The Tomahawk., 1926-04-01
MO0NSHINE QUARREL.
ENDS IN MURDER.
John Armstrong Is Shot and Instantly Killed
Here Last Sunday Morning.

The usual peace and quiet of our
community was broken at an early
hour last Sunday morning bylss
tragedy enacted in the woods
about a half mile east of town
when John Armstrong, a yonug
man of Indian blood and a member
of the Mile Lac band of Chippe-
was. was shot and instantly killed
by Henry Knob, a white man, in
a quarrel over some moonshine at
the latter's home on Narcross lake,
just east of this village, at about
2 o'clock a. N. Sunday morning,
Particulars regarding the shoot,
ing are rather hard to obtain, as
there was but one witness, Michael
Brunette, and he was not close
enough to see the actual shooting.
From what can be learned, young
Armstrong, and Michael Bru.
nette, both about 20 years of age,
had been drinking and went to the
Knob home in quest of moonshine,
which the younger Knob, who is
also about 20 years of age, has
been dispensing during the winter.
While in the house they discovered
two bottles of liquor in the kitchen,
one quart jar and one pint bottle.
young Brunette says they attempt
ed to appropriate this, he taking
the pint hottle and putting it in
his pocket while Armstrong did
likewise with the quart jar. Knob
demanded his liquor back or the
money to pay for it, and Brunette
handed back the pint bottle he had
taken. Armstrong, however. re-
fused to give up the quart Jar of
liquor or to pay for it, telling
Knob to go to hell" They left
the house with Knob following
them demanding his liquor or his
pay, and when they we're a short
distance from the house Armstrong
showed fight, at which Knob
backed up a few PAGES and shot
him through the heart, killing him
Instantly. Young Knobs father,
seeing what his son had done,
came to town after the officers to
60 and get his son. He was taken
to Detroit and lodged in Jail. The
body of Armstrong was left laying
where he fell until the arrival of
Coroner Englund from Detroit, he
reached the scene about ten O'Clock
a. m and took the body to De-
troit where an inquest was held on
Monday. We have not learned
what verdict was returned by the
coronor's jury or the nature of the
charge field against Knob, but in
view of the circumstances sur.
rounding the case he will in all
probability be booked for murder
in the first degree. ~
The murdered man was the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. David Armstrong.
Mile Lac removals, whose resi-
dence is at Elbow Lake, but who
have been making their home at
the Sprofka sawmill for some time
past. His brother met similar
fate at the hands of Tom Skina.
way, an Indian policeman at Elbow
Lake several years ago. The
Knob family removed here from
North Dakota about two years
ago and bought the property
where they now live. The family
are quiet neighborly people and
the father stated that he had
repeatedly warned his son to stop
handling the liquor, which was
brought here from the southern
part of the state and left with
young Knob to sell, but the young
man was head.strong, carried q
80 caliber automatic pistol most
Of the time and would not listen to
reason. The mother has been an
invalid for several years. Young
Armstrong was we'll liked by all