Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1915 — SHOOTING SCRAPE IN STARKE. [ARTICLE]

SHOOTING SCRAPE IN STARKE.

Samuel and William Hook of Knox, In Jail at Laporte for Killing Orris Font. Valparaiso, Ind., October 22. Orris Fout, of Knox, 20 years old, is dead and Samuel and; William Hook, also of Knox, father, and son, are in jail at Laporte charged with murder. The shooting occurred tonight when the father and son and William Fox, in an automobile drove to the Fout home and demanded a horse which the court yesterday, in a replevin suit, had held belonged to Hook. The Hooks were armed, one carrying a shotgun and the other a revolver. Upon Font’s refusal to deliver the horse the shooting began. Fout was hit with a bullet from the revolver and fell. Samuel Hook then, it is charged, placed his shotgun against the dying boy’s shoulder and fired, tearing his body to shreds. The men then went to Knox, where they gave themselves up and were later taken to Laporte for safe keeping. Both men in jail bear slight bullet wounds. They say they acted in self-defense.