Jackson-Jones County IA Archives News.....Shooting Scrape October 25, 1918
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Maquoketa Excelsior-Record October 25, 1918
Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 25, 1918

Shooting Scrape-

Too much booze caused a bad shooting scrape at Oxford Mills last Friday 
evening. George Coker, who runs a small store at the Mills, while under the 
influence of booze, shot, and perhaps fatally wounded John Carrington. A lady 
who lives at Wyoming called at the store and said she wanted to use the 
telephone. After she had used the phone she discovered she had no money with 
her and told Mr. Coker so, but he told her that would not go. Mr. Carrington, 
who was sitting outside the store offered to pay the fee for the lady, but 
this seemed to intensify Mr. Coker’s anger and he drew a revolver and fired 
two bullets into Mr. Carrington’s body. The man was alive last night, but he 
is seriously injured. Mr. Coker has been placed under arrest.-Olin Recorder


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