Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — Cal Lucas Created Excitement at Remington. [ARTICLE]

Cal Lucas Created Excitement at Remington.

For a time Saturday afternoon j (here was the buzz of excitement oni t lie streets of our usual quiet little town. ; The cause thereof was the threatening of a woman by a man with a ■ I revolver; The underlying facts of tin; case are very hard to ascertain, and we i doubt if anyone outuide of the pen-: i pie involved are aware of just what led up to the extraordinary affair. ! The parties involved are one Cal Lucas, who resides some six or seven miles south of town, and a Mrs. * Bridges, said to be jiis mother-in-law. . Now this is no mother in-law joke! • that we know of, though ther are. ' some people who still hold to the theory that any mother-in-law should lie shot on general principles. Lucas is said to be a widower, and there are various reports out concerning the matter. One is that the wanted to marry another of Mrs, | Bridges daughters, and that, she objected thereto. !• H owever, -Lucas created quite ai j scene when he went into Hicks >-*torej : and nourished the revolver in a' i threatening manner, and is said td have stated that he was about to commit suicide but there were a few others he would take with him on the long journey. He did nothing more serious than to threaten, though_Jthere were a few bystanders who began to look for some good shelter, and then he took a dig Up to tho present time, we

understand, he has not been apprehended, and it is likely that he will not show up for a while at least. The whole affair is probably nothing more than a culmination of some family affair, and as it looks now, the man’s bark wak considerably more vicious than his bite.—Remington Press. “