FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, June 20, 1912 DOUBLE MURDER AT IRON MOUNTAIN LAKE Gent Gibson and Mont Hall were shot and killed by James Schrum and his son Harvey Schrum last Saturday morning at Iron Mountain Lake. Dr. J. H. English, County Coroner, held an inquest over the bodies Sunday, at which the following salient facts were elicited: Gent Gibson and Mont Hall went to Abe Haile's, who has a fishing place on the lake, and Gibson told Haile he wanted to get a couple of fish for his father. Haile said he didn't have any fish, but they could soon catch some. So they all sat down on the bank or levee of the lake, together with James W. Forshee, Sr., who was also there. While they were fishing James Schrum and his son Harvey Schrum came up, the former having a Winchester rifle and the latter a shotgun. Haile asked them if they were going to fish and they replied that they thought they would. Haile then told that they might catch some fish down at the falls, to which the elder Schrum replied "There are two d----d fish right here that I'm going to get, and I'm going to get them on my string right away." Haile started to the house, and Forshee, in his testimony, said that the elder Schrum said, "Gibson, I'm getting tired of this shotgun shooting and we are going to settle it right here, and I'm going to get you, too." Gibson said "All right," and started to get up, when the elder Schrum shot him with the Winchester, the ball entering on the right side of the shoulder blade. Mont Hall then got up and started to run to Haile's house, and had got about thirty feet away when both Schrums fired at him, the one with the Winchester and the other with a shotgun. The Winchester ball struck him just under and back of the left armpit and ranged across the body. The shot from the shotgun struck him on the back of the neck, shoulder and right arm, breaking the arm, forty-one shot taking effect as was developed at the inquest. Hall succeeded in reaching Haile's house when he fell. The Schrums reloaded their guns, and the elder Schrum remarked that "that fellow Gibson might get up yet and I'm going back and shoot his ----- head off," when Forshee stepped between him and where Gibson was lying and told him that he had already killed him and couldn't do anything more. The younger Schrum went to the house and tried to get in to shoot Hall again, but Haile stopped him. The two Schrums then shook hands with Haile and told him the next time he saw them he would see them in Farmington. Gibson and Hall lived about two hours after being shot and before medical aid could be summoned and reach them. The verdict of the coroner's jury was in effect that Gent Gibson came to his death by gunshot wound inflicted by James Schrum, and Mont Hall came to his death by gunshot wounds inflicted by James Schrum and Harvey Schrum, both with felonious intent. Sheriff London received information of the murder Saturday morning and telephoned the facts to the Sheriff of Iron county to be on the look-out. While he was getting ready to start for the Mountain he received a telephone message from the elder Schrum that they would be in Farmington on Monday to give themselves up; but Sheriff London didn't change his plans for that -- he started at once. The Schrums had left the Mountain and gone to Graniteville. From there they telephoned to the Mountain to inquire whether their victims were dead. The Sheriff of Iron county getting word of this went to Graniteville, placed them under arrest and took them to Iron Mountain where he turned them over to Sheriff London. They are now in jail.