking par,
in the hunt.
i Drs. w. j. Findley of Sac City an6
E. E. Speaker of Lake View attended
the wounded men. The wounds OF
Brown and Trainor are slight in nature
as compared with those dyluy pupuI
as compared to those of Teeple, al
though the latter's condition is not con
sidered as being necessarily fatal, I'M
less blood poisoning should set in. Mr.
Teeple is resting as we'll as could b,
expected, considering the nature of hi:
wounds.
Sheriff Beattie of Sac City PERSONAL,
offered reward of 500 for the captur,
of Nelson.