Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — WATTERSON’S SON IS INSANE [ARTICLE]

WATTERSON’S SON IS INSANE

Shoots and Mortally Wounds Hotel Proprietor at Saugerties, N. Y.— Raves in Jail. Saugerties, N. Y., July 2.—Ewing Watterson, eldest son of Henry Watterson. editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who has been suffering from an affection of the mind for several years, became violently insane and shot and mortally wounded Michael J. Martin, proprietor of the Market Street, hotel The shooting was done in the case of the hotel and was without provocation. Watterson ran up the street waving his pistol wildly In the air and firing at everyone who crossed his path. He was pursued by friends of Martin, several of whom had guns which they fired at Watterson, none of the shotstaking effect. Watterson was finally overtaken and captured by a policeman and Is now in the Saugerties jail,' where he raves constantly. Young Watterson owns a farm about five miles from Saugerties, where he lives with his wife and -three children.