FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, September 1, 1916 A SHOOTING AFFRAY A shooting affray, fortunately without fatalities, occurred at Flat River about 5 o'clock last Sunday afternoon. The scene of the trouble was opposite the Miners Supply Co. store. W. H. Whaley there met Irvin AuBuchon, who was accompanied by his father-in-law, Cleve Francis. Whaley accused AuBuchon of ruining his sister, Myrtle, 16 years old, under promise of marriage, threatening to kill him if he refused. AuBuchon did not appear to relish the suggested trip, and Whaley drew a revolver. Francis then got between the two younger men, while Whaley fired one shot without effect. In the meantime Harold, a 16-year-old son of Francis, who had witnessed the difficulty from in front of his home, a short distance away, thinking that Whaley had shot at his father, ran into the house and secured a shot gun and fired two shots at Whaley, who responded with three shots at the boy, none of which did any damage. AuBuchon had Whaley arrested on the charge of assault to kill. Whaley also had young Francis arrested on a similar charge. Myrtle Whaley, over whom the trouble arose, had AuBuchon arrested, charged with seduction under promise of marriage. The principals in all three cases were given preliminary hearings on Monday before 'Squire Ramsey, which resulted in Whaley and AuBuchon being bound over to the next term of Circuit Court for trial, and their bonds were fixed at $1,000 each. The State dismissed the case of Harold Francis, on the theory that he was warranted in his actions, through appearances, in his desire to protect his father. It afterwards developed that before the trouble, W. F. Lawrence had called Whaley into his store and plead with him not to cause any trouble, but to permit the law to take its course in redressing the alleged wrongs to his sister. But Whaley seemed determined to avenge the wrong he alleged had been done to his sister, going directly from there to the scene of the trouble. AuBuchon stoutly maintains his innocence of any wrong-doing. He had but a few days prior to the trouble married a daughter of Cleve Francis.