Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Oyster Poacher Killed. [ARTICLE]

Oyster Poacher Killed.

Caleb Fithian of Parkertown, N. J., aged twenty-one, was shot and killed by aged Jacob Stites, watchman for the oyster planters. Stites Is In jail. The shooting was the result of a long standing war between the oyster planters and clammers of Tuckerton Bay. Stites caught Fithian poaching.