Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — FORMER GOODLAND SALOON KEEPER IN TROUBLE. [ARTICLE]

FORMER GOODLAND SALOON KEEPER IN TROUBLE.

Richard A. Hamilton, a former Goodland saloon keeper who moved to Crivitz, Wis., some time ago to engage in the saloon business there, was arrested there last week for shooting and killing Dr. H. F. Conover at a charivari. Conover, it appears, went over to the place where the charivari was going on and attempted to stop the noise. The gun held by Hamilton, who was in the serenading party, was discharged and the doctor fell dead. Hamilton says the gun was discharged by accident, out he was arrested and held pending the inquest. Later: In a letter to bis brother Heber Hamilton of Goodland, “Dick” says the doctor was in the crowd serenading, and in putting the shells in his gun it was accidently discharged and struck the doctor in the leg and be bled to death. The coroner’s verdict charges careless handling of the gun by Hamilton, and his bond was fixed at SB,OOO to appear in court next* Tuesday and answer the charge.