This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/579 Message Board Post: HAD TROUBLE OVER A DOG! WALTER SCOTT, AGED ABOUT 23 YEARS, WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT SULPHUR MINES THIS MORNING( THE PAPER STATES HE EITHER DIED 6-16 OR 6-17- 1917 ABOUT 6:20 IN THE MORNING. CHESSON USED A .38 CALIBER SMITH & WESSON REVOLVER FIRING TWO SHOTS, ONR TAKING EFFECT IN SCOTT'S ABDOMEN, CAUSING DEATH A SHORT TIME LATER. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTING WHICH OCCURRED NEAR THE SANITARIUM AT THE MINES, THE WOUNDED MAN WAS PLACED IN A CAR AND RUSH TOWARD LAKE CHARLES, BUT DIED BY THE TIME MOSSVILLE, LA. WAS REACHED. THE TROUBLE, IT IS SAID TO HAVE STARTED OVER A DOG OWNWD BY SCOTT, IN WHICH HE CLAIMED CHESSON HAD SHOT, IN WHICH SCOTT DEMANDED "REPARATION?" CHESSON IS MARRIED AND HAVE THRE CHILDREN , HIS WIFE(NO NAME GIVEN) IS SAID TO BE AGE bout 30. SCOTT WAS MARRIED AND HAD 1 CHILD. THESE ARE STATEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN MADE: "IT IS SAID THAT SCOTT'S DOG HAD MOLESTED CHESSON, AND THAT CHESSON HAD SHOT IT. HEATED ARGUMENT WAS HAD BETWEEN THE MEN OVER THE MATTER LAST NIGHT, AND THIS MORNING THE SUBJECT CAME UP AGAIN." BOTH MEN WERE EMPLOYED AT THE MINES, THEY WORKED ON THE NIGHT SHIFT AND HAD JUST LEFT WORK THIS MORNING WHEN THE TROUBLE WAS RESUMED. CHESSON WAS STANDING ON THE PORCH OF THE OFFICE AT THE MINES WITH LUNCH BASKET UNDER HIS ARM PREPARING TO GO HOME. SCOTT CAME UP ON HIS BICYCLE AND STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE OFFICE. HE IS SAID TO HAVE ADDRESSED SOME UNCOMPLIMENTARY REMARKS TO CHESSON, WHO AT THE TIME WAS TALKING TO A MAN NAME WALKER, BRINGING UP THE SUBJECT OF CHESSON'S lleged treatment of his dog. chesson remained on the porch for awhile AND SCOTT MOVED OFF. WALKER ANNOUNCED TO CHESSON THAT HE WOULD BE GOING AND CHESSON WENT WITH HIM. THEY PASSED NEAR SCOTT IN FRONT OF THE SANITARIUM, WHEN ACCORDING TO TO CHESSON'S VERSION, SCOTT APPROACHED HIM THREATHENINGLY CHESSON, AFTER TELLING HIM NOT TO BORTHER HIM, PULLED A REVOLVER FROM HIS LUNCH BASKET AND FIRED AT SCOTT. HE MISSED AND IS SAID TO HAVE FIRED AGAIN, THE BALL STRICKING SCOTT IN THE SIDE OF HIS ABDOMEN. SCOTT RAN A SHORT WAYS AND FELL TO HIS KNEES. HE WAS "GOTTEN" INTO AN CAR BY FRIENDS AND THEY STARTED TO LAKE CHARLES, BUT DEATH OVERTOOK THE UNFORTUNATE MAN AT MOSSVILLE, LA. DR. W.L. FISHER, PARISH CORONER WENT TO SULPHUR ABOUT 10:00 TO HOLD THE INQUEST?? CHESSON CAME TO SULPHUR SEVERAL YEARS AGO FROM ABBEVILLE, WHILE SCOTT WAS REARED IN THE SULPHUR NEIGHBORHOOD." NONE OF THESE WORDS ARE MY OWN, THIS CAME FROM LCWAP 6-22-1917 PAGE 1 ROLL 070 STACY FROM CALCASIEU HOPE THIS HELP