The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-29
OUTRAGEOUS OGENS.
They Adorn their Usual Drunk
with a Cutting ARRAY.
Doug Ogen is Dangerously
Carved by His Brother
James.
Nat OQen Takes q Hand In the
General Unpleasantness.

Everybrdy in Sedalia mss long since be-
come familisr with the names of James,
Nat anu Doug Oseu beciu of their fire.
9uent and chronic appearance IN the Trunk
COLUMN OF the polio. records, where they
are IN the habit OF f.urirg about once
week. The three br. .thtrs are gray he adei
men, butsin Their wicked ways Ih-y are as
fr sh d rapid as the younger Wild oats
sewers, and never fail 10 blow in lily per
cent. of their wages for rip sporting Sat
urday spr.e. OF lat however they have
managed TO erjoy about three drunss
week, much 10 toe disgust OF The All tocra
tic cen.z ms of Broadway, along which
thorrughfare they generally pass on IN If
way home TO IN. SOUL n
west part of town, the procession or hone
ward march on sIcl occasions being char
&C cried nv the worst aud nOisiest Obsceni
ty and profanity. List night wac
ONE OF THEIR OCCASIONS
and will doubtless be serions and long re
memb red enc TO them. Al er filling their
tanks with forty roi whisky and purchas
| Jog few provisions for their families, they
st irted sbJuL o'cl. OK up Ohio street sith
their boon com paniol Jim Craig. At the
junction of Broadway and Ohio they LIT
Cr,ig and tursed westward toward thu Ii
home. As they went down Broadway IN
their usual boisterous name,
DISPUTE AROSE
between Jim AMI Doug CO Icerni1g who had
p4id for certain portions OF Ihe groceries
When in front OF the Br, adv y school aud
on the opposite eide of tie street, the dis
pu G culmin sted in fight, which eye wit
MISSES say was Of the iercest sni most bro
tai character ard sccoml anied by the viii ST
Language ever uttered by human laps. La
a moment all three were piled in hesT
! upon the ground, II liking and cursing
Dorg being under the bottom with Jim and
Nat ON top of him. At this juncture
JIM DREW KNIFE,
and exclaimiug, "I'll cut your - heart
out !" began pluDging the knife into hi;
brother.
A gentleman who hsppered to be near
ran up and, pulling Nat od, tried 20 Sc. a
rate The other two, but was prevented bJ
MAJ, who wanted u attack the peace
maker. Happily for all jim lost his griI
upon mis- knife and sprAng to mis- e., eX
claiming:
"I've lost my knife. Whs res my kuif y
Failing 10 find il he started home swear
ing vengeance, while Doug lsy weltering IL
his blood me aiming:
"You have cut me- You have cut me =
Tn. police were hastily cent for, ant
when they arrived succeeded in srTestin.
Nat aiier pretty brisk tight in which Ia
was pretty severely handled. he wa
taken 10 the siatiyn, as VS. also his in
jured bro;h'r, and the police then wen
at er jim, the cuttist, who was captured a
his home and locked up. When brough
in h. begged TO be allowed to go bone, 3
he had
VERY SICK WIFE.
His p eadings, however, were of no av iii
and he was placed in cell No. 4, after whic
the police s'sried out to hunt up jim
Craig 10 learn what he knew about tn,
difficulty.
DIR. Ed. Small vas called in to dress Dou
Cgeu's wouuSs, which consisted of q sever
cash Oh the left hand, extending from tn
wrist TO the middle and little fingers, an
other cut which split the upper lip entlrel
in two from the left side Of the nose to tn
center OF the mou b, and stab in the lei
side OF the neck directly over the iugula
vein. This cut is by far the most seriou:
of any, ard bled profusely. The neck va
much swollen, and il may be possible tina
fatal results will ensue.
NAT cGEN
aimed that he did not have anything q
do with the fight, but used his b st eadeav.
ors 10 s'p4rate The ccmbatan's. snd tina
it was Jim Osen who did all tn
cutting. The las, part of his story il
undoubtedly true, b1t parties who wer,
rresebt or rear by inform i reporter tn =
he was as violent in the beginning of til
affrAy as were the others and that be seemed
TO he aiding jim in his efforts to pun.sI
Doug Osen.
Nat also corroboratsd the statement tha
they parted with Craig at Ohio street, anC
that Lo one was in any way engaged in tn,
ARRAY except the three brothers.
JIM oGEN
af .er his arrest denied thai he did the cut
ting and elaine not tn know VINO did il
When a-ked whist he did with his kGifs b,
} laughed and said h hsd no knife apC
wanted TO b. search ID on the way to prison
He said they had fuss about some yroct r
lis, bu. that he bought them sud had car
iied tht m all home with him.
DOUG oGEN
was too div hurt TO make any st t.men
and will probably not be in much of a CON
dition 10 do so for = day or two. The knii
of jim Osen, a wicked looking one-b adec
Barlow knife, was p,cStd up where he los
l. in the affIay, covered with blood and j
in the possession OF the police.
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