Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — FIVE BULLETS INTO CROWD [ARTICLE]

FIVE BULLETS INTO CROWD

Kills One and Wounds Two In “Clean Out” of Omaha Saloon. Omaha, July 20.—Jess Smith of Trinidad, Colo., fired five revolver shots into a crowd in a saloon here, killing James Rollins, a colored piano player, and seriously injuring James F. McGinnlty, a bystander, and an unknown man. Smith had been ejected from the saloon for threatening the bartender and returned with a gun to “clean out” the place.