Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — ARRICK MAY RECOVER FROM REVOLVER WOUND. [ARTICLE]

ARRICK MAY RECOVER FROM REVOLVER WOUND.

Monticello Paper Gives Another Version of the Shooting —Bay Still at Large—False Cine Followed. I . Moflticello Journal. Harry Arrick has been finely for the past twenty-four hours and his recovery from the effects of the revolver shot seems to be assured if no other complications set in. His physicians administered tetanus and streptococcic toxins yesterday to guard abainst lockjaw and blood poisoning. Harry Meridith has been with him al - most constantly since the shooting occurred, and Mrs. Jennie Snyder is with him also as a nurse. One or two of those who were present in the room when the trouble started have asked the Journal to state that Monroe Watkins Insisted that Day keep'quiet or leave the room, and that a bystander said, “I would not take that if I were you Harry,” and Arrick followed him down stairs. The story then goes that the man had no more than reached oujt of doors than Day pressed his gun against Arrick’s body and fired. Harry then grappled with Day and downed him, grasping the gun. In the struggle the gun was broken open at the breech and in so doing the cartridges were thrown ou. and Arrick’s hand was pinched in such a manner that he let loose of Day Steve Watkins states that be heard the melee and hurried out of the house in time to see them struggling and he tried to take a hand-but could not get hold of Day, who broke away and ran. / ■ ’ ■ . V ' , x - • Arrick made a deposition before Prosecuting Attorney Cowger and Attorney Palmer, with Miss Bunnell as stenographer, Sunday afternoon when it was feared he would pass away, In which he made a statement of the trouble and in that it is understood'that he claims to have Had no club or ether weapons in his hands. But little clue has been secured as to the wheabouts of Day. The officers are running dpwn all grapevine rumors that come in, with the hope that something might be learned. Last evening- they went out to a farm near Reynolds and searched the house of a near relatives of Day T s bn the strength of a report that a man said he had seen and talked with Dan and that he had a broken arm and bruised head. When they reached there it was found the man had simply heard that Mrs. Day should have said so mad so, as to her husband’s condition when, he came to the house after his coat and hat. Some people think Day is not far away and that it would be advisable for him to come in and give up, since Arrick is no worse than what he now appears. j i