Solomon Tuttle McIntyre

A little background: Solomon Tuttle McIntire was born in 1852 in Madison, Indiana to Donald Daniel McIntire and Sarah McVay. He was most probably named after his paternal grandmother's father, Solomon Tuttle. Solomon was fifth in the birth order of the McIntire children.  He died on May  22, 1897, having been shot to death two days prior by Lawrence Gordon in Mr. Nicholas Kramer's saloon in Madison, Indiana at the corner of First and Mulberry Street. The following is the report as it was published in the Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, on May 21, 1897.

From the Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, May 21, 1897:

" TWO BULLETS....Fired by Lawrence Gordon, Lodge in the Body of Solomon McIntyre...SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFRAY IN A SALOON...McIntyre Dying-Gordon Under Bond.     In the bar room of Mr. Nicholas Kramer's saloon in the old Wm. Tell House, on the corner of FIrst and Mulberry streets, occured a shooting affray last night which in all probability will result fatally to Solomon Tuttle McIntyre. The young man who used the deadly weapon was Lawrence Gordon, night clerk for the Madison Wharfboat Company. The only actual witnesses of the tragedy, it is said, were Nicholas Kramer and Joseph Rea. A dance was going on in the large dining room of the house, immediately west of the bar room, at the time of the trouble, but it is said it was a nice and orderly affair and there was no connection between it and the shooting. The Courier reporter called on the parties named, but found they had all been advised by their attorneys to say nothing until the trial comes up in Court. It is known that the two men were at odds on account of occurences at the wharfboat, which McIntyre frequented while Gordon was on duty. About half-past 10 o'clock last night Gordon went into the saloon and called for a glass of beer. McIntyre was present, with another man, and was drinking considerably. A difficulty at once sprang up, and McIntyre is said to have struck Gordon, who retorted by striking his assailant with a beer glass. Gordon went out and walked down to the wharfboat, but soon returned and re-entered the bar-room, saying he wanted no trouble, but had come for his change, twenty cents being due him from the bar-keeper. The trouble was renewed, and McIntyre is said to have seized Gordon and tore his clothing. Exactly what transpired leading to the shooting will probably not be known until Court meets, but at any rate three shots were fired inside the bar-room by Gordon, who claims to have acted in self-defense. The first shot missed, but each of the others took effect, one in the right and the other to the left front of McIntyre's bowels. A 38 calibre gun was used. Mr. Joseph Rea, familiarly known as "Baldy", had been called in by Mr. Kramer to help him at the bar a short time before, and was an unwilling witness to the tragedy. He says he would gladly give a hundred dollars if he had not seen anything of it. After the shooting, Gordon returned to the wharfboat, and when officers Renschler and Schwappnober appeared he told them he supposed they wanted him, and he delivered up his revolver and went with them to the Sheriff, who locked him up until this morning. McIntyre was carried to his widowed mother's home, three quarters of a square away, and Dr. Forsbec was summoned. Two gaping wounds were found, from which the bullets had not yet been extracted, and the Doctor pronounced the wounds mortal. McIntyre is forty-four years of age, and unmarried. Gordon is about twenty-two. He is the son in law of R.W. Ball, the grocer, and has an interesting family, consisting of a wife and two small children. This afternoon Gordon was brought before Magistrate Cravens, where he waived a preliminary examination and was allowed to go on $1,000 bond, furnished by Mr. R. W. Ball, until the coming term of Court. Hon. P.E. Bear has been retained as defendant's attorney. The charge is Assault and Battery with intent to kill. "