Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — ROYAL FLUSH BRINGS DEATH [ARTICLE]

ROYAL FLUSH BRINGS DEATH

New Orleans Man Believed Blain by Man He Beat In Poker x Game.. New Orleans. —With his head and the upper part of his body filled with buckshot, Capt. William Collier was found dead in his hermit’s lodge. He was seated at a table and clutched in one hand was a “royal flush.’’ Opposite Hlu was a “full house.” He had beer playing poker and was evidently assassinated by the loser. The police are seeking his opponent in the game, believed to be a sugar planter.