The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-11
NICK MARSH TELLS
STORY OF TRAGEDY
Of tho Shooting Which o.
Cured Last Week In
Louisiana.
HE WAS THREATENED
Marsh Had Filed Criminal Charges
AGAINST schee, He Says In
Letter to Friends
Here.

r. o. Marsh, former Warsaw resi-
don't who is under arrest in Louisi-
ana charged with the murder of his
business partner. j. G. Schee, has
written to friends in Keokuk Of the
tragedy. He claims that he shot
schee in self-defense, and that Schee
had threatened him and that he drew
a gun on him the day of the shooting.
ut was simply case Of my kill
ing him or his killing me- Mr..
Marsh has written. II dismissed Mr..
Schee from my company on April 4,
last. on account of gross incompet-
ency. dishonesty and habitual intern
perance, the above being the civil
charges I was forced to file against
him in court. Lately it had been
necessary for me to file criminal
charges of arson and embezzlement
against him, ALSO"
Account Of Killing.
Enclosed in the letter was clip
ping from the New Orleans Daily
States telling Of the tragedy. 1t is
reprinted here:
OPELOUSAS, La, June CD. e..
Schee, o6, former manager of the
Port Barre Timber and Tie company,
was shot and killed by r. o. Marsh,
"a, president of the company. in the
dining room of the Port Barre hotel,
this parish, at o'clock Wednesday
morning, Marsh firing five shots at
his victim.
Walking out of the hotel, Mr..
Marsh met a deputy sheriff and sur
rendered, saying:
Il have killed Schee because he
had threatened my life on several
occasions and because he started to
draw his gun when he saw me open
the dining room door. It was self
defense"
Schee had a wife from whom he
was separated, and one daughter.
Mr.. Marsh has wife and three chill
dren. They had moved to st. Ian
dry parish only six months ago from
New York. Mr.. Marsh was originally
from Illinois. He was the largest
stakeholder in the Port Barre Tim
Der and Tie company and had been
in active charge of the plant for the
past six months.
Superintendent Schee had been
discharged from the service Of the
company several weeks ago. 1t Is
claimed by Mr.. Marsh and his friends
that Schee had remained at Port
Barre and around the plant, threat
enlng the life Of the president.
he was under several charges. He
had been charged with misappropri-
ating funds of the company, the sum
of $500 being named. On Tuesday,
affidavits had been made against
him, alleging an attempt to burn
down the skidder. Tuesday night a
trestle on the logging road had been
burned. No charge had been pre-
TERED against Schee, in connection
with this act. a
Early Wednesday morning, Presi-
dent Marsh went down to the hotel
looking for his present manager,
George .oodloe.
Il looked into the dining room to
see If Mr.. Goodloe was there" said
MI Marsh, when l saw Schee sit
tlng on the side. AS he saw me he
reached for his hip pocket to get his
gun. knew what that meant and
hred in self defense. I did not go
there looking for Schee but for
Goodloe."
Marsh came to Opelousas where he
consulted Attorney John w. Lewis,
while the sheriff and coroner con-
quoted the official investigation at
Fort Barre, which is an Industrial
town on the Frisco Schee came to
Fort Barre from Pennington, Iowa,
eighteen months ago. His body will