Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1912 — MAN SHOT FOLLOWING ROW AT MONTICELLO [ARTICLE]

MAN SHOT FOLLOWING ROW AT MONTICELLO

Oran Day Said to Have Mortally Woended Harry Arrick —Resolt of Dispnted Card Game. THE SHOOTER MADE HIS ESCAPE L « • Officers Unable to Find Murderer—tlie Same Day Who Went Out of > Back Window When Officers Were After Him for Chicken Stealing. Harry Arrick, a painter at Monticello, lies at the point of death in -that city-JRlth a bullet hole below his heart. Oran Day, who fired the shoL, has so far eluded the officers, and will probably be hard to find. The shooting occurred in Montxeelto in the rear of a soft drink estab-. lishment conducted by Monroe Watkins. It is said that no one saw the shooting. Arrick is alleged to have conducted a poker joint over the Watkins place, and to have had a row with Day. The latter is said to have dared him to eome down stairs and to have used several oaths and threatened to shoot. Other participants of the game and those in the room are said to have beat a hasty retreat. Among those in the poker room, sd"it is alleged, was James Haynes, the Me Coysburg man who has been -o much in the limelight since his adventures with the game warden a year or so ago.

No one has beer f umd who seems to know just how the men got together. The soft drink establishment was filled with men, it is said,, when a bullet crashed through the back door of the place, here was a hasty exodus but not in the direction of the firing. All took the front door for their escape. Another shot was fired and then all was silent. A young man < named Watkins, a son of the propretor of the place is said to have gone dfco the scene of the firing and to have found Arrick on. the ground, and to have seen Day running away. It is thought that Arrick tried to make Day drop his pistol and probably struck him with the club, breaking the revolver. A bullet hole just below the heart showed where he ha 1 been hit' He was carried into the Watkins place , and a physician called. The bullet was some place in the body, probably in the abdomen, and could not be extracted. It was agreed Arrick could not survive, This, Monday afternoon, at about 2:30 o’clock, Arrick was still alive, but was sinking rapidly and there seemed no chance for recovery, Arrick was in Rensselaer some two years ago with Jim Deggerlng, the balloon man, and later worked here as a painter for Charlej Osborne. He is said to have been a very clever man and well thought of in his home town. Day had lived In MonticeUo for a couple of months. He worked on tbe stone road gang there. He formerly lived near Lee and is a brother of Pill Day, who, with Joe Hubbard, was arrested and brought to jail here on a charge of chicken stealing. His brother and Hubbard escaped conviction after having their eases venueti for trial to Kentland. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Gran Day at that time and deputy Gas Grant and the Monon marshal went to make tbe arrest. When *he officers were at the front door of the house be was in near Lee, he went out through a back window and Mk escape, lie has made himself scarce since that..time. Day lost his hat In the alley where the shooting took place. No trace whatever of him was found. He is married and has a wife and two children. He did not go to his home. Sheriff Price, of White county, thought ha might to this cotstfcr and found a hiding ptgee among nw of his odd friends, Hajng&s or Hubbard or other* of that gagg. Sheriff Price UK Grant accompanied him to Bales' ' ; A'' _ ' £

house but soon put in an appearance. He talked freeiy to the officers and claimed that he knew nothing of Day’s whereabouts. The officers went to several other houses but their hunt was fruitless. Hanes and Day are brothers-in-law. Day has a bad record, it is said, and was arrested In Lafayette once. An effort was made to get bloodhounds to pursue him, but owing to rain early Sunday morning their.,owner would not put them on the trail. It was expected that Watkins’ joint at Monticello will have a thorough Investigation. — Haynes is said to be a frequent visitor in Rensselaer and to.have been here Saturday morning and to have gone to Monticello in Company with a man named Beckman, who lives near McCoysborg.