Emmett Horsman, De Kalb County, Criticaly [sic] Wounded.
Brother-in-Law Says He Fired in Self-Defense During Quarrel.
Special to the News-Press.
CLARKSDALE, Mo., Dec. 27.--Emmett Horsman, farmer near here, was taken to a St. Joseph hospital dangerously wounded this morning and Eldon Flinn, his brother-in-law, who said he shot him in self-defense, was lodged in jail at Maysville where De Kalb County officials held charged in abeyance pending outcome of the shooting.
Horsman, father of seven children, and his brother, William, went to the Flinn home, six miles northeast of here, this morning. An argument developed over the Horsman estate, Flinn told officers. Flinn is married to the Horsemans' sister, and a partition suit is now on file in Maysville. As the quarrel developed this morning, Flinn said, Horsman attacked him with a club and he retaliated by shooting him twice with a .32-caliber revolver.
After receiving first aid at Maysville, Horsman was taken to St. Joseph. Flinn was removed to jail at Maysville by Sheriff-elect Robert Daniels and Deputy Sheriff Spencer Brant.
The sheriff-elect and the deputy took possession of the club which Flinn and Horsman used, and an ax and a cornknife which Flinn said they also carried.
Flinn and his wife live on the original Horsman farm. The wounded man lives on a farm nearby. Sheriff Vernon D. Campbell of De Kalb County was in St. Joseph this afternoon endeavoring to get a statement from the victim of the shooting.
Horsman was brought to St. Joseph in a Lyons ambulance from Stewartsville. He was taken to the Missouri Methodist Hospital where an emergency operation was performed by Dr. Paul Forgrave. Doctor Forgrave said the nam had been shot twice, in the abdomen and in the back. The spinal cord was severed, the doctor said, and there were eight perforations in the intestines. The man was still conscious this afternoon.
Source: St. Joseph News-Press, 27 December 1932.