Jones County, Iowa News Articles Shooting Scrape Too much booze caused a bad shooting scrape at Oxford Mills last Friday evening. George Coker, who runs a small store at the Mills, while under the influence of booze, shot, and perhaps fatally wounded John Carrington. A lady who lives at Wyoming called at the store and said she wanted to use the telephone. After she had used the phone she discovered she had no money with her and told Mr. Coker so, but he told her that would not go. Mr. Carrington, who was sitting outside the store offered to pay the fee for the lady, but this seemed to intensify Mr. Coker’s anger and he drew a revolver and fired two bullets into Mr. Carrington’s body. The man was alive last night, but he is seriously injured. Mr. Coker has been placed under arrest.-Olin Recorder [Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, Maquoketa, Iowa, Published October 25, 1918] Submitted by Kenneth E. Wright Son Charged in Slaying An 18 year old Oxford Junction youth has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his father earlier this month in Oxford Junction. Jones County authorities said Nathan Blake Watson, 18, was arrested Friday afternoon, January 23, in Manchester and charged with first degree murder in connection with the January 16 shooting of his father, Craig “Rocky” Chase, 42, of Oxford Junction. Chase’s body was found in the school bus in which he lived during the earl morning hours of Friday January 16, following a 911 call received by the Jones County Sheriff’s Department reporting a shooting. Watson, who turned 18 the day after the shooting, apparently was living in the school bus with his father at the time of the shooting, a sheriff’s spokesman said. His mother lives in Manchester, where he was arrested. Watson made a preliminary appearance in Jones County District Court on Monday, January 26, and was being held in the Jones County Detention Center in Anamosa in lieu of $1 million bond pending his next court appearance, scheduled for Wednesday, January 28. No further information about the details of the incident were being made available by the sheriff’s department or the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, which is assisting with the case. [Jackson Sentinel, Published January 28, 1998, submitted by Ken Wright] Vohoski & Carroll Monticello—Otto Vohoski and Leon Carroll, of Oxford Junction, are in jail here, following their indictment for a statutory offense against Miss Eliza Leslie, of Oxford Mills, 17 years old. [Carroll Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Published October 09, 1912, submitted by Cathy Danielson] BACK Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.