The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-09-16
Not Guilty.

ed and shocked last Monday when, on
receiving the st. Paul Pioneer Press
Of Sunday, the following extract from
an article in the Minneapolis depart
ment of that paper, met our eyes,
under the startling head of "a Serious
Charge-O. G. Hicks of River Falls,
Wis, charged with throwing Mrs.
Scales from the train" The item
read as follows:
On Friday night as the passenger train
on the Manitoba road left Breckenridge. a
middle aged man and lady entered the car.
After taking seats in the passenger car the
man went into the rear door and said the
lady had fallen from the platform. The
train was Immediately backed about three
miles and the body found in an unconscious
condition. AS soon as the tody was found
the man explained that she was not his
wife. Upon being questioned he told sew
eral stories, and at Willmar John w. Arct-
ander, district attorney of Kandyohi coun-
ty, questioned the woman who said that
she had fallen from the train. A telegram
was sent to Minneapolis ordering the mans
arrest and on the arrival of the train there
the woman was taken to the Cottage hos
pital in that city and the man to the police
station. A Pioneer Press reporter called
at the station in Minneapolis and learned
the man was O. C.. Hicks, q builder from
River Falls, Wis; that he was acquainted
with the woman and had gone into the
sleeper and procured berth for himself
and wife. When the train was near Doran
the man came to the front Of the car and
told the porter that the lady had fallen from
the train. He said that she had left for
the water closet, and by mistake had
opened the wrong door, He said the
woman's name is Phoebe A. Scales and
that he met her at Breckenridge He said
he knew her and was assisting her to her
berth when she started to the toilet room,
and by mistake walked out Of the rear
door. At a late hour last night the patient
was resting easy, and will probably re-
cover.
Following this was a statement blythe
attending physician to the effect that
he had found one rib broken and sew
eral wounds on the shoulder and head
in the form of bruises, and that the
rib had injured the lungs, and that in
all probability the woman could not
live. OF conrse all were anxious to
hear and know more, as Mr. Hicks
had been among us long enough to
haYe become quite well and favorably
known here, and all felt little cas-
Ter about his case, when Tuesday
brought Mondays paper with this lit
tie item:
0. C. Hicks, the River Falls contractor
arrested on Saturday charged with pushing
Mrs. Phoebe A. Scales from the Manitoba
train near Doran, was released from custody
yesterday. The woman was much better
yesterday, but was unable to recollect how
she come to leave the train. Hicks left
the station accompanied by his attorney,
Mr.. Wilson, of St. Paul, and will be at the
court this morning at ii o'clock in case
any charges are made against him.
All anxiety for the gentleman was
fully removed, however, when Tues
days paper was received, which CON
tanned the following fully exhonorat-
ing statement from the injured lady
herself and the officials:
On Sunday, O. c. Hicks, who was ar
rested Saturday on suspicion Of having
pushed Mrs. Elvira Scales from the Mani
toba train, near Doran, was released from
custody. Hicks was arrested on the state
ment made by Mrs Scales to the effect that
she was pushed from the train. This, to-
gethcr with the peculiar actions of Hicks,
caused county attorney Alexander Of Kan
dlYOhl county to issue the complaint. Yes-
terday morning Mr.. Arctander, accompan
led by Ed A. Stevens, clerk Of the munich
pal court, visited the Cottage hospital, and
in order to have the matter settled, took
the injured womans deposition. The fol-
lowing is the statement made by the attor-
ney:
EIvira Scales, being duly sworn, derosed
as follows: Was on train going east from
Breckenridge on Friday evening, about II
o'clock; met Charley Hicks in dapot--shook
hands; he asked where | was going; said he
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said, 'Heaton was here Yesterday he said,
1--WE got a sleeping berth for you-an up
per one;" he said 50 as we went on the car;
asked him to show it to me; he showed me
one; said | must go to the water closet;
that is the last / saw Of him; | went to the
water-closet and off of train; don't remem-
Der how; must have slipped oil; went from
the depot to another car and thence to the
sleeper; Hicks was not near me; don't think
| was pushed off.
AS this statement fully exhonorated Mr.
Hicks from any knowledge of bow she came
to fall from the train, the deposition was
not proceeded with any further. The lady
is in very serious condition, owing to
internal injuries received in her fall, and it
will be several weeks before she will have
recovered.
And so it is that "AIl's well that
ends we'll"
The Duluth Tribune complains
that the heretics Of Duluth are among