Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — POKER GAME CAUSES SHOOTING [ARTICLE]

POKER GAME CAUSES SHOOTING

Card Missing in Game—Double-Rar-reled Shotgun Used Effectively. Lowell, Ind., July 24.—The old Gardner resort on the Kankakee river in West Creek township was the scene of much excitement and danger Sunday forenoon. Victor Barrens who is in charge of the place had invited a company of triends there and a game of poker was going on when some one stole a card and a row and free for all fight started. Nearly all the furniture was smashed up. About this time Jim Phillips, a young ex-Ken-tuckian about 25 years old, got hold of a shot gun and fired into the crowd' and instantly he was monarch of all he surveyed. The crowd went in all directions. While Edward Brooks, a horse trader from Newton county was hiking out Phillips emptied a barrel of shot into the fleshy part of his left leg and the right leg was burned with powder.

A doctor from Momence dressed his wound and he was able to walk off. Phillips, who is a young’ married man, went home, threw the gun on the floor, went to bed and was sound asleep when Sheriff Grant and Deputies Fred Furman, Tom Platt and Fred Buse arrived there about 11:30 and arrested him. When awakened he asked: “Is that you, Mr. Grant? All right, I've been waiting for you.” He is now lodged in the county jail to await further action.