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The J. W. Graeter above referred to is al-
most undoubtedly the same man who was a
partner of L. D. Miller in this city in 1885. He
came here from Vincennes, Indiana, where his
father and sister then resided. He frequently
boasted that his business here was only a side
issue and that his father was very wealthy.
While here he frequently indulged in heavy
drinking and gambling sprees, and at such times
was cross and quarrelsome. While staying at
the Broadway hotel he raised a great distur-
bance one evening while under the influence of
liquor. Mr. Durkee, who was a friend of
Graeter’s, went into the room where Graeter lay
on a bed in the dark and tried to have him keep
quiet. Without warning of any kind he fired
two shots at Mr. Durkee from a revolver, both
bullets passing close to his abdomen and lodg-
ing in the wall, where the holes may yet be
soon. Mr. Durkee believes Graeter to have
been insane while under the influence of liquor,
while others here believe those fits to have
been simply an outlet of his pure cussedness,
under the guise of drunkenness, and still further
believe that his recent murderous freak was of
the same nature and from the same cause, in-
sanity only being a dodge to escape punishment.