Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1914 — Shooting Follows the Loss of One Cigarette [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Shooting Follows the Loss of One Cigarette

MILWAUKEE, WIS.—A quarrel over a cigarette resulted in two men being shot and a sixteen-year-old boy charged with the shooting early the other morning. Gust Ewert, eighteen years old, 592 Madison street, was shot in the

left breast, the bullet striking directly over the heart. Albert Schmidt, twenty years old, 560 Sixteenth avenue, received a let behind the right ear. Vincent Walsh, sixteen years old, who, according. to the police, did the shooting, was held over on a warrant charging him with assault. After the shooting, which occurred at Ninth and National avenues shortly after three o’clock, Ewert-was taken to the residence of Dr. Harry 8. Pig-

gins. An examination disclosed that the bullet, which was steel tipped, had lodged half an inch beneath the surface of the skin in the chest wall. Schmidt’s examination at Emergency hospital by lie. Scheele showed that the bullet had struck the mastoid bone of the skull just behind the left ear. It plowed through the hard shell and into the soft cellular recesses of the bone and thence ran into the ear, from where it was easily extracted. The story told by the three concerned was identical in that the shooting resulted from the theft of a cigarette from Walsh’s mouth. Ewert, Schmidt and several other young men passed Walsh on the street. One of the two victims snatched Walsh’s cigarette from his mouth. ' The lad drew a revolver from his pocket and fired three times, it is said. Two bullets found marks.