Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — PUT JAMES BOYS TO SHAME. [ARTICLE]

PUT JAMES BOYS TO SHAME.

Shelby Men Go on Rampage With Direful Results to Families. Lowell, lad., July 24.—The rampage of the Kinney brothers at Shelby last week on Friday, when they threatened to annihilate their families and neighbors, still continues as the principal subject of excitement at the river town. While there has been no official interference, they are under more or less surveillance by the law-abiding element of the community, and another outbreak similar to the one of last week promises to result in arrests. One of the brothers known as “Doc” Kinney last week entertained his brother, Charley Kinney, and family, at bis Shelby home. The two brothers got into company with other visitors on the river, in the party being some women whose conduct was ground for objection by the wives of the Kinney brothers to their husbands. A scene of domestic discord ensued at the JCinney home which needed the interference of neighbors and which did not end until the women had been hurled bodily out of the windows and over the fence, and Ben and John Ahlgrim, two neighbors, had snatched a shotgun from “Doc” Kinney and threatened to use it on him if they did not behave. The two brothers were finally cowed, but later returned to their retreat for alcoholic liquors. The women, afraid for their lives and dreading the return, fled to the home of James Doty, the father of Mrs. “Doc” Kinney. But for the prompt action of the Ahlffrims bloody murder might have been committed. “Doc” Kinney got his shotgun from over the door and threatened to kill bis wife. When the Ablgrimß interferred he turned it on them, but they succeeded in snatching, it away from him. The quarrel did not end here, however, but was featured with another exciting episode when each of the brothers threw their better halves through the window and over the fence.