Trouble Over Farm Lease and Threats Lead to Wounding of One Farmer by Another.
Special to the News-Press.
MAYSVILLE, Mo., May 8--Jack McConnell, thirty-four years of age, was shot by James Scammahorn, about five miles south of here, at 7 o'clock last evening. They are both farmers, the former, with his father, being a renter from Scammahorn. There had been some misunderstanding over the lease and McConnell had made threats to do violence, it is said. He was out in the road in front of his place when Scammahorn came up in his buggy. Scammahorn fired two shots, one hitting him in the shoulder and the other in the hip. He was taken to Maysville and thence to St. Joseph. Scammahorn gave himself up to the sheriff. He is about sixty years old and a well-to-do farmer.
BROUGHT TO ST. JOSEPH.
Jack McConnell, who was shot near Maysville, was brought here this morning and is at the Noyes Hospital, attended to by Doctor Schmidt. His injuries are quite serious and the chances for his recovery are considered doubtful.
Source: St. Joseph News-Press