Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — FRANK BRUSNAHAN SHOT BY A WOMAN [ARTICLE]

FRANK BRUSNAHAN SHOT BY A WOMAN

Letter Giving Details of Death at Ricardo, N. Net, Received by Jasper County Relative. 4 ~4 : . The particulars of the death of Frank Brusnahan, son of Thomas Brusnahan, formerly of Union township, have been received by his uncle, S. A. Brusnahan, of Parr. It will be remembered that only a brief account of his death was received at the time it occurred. As his father now lives near Hamilton, N. Dak., some time elapsed before relatives here received any further information. This Saturday morning a letter was received by S. A. Brusnahan, which had been sent by a man living at Ricardo to Frank’s sister in Oklahoma and then forwarded here. The story is substantially as follows. Frank was engaged in the practice of law at Ricardo. A man and woman residing there were both employed by the railroad company and had been discharged. They thought that Frank had had something to do with their discharge and also blamed three other people, one of them a young woman. The wife of the discharged man procured a pistol and started out with the intention of killing all four of the people she blamed for their discharge. The girl was standing near the postoffice when the woman came up and began to upbraid her. Frank was standing near and he spoke to the girl and told her to step into the postoffice and not pay any attention to thb woman. He caught the girl by the arm and both went into the postoffice. The woman followed them in and with drawn revolver opened fire on them. Both were shot and Frank lived 22 hours. The girl was thought to stand a ehanee of recovery. The letter was from a brother of the girl who was shot and it spoke highly of Frank and said that he was shot for being a gentleman. There was a great amount of feeling engendered among the better people there and it was thought that other murders might result as the woman was feigning insanity. She had been bound over to the circuit court.