The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-10-01
SHOT TO DEATH FROM AMBUSH,
Young GAINESVILLE Man Dies With -
Rifle Bullet in Side-Myron
Anderson is Held.

wounded when about to enter the
store building owned by his father,
VIM. Earring, and himself.
The assassin used 20 caliber tar
get rife, and was concealed in the
darkness diagonally across the street
from the Earring store. The ball took
effect in the left side in the region of
the left rib and the post norton re-
vealed it in the left lobe of the liver
The wounded man fingered until |
midnight of the following day when
death relieved him of his sufferings,
internal hemorrhage being the imme-
date cause of death.
The writer of this article was per-1
haps the first one to give assistance
to the wounded man after he had
fallen.
He. with his wife, was returning to
his home from town, and on turning
the corner of the business block IN
which is located the Earring store, a
voice was heard crying Help help
1t was repeated several times, and
on arrival at a point whore one could
see into the Earring store room, Lewis
Earring was on the floor, reclining on
one elbow and uttering the cries for
holp. On discovering who it was
passing he again repeated the cry for
help and added, I'm shot"
We entered the room which ap-
parently had no occupants but the
wounded man, we raised him to
sitting position and asked him who
had shot him and he answered that
he did not know. About this time
v. B. Kinder came apparently from
an inner room and VIM. Earring,
father of the wounded man also en-
tered, and who assisted us to raise
him to his feet. "Take me out I've
got to have air." he said, and we
took him out on the walk where he
collapsed. AS his father and the
writer were bending over him and
trying to locate the wound, rifle
across the street cracked and the
bullet crashed into the wall of the
building above our heads. AS the
rifle cracked the wounded man said,
"take me back in, quick, they are
shooting again" We raised him to
his feet and partially supporting him,
took him back into the room, and
just as the threshold was crossed the
rifle cracked again, the bullet this
time smashing into scale office
across the street At this time the
room was crowded by large num-
Der of excited men, and seeing that
we could be of no further assistance,
we with our wife went to our home.
Three shots were fired as we were
walking short block and half,
but no one was hit, though some
parties reported narrow escapes. i
Drs. Duff and Nally were called
and fastened to the store room and
had the wounded man. removed to
his home where the wound was ex-
anlined and an attempt to find and
remove the bullet failed. Dr. Powell,
of Princeton, was also called but was
unable to do more than the other two
physicians. AS stated above the
wounded man fingered until the fol-
lowing night when he died about
midnight.
v. B. Kinder who was in the Ear
ing store ct the time of the shooting
made the following statement, in eff
feet, to a representative of The News.
About $3.50 o'clock on the night of
the shooting, he and Lewis Earring
were in the Earring store. NO one
else was present. He, (Kinder) was
near the front of the room standing
beside the show case writing letter.
He heard a rifle crack, heard the
crackle of glass, and noted that the
electric light diagonally across the
street from the store had been shot
out, but attached no particular sig
nificance to the incident. Immedi-
ately previous to this, Earring entered
the adjoining building owned by
Jesse Sherman to deliver a telephone
message to q party. Having deliv-
cred the message. young Earring left
the Sherman building and started to
enter the door of his building. Just
as he pulled open the screen door a
rifle cracked and Earring screamed,
"I'm shot" Kinder did not think
it could be possible and suggested
they go into the back room OF the
building which they did but young
Earring turned around Immediately
and started back to the front of the
room and fell Just inside the door
where the writer found him minute
or two later.
were fired, Marshal Eaton arrested
one MyrOn Anderson, who it is al
legged was seen to shoot out the light,
and was seen carrying rifle that
night, according to story. He was
charged with felonious assault, at
tempt to kill, and lodged in the
GAINESVILLE Jail TO await result of Mr..
Earrings injuries. On Saturday morn
ing after Earrings death, the charge
was changed to murder in the first
degree and he was taken to Bethany
and lodged in Jail until his prelim-
mary examination, which will be held
in Justice ]. e. Bain's court in this
city next Tuesday.
Anderson strongly denied the
charge that he had fired the shot
which killed Earring, and said that he
couldn't have done it as he and Lewis
were always good friends. Quite a
number of witnesses have been sum-
moned by both sides and the hearing