Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-26
ONE MAN MURDERED, ONE Ac.
ciDENTALLY SHOT AND TWO
RRAkEMEN LOSE THEIR LlvEa
IN PERFORMANCE OF DUTY. :.
MURDERED MAN WAS
RESIDENT OF OTTUMvVA
JAMES TODD, coLoRED, LET OUT
OF JAIL HERE ON HABEUs COR.
Pus PROCEEDING FEW HOURS
BEFORE DEATH.

four tragic deaths have OCCUR
red in the vicinity of Centerville
since Saturday night. James Todd
was killed in q quarrel with AL
bert Jackson at Mystic; George
Weston was accidentally shot and
killed, while in company with
Fritz McGregor at the Diamond
mines near Centerville; f. A.
Moore, brakeman on the Keokuk
Western, was caught between
Two engines while making a coup
ling for double header and died
at Centeryille shortly afterwards.
The body of j. Gathercole, another
brakeman on the X & W.. was
picked up lifeless on the track
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Centerville, Nov, 25.-(Special)-
Quarreling over difference of $1.60
In crap game at Mystic, late Satur.
day night, Albert Jackson, colored,
shot James Todd. also colored, In the
right shoulder, causing paralisis, from
the effects of which he died just be-
fore noon today in the city hospital
in this city
Todd who is well known among the
colored folks and police circles Of
both Centerville and Ottumwa, had
engaged jackson in q crap game. The
game was being pulled off at the
gambling house of Jim Lawton. AT
2 O'Clock Sunday morning when the
game broke up Jackson claimed that
he owed MIN ST. Todd declared that
30 cents was all that he owed Jack.
son. The argument developed into a
quarrel and finally became SO farm
that Jackson brought it to close with
a gun. Jackson gave himself up.
Todd is survived by his wife, living
in this city A divorced wife also
lives here.
Todd was released from the city
Jail in Ottumwa on Friday evening on
| writ of habeas corpus before Judge
M. A. Roberts. He had been arrest
ed on a vagrancy charge After his
release he Immediately went to Mystic
>Heston's Accidental Death.
| George Weston, colored, single
man who has lived in Centerville for
two months, and Fritz McGregor, also
colored were inspecting shot gun
which McGregor planned to try on q
hunting trip Sunday. The men were
near the Diamond mines and said to
nave been drinking. How the accident
occurred is not know, but the gun was
accidentally discharged and Weston
received charge of shot in the body,
dying at the hospital in Centerville
| cSiSAS AAooii touyd.
F. A. Moore's Death.
r. A. Moore, brakeman on the X.
& W., branch of the Burlington. was
caught between two engines at Van
Vert west of here while coupling two
engines Of a double header. He was
brought to the hospital here, but only
fingered a few hours. He was sim
/ gle man. His parents live at Purdin,
Mo-, and his body will be taken there
| for interment.
The GathercoIe Accident.
/ John Gathercole's death was attend
/ ed with mysterious circumstances. He
was on his train as brakeman and was
seen going from the caboose to the
head end Of the train shortly after the
train left Kahoka, Mo. He was missed
and searchers went back over the
track. His body was found, 1ifeless
and horribly mangled between the
tracks. He was 35 years of age and
leaves a wife and three children at
Centerville He formerly lived at
Abba and the remains will be taken
there for interment.