Concealed Weapons In Jackson County

NEMMERS, NURRE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/29/2009 at 11:41:41

Jackson Sentinel
March 27, 1890

Thinks Jackson County Citizens Should be Allowed to Carry Concealed Weapons

Des Moines, March 24, 1890

EDS. SENTINEL – Representative Nemmers’ bill to amend the laws relating to the carrying of concealed weapons, was referred to the committee on Police Regulations, which has recommended that it be indefinitely postponed. But when the news reached the legislature of the murder of Henry Nurre, of Clinton county, and of the discovery of the gang of thieves up in the Big Woods, and also of the struggle between that young man of Iron Hill and his girl, of whom A. T. F. wrote you, there were many who thought favorably of making a special provision suspending the law against carrying concealed weapons in Jackson county, it being thought that the citizens of that county were entitled to the privilege in self-defense.