Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1907 — BADLY BEATEN IN POKER DEN. [ARTICLE]

BADLY BEATEN IN POKER DEN.

Fowler, Ind., Feb. 5.—D. Gilbert, a prominent business man of this city, is lying at the point of death at his home as the result of a beating which he received in a poker den at an early hour this morning. His assailant, Harry Sheetz, is a liveryman. During a game, which was being played in a gambling room operated by Sheetz’s father, Fred Sheetz, a dispute arose and the younger Sheetz assaulted Gilbert in a vicous manner, beating him with a beer bottle and kicking him after he had been knocked unconscious. Gilbert is suffering from paralysis and his death is expected. Sheetz has been arrested charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Fred Sheetz, the proprietor of the gambling room, has fled. For some time the Good Citizens’ league has tried to suppress the gambling rooms here, but has been unsuccessful, as the sporting element has stood too close to the officers.