Butler County OhArchives News.....Trousers Button Stops Bullet as Home Owner Flees from Irate Tenant May 18, 1923
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Hamilton Daily News May 18, 1923
A metal button on the trousers of Jacob Schuck, 21 Wilson street, stopped a 
bullet fired at him at 8:10 p.m., Thursday and prevented it from piercing his 
body. John Vennemann, 28 Hurm street, fired the shot from a 22 caliber 
revolver, the police were told. Schuck testified in municipal court a neighbor 
close to the home of Vennemann when he heard him quarreling with his wife. The 
house Vennemann lives in is owned by Schuck and he went to it and told 
Vennemann he would have to move. Schuck testified in municipal court today 
that Vennemann then accused him of calling the police and reached for his 
revolver. “As he reached for his gun, I turned and started to run through the 
yard,” Schuck said. “While I was running Vennemann fired twice at me. One of 
the bullets missed me and the other struck the button.” “The trouble with my 
wife confused me and I didn't know what I was doing,” Vennemann stated when 
asked by Judge E.J. Kautz what he had to say. He also pleaded guilty to the 
charge of shooting at with intent to kill, filed against him by Schuck. The 
court then bound Vennemann over to the grand jury in the sum of $3000. 
Detectives Morton and Nugent, who arrested Vennemann after the shooting found 
the revolver at the house with two empty chambers.

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