Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-04
FATHER AND SON ARE
RIDDLED WITH SHOT
Double Murder Results From Fsud
Between Two Iowa
Families.
OLIVER BRlcKER coaFfssEs DEED
Says He killed o. D. Guild and Clnrence
Guild After They Had Fired
Upon and Wounded
Him.

Fort Dodge, Ia, July &c. A. Guild
and son, Clarence Guild, came to their
end through wounds inflicted by a shot
gun in the hands of Oliver Bricker. This
is the finding Of the coroner's jury im-
panneled on the double murder In Yell
township Friday. The jury was COM
posed of Is. ]. Price and w. +. Holm
of Fort Dodge and c. j. Swanstrom of
Dayton and was i.npanneled by acting
Coroner Youker.
DR.. a. "A. Pratt of Dayton, examined
the bodies and stated that both victims
had been shot through their heads and
that death was instantaneous. Guild
was struck by 50 bullets and his chest
was fairly riddled
George and Oliver Bricker were
brought to Fort Dodge last night and
confined in the city Jail and are trying
to raise bonds, $4,000 for Oliver and
$4,000 for George. Oliver Bricier talks
freely and with absolute unconcern
about the shooting. The crime does
not worry him in the least. Mrs. Guild
Was better at last reports but is sim
Frustrated.
Account of tho killing.
Dayton, Ia, July 2-Clay county.
Kentucky, never presented more bloody
scenes of bitter neighborhood feud
than those which We're witnessed near
here yesterday, and which resulted In
lHc QGulu Ol Two men.
G.. ID. Guild and his 19-year-old son,
Clarence, lie dead, their bodies covered
With blood from the woundes of Shot
guns, the missiles OF which riddled and
scanned their persons until the sight was
frightful to behold.
The man who says he did the fatal
shooting is Oliver Brlcker, one member
of Il family living near the Guild house,
hold and the carnival of human slaugh-
fol ci
tween him and the Guilds has Mortified
this community more than any occur
renee Which has happened within the
memory of Its inhabitants.
The shooting occurred at 1 o'clock in
the afternoon, but just what We're the
Immediate circumstances which led up
to the fracas are not yet fully known.
The main difficulty lies in the fact that
stories of the encounter differ, and the
construction to be put upon each
causes such a wide Variance on the pos
stble facts that 1t IS practically impos-
sible to detail the actual occurrences. I
Blicker gives his version Of the affair
with considerable Particularly. He
says that he met Guild and his son
about o'clock. He declared that
Guild pulled revolver and Immediate
~ began firing at him. Bricker being
ing hit three times. on the lip, the
forehead and the forearm.
Hr!cker's Version. q
| Bricker claims that the last shot
which struck him was fired by Guilds
son, Bricker having knocked Guild s re-
volver from his hand. He then says
that his brother George arrived on the
scene With a shotgun and that he,
! Bricker, fired one barrel at the boy.
who held revolver. The boy fell and
as he did so his father sprank to pick
up the weapon. Bricker thereupon
turned his shotgun upon the father,
! pulled the trigger and the elder Guild
/ fell to the ground, dead.
| This is Bricker's story of how the at
I fair occurred. A different tale Is told
| by Charles Guild, q 16-year-old son of
the dead man, who claims he was an
/ eyewitness to the shooting ARRAY.
which resulted so disastrously to his
| father and brother.
Charles says that Oliver Bricker
opened fire first with q revolver and
| that George Bricker did the fatal Shoot
| ing With a shotgun.
Both the Bliclers have been arrested,
Oliver Bricker being placed under
bonds of $4,000 and his brother George
I, under $4,000 bail.
Brlcker openly admits having done
the shooting and talks about it freely.
1T was bad" he said, but when a
mans got to, he has to-
Eoth bodies fell in line only few
hundred yards from Gould's home.
Mrs. Gould heard the shooting and
rushed to the spot only to come upon
| the bead bodies of her son and hus-
band She carefully took off an apron
which she wore and wrapped it about
the dead husbands head. She was
later taken home in dazed condition,
and still lies in serious condition
from the nervous shock.
Guild was well to do farmer, 60
IL, 1r.,,1 ny, RI
eight children, the Oldest Ii, the youngr
est baby in its mothers arms.
1 Both bodies showed wounds in the
chest The charges were heavy loads
of No. shot, and We're fired from a
12-gauge double barreled shotgun. The
revolver used by Guild was a 3S-calibeT
Smith & Wcsson. Four of the five
chambers are empty.
1t is believed that the shooting was
caused by a quarrel in the morning,
when George Bricker and Guild had
words over a broken fence, which let
Brickel's cattle into Guilds corn, and
Bricker claims Guild struck him with
a hammer
Had Blood Between Families.
Bad blood has existed between the
families for months, brought on origin
ally by disagreement over land
Guild previously claimed that BriclSel
had cut his fences. and last fall Guild
was shot from ambush while driving
along a heavily wooded road. Hi.
heavy fur coat and the wagon boz
We're riddled with bullets. Guild ac-
cused Oliver Bricller of the shooting
and caused his arrest. but the gran(
jury failed to return an indictment a.
Its last session.
!, Both families live . few miles from
Dayton, Ia, located twenty mile.
southeast of Fort Dodge, and are wei
known.
Guild has expressed to several per
sons that he would meet a violen
death, but he said that no one Shout;
take him from his land, except in
pine box.