Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1897 — Didn’t Hit Hard Enough. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Hit Hard Enough.

Geo. W. Dowell, who used to live at Francesville, and well known here, and who was involved in several sensational affairs, including one shooting scrape, has been “at it again” over at Kofeoraorhls presrent location, as thus described by the Winamac Democrat. “George Dowell, who used to live in this county and whose ‘‘rackets” of one kind or another are remembered, came very near getting his dose in his office at Kokomo last Saturday. In dispute with John F. Campbell, a mall carrier about some rent he reached for his hip pocket, Campbell says, whereupon the latter picked tip a heavy paper weight and struck Dowell a blow upon the forehead that cut the skin open but failed to fracture the skull. Dowell then ran out of the office, but returned taking a revolver from a valise, shot Campbell. The wound proved a harmless flesh scratch on the side, however, from which Campbell will soon be well. Dowell’s wound is said to be not dangerous, either, as to which a gentleman here, while talking to two others Monday evening about the affair, said as he heaved a sigh: “There it is again—didn’t hit him hard enough: just our luck.”