The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-02-09
Jun" THOMAS KILLED
Bleeds to Death After Being Shot
With a Shotgun by Dick Gee.


known young man Of this city, died
at the home of his brother-n-law. c.
a. Bolen, in the north part of town
Monday morning about 1880
o'clock as the result of a gunshot
wound which he received earlier IN
the night at the home of Dick Gee On
East Walnut street.
from the best information obtain
able It seems that about 1000 o CLOCK
zee and Inomas got into "a row
ABOUT Thomas. beng on Gees bed.
zee says tnat he wanted thomas to
sc, up SO tnat he could go to bed as
ne had TO get up early i'll the morning
aud go to hlCn hui alter load vi
coal. lie finally laid down beside
lllomas VINO SAID tuat he was goinS
~ cut ms throat. lie got up ana
.rlcd to get out the door, bul tnal
/ uomas got III front OF hlm and he
plci>eu up tne old shotgun and tred.
Lce was arrested at his home by
MARSHAL Draden and is now confined
III l.e county Jan. Monday after
noon Coroner berry empaneled ttt
lunoWlug coroner jury: ". II. Hen-
~, ]. >. OIoyd. J.. \. Lrutsanger, Nj.
:. llovey, /. vi. Bouitinknouse and
A. l.. Mountloy, VINO altcr hearing
several MltnesseS found verdict
,Aat the deceased came to his dcatn
rom a guusnot wound at the hands
vi DICK uee,
tred Orear testified at the inquest
mat early III the evening he and
4nOmas were walking down last
" aiuut street and as they passed tire
nee home Gee caued 10 tnem 10 come
II, lncy went INTO the house and
zee pro.uccd quart bottle OF corn
wuIsky. lHcy sat around the houae
tor SOME uluc taiG1ng and then OF&df
,elt, lnoIuas stayed,
Jesse Handy. WHO lives on Last
inc street not lar from tn Oee nome
.ttsuued tUat ABOUT 1000 clock ne
ueard 4 guusnOt and went out TO see
.,,nat Was tue matter Stayed out
about s minutes and then went back
and mad Just gone To bed wnen the
lJoctor turned down by his house
.4ud went uoWn to the Gee house.
sOt up and Went down. bob Gee was |
al the font yard and tod me that
yunl Thomas was III there shot. 1 |
asked VINO shot AIM and he sad the
'old man. ASKED what was the mat
ter and Bob SAID tney were both :
drunk / went INTO the house. Saw
a bread knlIe on the IIoor. Marshal /
Draucn picked 1t up. Gee SAID that
Ae and jun had some trouble and
mat Jum started towards hlm with a
.lnte TO cut INN. ASKED him to stop,
out he dldn do so and | tired. Gee
SAID that he WASH gong to be run
over by anyone
DR.. X. l.. Lrabtrce testified that he
was called about II:I5 by Bob Gee.
Ine young man and his father were !
waiting tor HIM at the feed yard a
lew blocks. west OF Gee 5. lhe 1ather
was under the influence of liquor. !
lnev went with him to the house.
1 here was no one there. Found I;
thomas lying at the loot OF the bed,
.ooked as though the had Climbed
over the footboard. He was suffer-
ing from gunshot wound about halt
way between the lett knee and hip.
lie wound was on the inside of the
icmur and ranged upward severlng
.emeroid artery and vein. Would say
tnat Thomas was lying on his back
when shot and the gun pointed down.
ward at about As derees. Would not
nave been possible to have received
,he wound while standing up. Zee
.aid that jun tried to cut him with a
knife and that he had shot to protect
There was an old gun,
SINGLE barreled ten gauge shot gun
standing in the room. Think that
Thomas had been shot at least an
lour. possibly longer before he go,
here.