Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — VICTIMS OF JEALOUSY. [ARTICLE]

VICTIMS OF JEALOUSY.

An Arkansas Man Shoots His Rival and a Girl and Mortally Wounds Himself. Batesville (Ark.) dispatch: Jake Schreiber, aged about twenty-one years, shot Miss Emma Fry and George Meissner recently as they sat talking on the balcony of the girl’s home, eight miles east of here. The girl was shot in the left breast and the wound Is almost certainly fatal, but Meissner will recover. As Schreiber rode out of the yard Albert Fry, a young brother of the girl, seized a revolver, and fired three shots at him, the last of which took effect in the back of his head and knocked him down, but he arose and resumed his flight. Schreiber was found in an old house in the neighborhood almost dead. In addition to the shot he had received from Fry he had shot himself with the last cartridge in his revolver, but failed to inflict fatal wounds. He had then taken a heavy stone and tried repeatedly to crush his head and each blow had rendered him unconscious for a time. He was brought here and lodged in jail, where he lies in a very precarious condition. Schreiber and Meissner were rivals for the hand of Miss Fry.