Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Ex-Minister Shoots Friend. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Minister Shoots Friend.

Dr. J. G. Jessup, a dentist, was shot and fatally wounded at Berkeley, Cal-, by the Rev. Charles Adams, formerly an Episcopal minister. It is stated that Adams’ daughter called Jessup by telephone and asked him to come to her home' and prevent her father from whipping her. When Jessup arrived at the Adams house and remonstrated with him Adams drew a revolver and shot the dentist through the breast. Adams is in jail and Jessup is dying. The Rev. Charles G. Adams, who shot and wounded, probably fatally, Dr. J. G. Jessup, is well known throughout the East. He was born about fifty years ago in Delaware county, N. Y. He held the pastorate of St. Mark’s Chapel in New York City, also, of the Church of the Incarnation in the same city. He also filled pulpits in Fremont and Cincinnati, O.