GIRL'S ESCORT SHOOTS DOWN YOUNG FARMER
Quarrels After He Calls to Discuss Property Deal With Her
Dies in Hospital Here
Sequel to Return From West When Love Refused to Die
Rekindled love for the young school teacher who divorced him less that a year ago today had cost the life of John M. Roland, 27, young farmer who only last Friday returned to his home near Elkland, Mo., after spending several months in California.
Roland was mortally wounded at 11 o'clock last night during a bitter quarrel with Ralph Moore, farm youth living four miles west of Conway, whom he found with his former wife when he went to visit her at the farm home where she has been boarding. The man died at 6 o'clock this moring in Springfield Baptist hospital, where he was taken two hours before by Dr. E. M. Bailey of Elkland.
Aftermath of Divorce
The shooting today appeared clearly to have been the aftermath of Mrs. Roland's successful divorce suit about a year ago, when she won a decree of separation and her maiden name, Minnie Graves, was restored.
Since the divorce, Roland had been in California, but Friday he returned to Elkland, where lived his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Roland. Back home, he found that his former wife has been teaching school at Shady Gove, west of Conway in Dallas county, living there in the home of William Levens, a prominent farmer.
Friend Hears Quarrel
Late last night Roland is said to have asked Russell Gower, a friend living in Elkland, to drive him to the Levens home to see his former wife regarding disposition of some of their property. When they arrived, Gower said, they found another car parked in from of the Levens home, and stopped their machine 50 feet or more behind it.
Roland walked up to the other car, found his ex-wifed and Ralph Moore, 20, a neighboring farmer, sitting in it, and soon was quarreling with them. Gower said he heard someone say "something about shooting" and started to jump out of his machine when he heard one shot and Roland fell to the ground. Roland's revolver clattered to the ground at his feet.
Roland was shot through the abdomen, and Docter Bailey of Elkland was summoned as the injured man was carried into the Levens home. Doctor Bailey put the patient in his own car and started for Springfield soon after he arrived, reaching the hospital a 4 o'clock but all treatment was futile.
Authorities of Dallas county, in which the shooting occurred, today were slow in investigating the case. Sheriff Clarence E. Hyde of Buffalo said he planned to take no action against Moore until a complaint was filed or a verdict returned by a coroner's jury, and he seemed to expect Dr. Murray Stone, coroner of Greene county, to conduct the inquest. Doctor Stone said he probably would hold no inquest here but counted upon Dallas county officers making the principal investigation.
An autopsy was to be conducted here today by Doctor Stone, however, to determine definitely the cause of the man's death. the body is being held at the Klingner funeral home here.
Springfield Newspaper
29 Sep 1930
Quarrels After He Calls to Discuss Property Deal With Her
Dies in Hospital Here
Sequel to Return From West When Love Refused to Die
Rekindled love for the young school teacher who divorced him less that a year ago today had cost the life of John M. Roland, 27, young farmer who only last Friday returned to his home near Elkland, Mo., after spending several months in California.
Roland was mortally wounded at 11 o'clock last night during a bitter quarrel with Ralph Moore, farm youth living four miles west of Conway, whom he found with his former wife when he went to visit her at the farm home where she has been boarding. The man died at 6 o'clock this moring in Springfield Baptist hospital, where he was taken two hours before by Dr. E. M. Bailey of Elkland.
Aftermath of Divorce
The shooting today appeared clearly to have been the aftermath of Mrs. Roland's successful divorce suit about a year ago, when she won a decree of separation and her maiden name, Minnie Graves, was restored.
Since the divorce, Roland had been in California, but Friday he returned to Elkland, where lived his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Roland. Back home, he found that his former wife has been teaching school at Shady Gove, west of Conway in Dallas county, living there in the home of William Levens, a prominent farmer.
Friend Hears Quarrel
Late last night Roland is said to have asked Russell Gower, a friend living in Elkland, to drive him to the Levens home to see his former wife regarding disposition of some of their property. When they arrived, Gower said, they found another car parked in from of the Levens home, and stopped their machine 50 feet or more behind it.
Roland walked up to the other car, found his ex-wifed and Ralph Moore, 20, a neighboring farmer, sitting in it, and soon was quarreling with them. Gower said he heard someone say "something about shooting" and started to jump out of his machine when he heard one shot and Roland fell to the ground. Roland's revolver clattered to the ground at his feet.
Roland was shot through the abdomen, and Docter Bailey of Elkland was summoned as the injured man was carried into the Levens home. Doctor Bailey put the patient in his own car and started for Springfield soon after he arrived, reaching the hospital a 4 o'clock but all treatment was futile.
Authorities of Dallas county, in which the shooting occurred, today were slow in investigating the case. Sheriff Clarence E. Hyde of Buffalo said he planned to take no action against Moore until a complaint was filed or a verdict returned by a coroner's jury, and he seemed to expect Dr. Murray Stone, coroner of Greene county, to conduct the inquest. Doctor Stone said he probably would hold no inquest here but counted upon Dallas county officers making the principal investigation.
An autopsy was to be conducted here today by Doctor Stone, however, to determine definitely the cause of the man's death. the body is being held at the Klingner funeral home here.
