Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1915 — Nectarine Responsible For Shooting at Royal Center. [ARTICLE]

Nectarine Responsible For Shooting at Royal Center.

As a result of feeling that has been aroused between the wet and dry forces at Royal Center, James Conn was wounded Saturday by Town Marshal Gaby. The shooting occurred in the front end of John Übelhouser’s soft drink emporium. According to the story of Conn, he stood talking to a man when Marshal Gaby came up and threw a flashlight* inTiis face. Conn said that he suggested to Gaby that he retire and leave him alone, and that this was what started the argument. Conn says that Gaby siezed him and that he shoved him away and started to walk u pthe alley and that it was then that Gaby shot him. Conn then picked up a. stone. . Gaby advanced, placed his gun against Conn’s breast and pulled the trigger but the gun failed to work. Marshal Gaby’s story is that Conn stood on the corner cursing the law and people and inviting any dry man in the world to come forth and do combat. He states that Conn defied arrest and that when he tried to arrest him that Conn resisted and struck at him and It was not until then that he fired. After shooting Conn, Gaby fled three affidavits against him and secured a search warrant to go through-Übelhouser’s place to look for a drink that was being sold under the name of Nectarine. Six barrels were found and destroyed and Übelhouser was lodged in jail until a chemical analysis could be made of it.