Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — ANOTHER SHOOTING SCRAPE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER SHOOTING SCRAPE.

Njohn Thornton, a young man residing near the depot, was shot in the leg Wednesday night by Mrs. Wm. McClintock, also of that locality, whom he alleges he had accompanied home that same evening. The shot was from a 32caliber revolver, and struck him in the right leg a little below the knee, lodging in the calf of the leg. It is not considered a dangerous wound. Mrs. McClintock’s husband recently left her, and it is said that she has been quite sweet on young Thornton lately. Her action in shooting him is said to have been prompted threrugh jealousy, he having shown some other female some attention lately. He is said to have been considerably under the influence of liquor at the time of the shooting.Q, Mrs. McClintock was arrested Thursday on warrant sworn out by by John H. Thornton, the boy’s father, and the trial is in progress as we go to press. We understand an effort is to be made to declare her insane which it is not thought will be hard to do.