The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-09
MURDERoUs ASSAULT IN YUMA
ToWNSHIP--THE VICTIM NOT
EXPECTED TO LIVE.

EXPECTED TO LIVE.
A murderous assault occurred Thursday
evening at the farm.of Mr.. VIM. Payne
former sheriff of Rock Island County. in
Zuma township, about miles east of
Osborne Station. On the Sterling branch
of the G. B. & @. railroad. The victim
of the attack is John Palmer, single man
about % years of age, and the person who
made the assault is John G. Kaiser known
in the neighborhood as Caspar Kais er.
Both men were employed on the
farm of ex-Sherlff Payne, and
from the Information at present obtained
appear to have been quarreling more or
less during the last few days. The trouble
seems to have eliminated last evening
shortly after supper time. when Kaiser
made the assault, the particulars being as
follows: Some talk took place early in
the evening between the victim and kai-
ser, who seemed to have been considerably
excited thereby, but nothing particular
occurred till Kaiser came in the, kitchen
of the house, where Palmer was seated
near table at which Mrs.
Payne was doing some domestic
work, when the first intimation she had
was seeing Kaiser striking Palmer on the
bead with a hammer. Her cries alarmed
Mr.. Payne who was in the dining room
adjacent looking over some papers He
Immediately fastened into the kitchen and
seeing the fuss but not exactly under
standing its nature, he seized Kaiser who
was striking Palmer as he sat in the
chair, and forcibly dragged him through the
dining room, and elected him through the
outer door into the open air. Mr.. Payne
then returned to the kitchen to
further investigate the matter and found
Palmer still seated in the chair leaning
| back ward and the blood streaming from
| his head. Palmer was unconscious and his
condition appeared so serious, that Dir.
Payne Immediately went out after Kaiser
whom he found still near the house. and
having got him back he made him prison
err and without any waste of time pro-
ceeded to the house of &. j. Brown,
about half a mile off for the purpose of
obtaining assistance, taking Kaiser
as prisoner along with him.
The services of DR.. Ryder, of Osborne.
were obtained without delay. and the
prisoner was taken before Mr. Gregory
| Brown, Justice Of the Peace at Osborn.
aud charge made. The prisoner
ack nowle dged the assault, and examination
was waived. The Justice and other neigh
| bors visited the scene o. the assault where
al! that could had been done by Mrs Payne
and others, but the condition of Palmer
was considered very precarIous, and the
marks Of several blows on the front part
of the face and one wound on the temple,
all on the right side were plainly visible
and caused great Disagreement. The
necessary papers we're made out byJ
Brown, and the prisoner, Ia charge of two
men from Osborn, the justice and his son,
w. s. Brown, started for the depot. By
the 4:30 a. ID train on Friday the justice,
with his son as constable, brought Palmer
| to Rock Island and be was lodged in Jail
| Dr. Pluuimer, of Rock Island, was tele
graphed for and started for Mr.. Psyue's
| farm by the first train.
| Kaiser is an unmarried man about 81
years Of age, and a painter by trade. He
has been in the neighborhood of Osborne
fer the last four years and has at various
times worked at farm work.
| As the grand jury is no| in session the
/ ~ hat
so "a to enable the ease TO be tried at the
! present term of the circuit court.
Tie latest Information is that P4iner's
condition is ot the most serious character,
and the probabilities are that be cannot
survive.
LATER From DR.. Plummer wac re-
turned to town this afternoon we learn
that the patient was sensible at 10 A. NJ,
when he left Mr.. Payne farm, but that
the hopes of recover are only about one in
hundred The wounds are four 10
number on tho right side of the head, and
the face is much swollen and discolored
The blow on the temple fractured Thea
bone, depressing and comminutirg
the same, rupturing the membrane
of the brain, quite quantity
escaping through the wound, The second
blow was below the cheek bone, cutting
through the feshy part and fracturing the
upper jaw bone, There arc two other
wounds, one below the angle of the lower
jaw and one near the chin. An operation
was performed removing the detached
portion and elevating the depressed por-
ton OF the bone of the first wound. Pail
mer is a native of Pennsylvania, and
strange to say retained Consciousness
through the operation.
Old and young. rich and poor, all unite
it testifying to the true merit of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup. For over a quarter
of century it has proven itself a true,
tried and trusted friend. Price 25 cents.
Taken to the Asylum.
THE ARGUS of Dec. 27 contained an
item stating that man, supposed to be
insane, was travelling on the ice near the
Davenport side, in the vicinity of the
bridge, and that the party referred to had
han,, toLar oborra hy tha Da