Muncie Murder Mayhem by Douglas Walker Keith Roysdon

Author:Douglas Walker, Keith Roysdon [Douglas Walker, Keith Roysdon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI), Photography, Subjects & Themes, Regional, Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws
ISBN: 9781439664261
Google: GTBbDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018-05-07T00:39:41+00:00

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Over the decades, Muncie’s taverns served up cold beer and hot death. From the city’s earliest days until the end of many neighborhood taverns and hole-in-the-wall bars as the community’s industrial age faded—taking workers and their paychecks with it—Muncie’s bars and watering holes were known as a good place to have a cold brew, meet your future spouse and gamble…sometimes with your life. Tavern patrons, with a bellyful of beer or whiskey, were known to start a fight, only to be thrown out of the premises by the bartender or bouncer.

In July 1953, however, mayhem came from behind the bar, when bartender Delmo Cooper allegedly shot and killed Melvin Grubbs outside the Fireside Inn, on U.S. 35 South, just outside the Muncie city limits. Initial accounts indicated that Cooper, who confessed to the shooting early on but was acquitted in two separate trials in the years that followed, was incensed that Grubbs used vulgar language in front of Cooper’s wife. But testimony that followed indicated a more complicated, personal beef on Cooper’s part.

The shooting occurred on Cooper’s twenty-eighth birthday. Grubbs was twenty-three. Newspaper accounts focused to a great extent on Cooper’s looks, noting in the second paragraph that he was “ruggedly handsome.” Also noted was that he was “dressed neatly in a white shirt and well-pressed trousers.”

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