Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1913 — SHOOTS YOUTH TO HER AVENGE SISTER [ARTICLE]

SHOOTS YOUTH TO HER AVENGE SISTER

Hartford City School Teacher Probably Fatally Wounds Drug Clerk at Muncie. Declaring that he was responsible for the downfall of her younger sister, Miss Doris Underwood, aged 21, a teacher in the public schools at Hartford City, shot and probably fatally injured Otis Fisher, aged 20, a clerk employed in the Nichols drug' store at Muncie Monday evening. Miss Underwood went to Muncie after her school closed in the afternoon. Walking into the drug store, shortly before 7 o’clock, she began a conversation with Fisher relative to her sister’s condition. Fisher asked her to step to the rear of the store and they went behind the prescription case. Fred White, one of the prorpietors of the store, says he overheard the two quarreling and ordered sh« young woman to leave the store. “Just give us five minutes more,’’ pleaded the young woman. White stepped from behind the prescription case and had only gone a few feet when he heard the report of a revolver. Running back behind the case White found Fisher lying on the floor and the young woman was standing near with the revolver in her hand. White took the gun away from her and Edward Tuhey, son of Mayor Tuhey, who happened into the store at the tiffYe, took the young woman to the police station. There the young woman told a sad story to the police officers. She said that, since her mother’s death, several years ago, she had been acting the part of a mother to her younger sister, Ada, 18 years old, who is attending the Muncie Normal Institute. Miss Underwood said Fisher had been calling on her sister for some time, and, a few days ago, she said, she learned that he had ruined the girl’s life. “I asked him to straighten out the matter and he put me off,” declared the young woman, in concluding her story to the prosecutor.

Fisher was rushed to the city hospital, where it was found the bullet had entered his breast and lodged in the right shoulder. Fisher was able to' relate the incidents surrounding the shooting and admitted that he had been keeping company with the younger Underwood girl. At 9 o’clock his condition appeared to be growing weaker and physicians expressed doubt as to his recovery. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher. The young woman who did the shooting has been teaching school in Hartford City for a number of years and is prominent there. She was given a high recommendation by Trustee Ruraley.

It might he well at this time to issue a note of warning about whooping cough and measles. Some persons treat them as too trivial and do not try to keep their children, especially the very small ones, from contracting the diseases. Especially with the very young is whooping' cough dangerous and sometimes fatal, while it is not uncommon for measles to be accompanied with pneumonia during the winter Parents should not wantonly lead their children into exposure and no one who has the disease or who has left a house where the disease is should visit the home of persons who have not had it without first making certain that they can not transmit it, for in so doing one might unwittingly convey the messenger of death and have much cause for a stricken conscience.

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