Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — LOUIS JAMISON SHOT IN THE LEG [ARTICLE]

LOUIS JAMISON SHOT IN THE LEG

Man Who Resisted Arrest Saturday Night Said •to Hare Bullet in Limb—Denies Aid. It is reliably reported that Louis Jamison, the man who escaped from Constable J. W. Childers last Saturday night and who was fired at by the officer, lies at his home in the old Sharon neighborhood 7 miles southeast of town, with a bullet in one leg and that a big pistol lies at his side and that he defies anyone to take him. Jamison is a Russian, his wife is a mute, and apparently he is subject to mental disturbance when angered. Last spring he refused to remove from one of the Amsler farms and threatened to shoot any person who tried to force him out. He moved to the Sharon neighborhood and larft week a neighbor informed Prosecutor Sands that he had beaten his wife and one of his children. The warrant for his arrest was issued as told in a previous issue of this paper. When arrested by Constable Childers he made pretense of seeing some one and when he reached the street south of Worden’s harness shop he broke loose and ran away. Officer Childers called to him to halt and when he did stop fired into the ground. He fired in the ground three times and when the man did not stop fired once in his direction, aiming to strike him below the knees. His aim was good, for it is said he has a bullet in his leg and a bad wound, but he has not called a physician and is said to be in need of one but afraid that he will be arrested. It is reported that he not only has a large revolver at the side of his bed but has four or five other guns, all loaded and awaiting mi effort of officers to arrest him.

As previously related Jamison in his flight went west at the Bar! Duvall residence and evidently took shelter in a (died in the rear of some of the houses in that block and apparently it was he who took a bicycle belonging to John Jenkinson, who lives in the old Platt property, for the machine was missed that night and word has been received that it was abandoned and left at the aide of the road near Jamison’s home. There is a pathetic side to the Jamison case, and there is no intention of the officers, Mr. Sands says, to prosecute him if he is not guilty of any further wrong doing. He evidently regards himself as a hunted heart and is determined to fight to the last ditch to protect himself. That he is a bad man when maddened here is no doubt and it would probably be dangerous for any officer to go near him, but if he is in need of medical or surgical attention some effort should be made for him to receive it.