Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — Hook Murder Trial Up In Winamac Today. [ARTICLE]

Hook Murder Trial Up In Winamac Today.

After weeks of delay, the cases of Samuel and William Hook, father and son, charged with the murder of Oris Fout neaf Knox, Ind., was called this Monday mominig in the Pulaski county circuit court, at Winamac. The crime was committed October 21st at the home of Ida May Hook, mother of the dead boy and the wife i of Samuel Hook by second marriage, j Hook and his son, it is alleged, after arming themselves with a shotgun and a revolver/hired an automobile and drove to the home of the boy to get i horse, the possession of which ws£s claimed by Hook and the I woman. Young Fout was also armed and a gun battle followed an altercation between the men. Fout’s body was found lying on the bed with the I wounds inflicted fiy the shotgun, while three bullet wounds were found on William Hook's body. As-1 ter the tragedy the men drove back to Knox and gave themselves up to I the sheriff.