Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 9 | Kills Antagonist by Blow on Head

KILLS ffl.GOlT By BLOW 01 HEAD Joe Koury, Overseas Soldier, Sol-dier, Slain by W. D. Grover. BLAOKFOOT, Idaho, July 8. Joe , Koury, a returned American t-oldier, wrf; killed here this morning by a blow on the head with an irrigator's shovel in the hands of W. D. Grover, Jr., who is in the county jail, charged with first-degree murder. Grover telephoned Sheriff Simmons of the act and alleges he acted in elf -defense in a dispute over water distribution. distribu-tion. Koury was a Syrian by birth and had been naturalized. He was a selective draft man from this county and served with the Thirty-second division In France, particularly In Alsace-Lorraine and the Argon ne forest, in active fighting", fight-ing", escaping injury. Later, Koury was with the army of occupation at Coblenz. I He was discharged at Fort Russell, Wyo., I May 28.