The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-03
RESULT OF TRIVIAL DISPUTE
BOCHE KILLED ANOTHER MAN
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO.
WITHIN A WEEK OF SAME DATE
farmer Was Trying to Force Boche
Into a Cab and Boche Fired Three
Lead Balls Into Jarmer-Were Leav-
lao the Resort Together.
IFror Wednesdays Daily.]


Within eight days of the anniver-
sary of a tragedy eighteen years ago
in which he killed George Ives with
an axe, Herman Boche, a well known
farmer living four miles southeast of
Norfolk, shot and killed Frank Jar
mer, a Norfolk saloonkeeper, at 3
o'clock Wednesday morning in front
of "247," an i'll famed resort east of
the river. farmer was shot three
times and died about an hour after
the shooting.
Boche and farmer were members
of the same fraternal order and had
been warm friends for years. They
had not been quarreling during the
night. The shooting occurred when
farmer tried to force Boche into
waiting cab. Both men are said to
have been under the influence of Ii
quor.
Boche Makes Escape.
After the shooting, Boche managed
to escape from the place and to con-
ceal himself from the first hurried
hunt of the officers.
Lee Vroman, hackman commonly
known along Norfolk avenue as Red"
was at the scene of the shooting with
his hack and stands as the principal
witness to the tragedy, though Edna
Ingham, mistress of "247,' claims to
have seen the shooting through a win
dow in the early light of the morning
Sheriff Clements at Madison was
notified of the shooting as soon as the
news reached the local authorities.
The sheriff with his deputy, Walter
Elley, arrived in Norfolk about 9 a.
m. and took charge of the efforts to
locate Boche.
Boche and farmer rode in hack
to the house beyond the river togeth
er. They arrived about l o'clock and
spent the night according to what tes-
timony is at hand, without quarreling.
In the morning hours, both under the
influence of liquor, they ushered forth
toward the hack that had been kept
in waiting. Boche was forced into
the hack Lunging out again he de-
fed farmer and Red" the hackman,
to put him in, talking in words not in
telligible to the living eye witness or
to the girls within the house.
Pushing farmer from him, Boche
opened fire on his companion with
revolver, sending three bullets into
the mans body. Red" the hackman,
this morning told story of wound
ed man on the ground begging for
mercy, which Boche could not heed in
the condition of his mind.
Hickman Was Frightened.
No one hindered the course of the
slayer the frightened hackman rush
ing into his box and driving his horses
hurriedly to town to bring himself to
safety and the news to town.
Shot in the road in front of the Ing
ham home, the wounded man was or
dered to place near the porch by
women of the place. Physicians sum-
moned hurriedly from the city, car
ried the dying man into the house and
sought to stop the flow of blood. Jar
mer's body had been pierced by three
lead balls. He was shot once in the
left shoulder and twice in the left
groin. He was conscious but told lit
tie of the tragedy save that he had
been shot by Boche. Death came
about o'clock, an hour after the
shooting.
The dead mans wife, still under the
first shock OF the dreadful news
brought to her was taken to the scene
of the tragedy She did not arrive
until after her husbands death
The body Of Frank farmer was car
ried to the undertaking rooms of SEES
sions & Bell to await the action of
the authorities.
May BE No Coroner's Inquest.
In view of the lack of conflicting
testimony County Attorney Jack Koen'
igstein after an inquiry into the de-
tails was of the opinion that coron-
er's inquest was unnecessary and that
it would represent an added expense
to the county.
Herman Boche, one of the princi-
pals of the shooting, is a Madison coun'
ty farmer living four miles southeast
OF Norfolk. A man of forty-eight
years, practically all of his life has
been spent in this vicinity He is a
married man with six children, the
youngest a lad of some ten or twelve
years, the Oldest a young man of age
Frank farmer, the victim, also mar
ried, has lived in Norfolk for number