People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Shooting at Shelby. [ARTICLE]

Shooting at Shelby.

Christie Vick was down from Shelby .Monday. He related the particulars of the shooting of Andrew DeFries by his brother-in-law, Heman Hasper, Sunday morning, and considered the act a most deliberate attempt at murder. It appears that Christie gave a public ball in the DeFries house Saturday night at which a luncheon was to have been served by Hasper, who was employed by DeFries. For some reason Hasper refused to serve the lunch, and in the morning DeFries quarreled with him over the matter. It is said that DeFries struck at Hasper, When the latter drew a revolver and shot the former in the abdomen. It is probable that the wound will prove fatal. Hasper gave himself up to the officers at Crown Point and is now in jail there.