Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — Mooresville Town Marshal. Killed a Bad Man Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Mooresville Town Marshal. Killed a Bad Man Sunday.

Henry Beeler, town marshal at Mooresville, killed Robert Mc : Naught, a barber, Sunday morning. McNaught had served a term in the penitentiary, had tjeen a had man for years, had conducted a “blind tiger” joins at Mooresville and was in every way a, thorn in the sides of those people who believed in law enforcement. , Nunday McNaught and Ben Elkins, who seems to be of about the same type, tried to catch a man by the name of Lincoln Creek, whom they accused of having “peached” on them. They ran him for some distance and some one turned in an order for the marshal. He came down town and. went to the office of a justice to get warrants for the arrest of McNaught and Elkins. .The justice was not in his office and as he came down on the street Eljcins jumped on his hack and McNaught came from the front and the marshal was dreadfully beaten up. He managed to draw his ro volver and fired five times at McNaught. Four bullets entered his body and he died almost instantly. The marshal then surrendered to the sheriff and was taken to Martinsville, the county seat, where he was placed under guard in a sanitarium. He was rendered almost unconscious by the heating he had received. It is probable that he will he cleared of the second degree murder charge, on defense grounds. Mooresville had been infested with “blind tigers” and “bootleggers” and Beeler had been a splendid officer and has the support of the law-abiding people of the town.