Springfield Newspaper
29 Sep 1930
GIRL'S ESCORT SHOOTS DOWN YOUNG FARMER
Quarrels After He Calls to Discuss Property Deal With Her
Dies in Hospital Here
Sequel to Return From West When Love Refused to Die
Rekindled love for the young school teacher who divorced him less that a year ago today had cost the life of John M. Roland, 27, young farmer who only last Friday returned to his home near Elkland, Mo., after spending several months in California.
Roland was mortally wounded at 11 o'clock last night during a bitter quarrel with Ralph Moore, farm youth living four miles west of Conway, whom he found with his former wife when he went to visit her at the farm home where she has been boarding. The man died at 6 o'clock this moring in Springfield Baptist hospital, where he was taken two hours before by Dr. E. M. Bailey of Elkland.
Aftermath of Divorce
The shooting today appeared clearly to have been the aftermath of Mrs. Roland's successful divorce suit about a year ago, when she won a decree of separation and her maiden name, Minnie Graves, was restored.
Since the divorce, Roland had been in California, but Friday he returned to Elkland, where lived his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Roland. Back home, he found that his former wife has been teaching school at Shady Gove, west of Conway in Dallas county, living there in the home of William Levens, a prominent farmer.
Friend Hears Quarrel
Late last night Roland is said to have asked Russell Gower, a friend living in Elkland, to drive him to the Levens home to see his former wife regarding disposition of some of their property. When they arrived, Gower said, they found another car parked in from of the Levens home, and stopped their machine 50 feet or more behind it.
Roland walked up to the other car, found his ex-wifed and Ralph Moore, 20, a neighboring farmer, sitting in it, and soon was quarreling with them. Gower said he heard someone say "something about shooting" and started to jump out of his machine when he heard one shot and Roland fell to the ground. Roland's revolver clattered to the ground at his feet.
Roland was shot through the abdomen, and Docter Bailey of Elkland was summoned as the injured man was carried into the Levens home. Doctor Bailey put the patient in his own car and started for Springfield soon after he arrived, reaching the hospital a 4 o'clock but all treatment was futile.
Authorities of Dallas county, in which the shooting occurred, today were slow in investigating the case. Sheriff Clarence E. Hyde of Buffalo said he planned to take no action against Moore until a complaint was filed or a verdict returned by a coroner's jury, and he seemed to expect Dr. Murray Stone, coroner of Greene county, to conduct the inquest. Doctor Stone said he probably would hold no inquest here but counted upon Dallas county officers making the principal investigation.
An autopsy was to be conducted here today by Doctor Stone, however, to determine definitely the cause of the man's death. the body is being held at the Klingner funeral home here.
Springfield Newspaper
29 Sep 1930
Quarrels After He Calls to Discuss Property Deal With Her
Dies in Hospital Here
Sequel to Return From West When Love Refused to Die
Rekindled love for the young school teacher who divorced him less that a year ago today had cost the life of John M. Roland, 27, young farmer who only last Friday returned to his home near Elkland, Mo., after spending several months in California.
Roland was mortally wounded at 11 o'clock last night during a bitter quarrel with Ralph Moore, farm youth living four miles west of Conway, whom he found with his former wife when he went to visit her at the farm home where she has been boarding. The man died at 6 o'clock this moring in Springfield Baptist hospital, where he was taken two hours before by Dr. E. M. Bailey of Elkland.
Aftermath of Divorce
The shooting today appeared clearly to have been the aftermath of Mrs. Roland's successful divorce suit about a year ago, when she won a decree of separation and her maiden name, Minnie Graves, was restored.
Since the divorce, Roland had been in California, but Friday he returned to Elkland, where lived his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Roland. Back home, he found that his former wife has been teaching school at Shady Gove, west of Conway in Dallas county, living there in the home of William Levens, a prominent farmer.
Friend Hears Quarrel
Late last night Roland is said to have asked Russell Gower, a friend living in Elkland, to drive him to the Levens home to see his former wife regarding disposition of some of their property. When they arrived, Gower said, they found another car parked in from of the Levens home, and stopped their machine 50 feet or more behind it.
Roland walked up to the other car, found his ex-wifed and Ralph Moore, 20, a neighboring farmer, sitting in it, and soon was quarreling with them. Gower said he heard someone say "something about shooting" and started to jump out of his machine when he heard one shot and Roland fell to the ground. Roland's revolver clattered to the ground at his feet.
Roland was shot through the abdomen, and Docter Bailey of Elkland was summoned as the injured man was carried into the Levens home. Doctor Bailey put the patient in his own car and started for Springfield soon after he arrived, reaching the hospital a 4 o'clock but all treatment was futile.
Authorities of Dallas county, in which the shooting occurred, today were slow in investigating the case. Sheriff Clarence E. Hyde of Buffalo said he planned to take no action against Moore until a complaint was filed or a verdict returned by a coroner's jury, and he seemed to expect Dr. Murray Stone, coroner of Greene county, to conduct the inquest. Doctor Stone said he probably would hold no inquest here but counted upon Dallas county officers making the principal investigation.
An autopsy was to be conducted here today by Doctor Stone, however, to determine definitely the cause of the man's death. the body is being held at the Klingner funeral home here.
Springfield Newspaper
29 Sep 1930
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