Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-06-04
A BLOODY AFFRAY.
WHISKY CAUSES The TRoOstE-
Partners ia the Salo0o Business Quar-
rel. ard : ight Win Axes Maiists
a8d Snnes

sooGt sIK weeks aso George William
Preston ana hiraul \. Babooez cane hess
from Leroy, rented Tie Dulldluz Ga upper
Canal street oppasits tie hantls hoass and
nibe.i it a. for q hotei sad salo.sn- The botei
4as called the Preston House and sas - be
run - Preston AID nis ~ifs. Sllle babcoez
-as a partner xIth Frest0a ia the saloon
business. BEsiIless eoIaDenced about the
Hr-t " May and all ~ent vel untii within
the past seek, when Preston became dl>saiis-
led with hls partner Ia tne saloon and pro
posed ~ sell ogt o. bay Babcock's interest
Baboock objected. saying the business @as
running al right and proposed ~ continue.
Yesterday nOon they quarreled about the
matter If giving credit at TIE bar aud bao-
cock left the house and came down town.
Between 5 and 8 u clock be returned - thr
house AID sad that he had q revolver, and Il
Preston tr0ubled him be so0ld a ban. tie
gent INTO the bar-rOOHn and locked the d0or,.
fOrblddInz Preston tO enter tie says that
Preston then vent and gOt an Ak. and going
on the outside smashed ln a WlndoS and
climbed in that Nfen be -av Preston COM
lng ia With the Ak he got the beer mailet,
and shen Preston had got ia and was com
knocked him down With the mallet' that
Preston held On o. the Ak aud tried 10 get
up and be hit him again. which caused him
10 drop the az and he then unlocked the door
and pushed Preston Oat. he denies using a
knife or striking Preston until be was inside
the room and when he Sas about 10 U.s. the
az.
Mr.. Preston tells somewhat different
story She say that when Baboock returned
from down town he wa drunk, and said that
BE- would run that bar aud II Preston under
took % interfere with him be would Kill him
with revolver which he had obtained for
that purpose After BabcOck had locked
himself ia the bar-roOm her husband pro
posed to 20 IN. She tried % di=suade him,
but he went 10 the window, which was raised,
and A. he put his head through BabcOck
struck him twice with the Inallet, which
80 stunned him that be would have fallen
outside had be not grabbed hold OF him
aud began stabbIng him with large
black handled knife She then
caught hold OF her husband and
tried 10 pull him out, bat Babcock swore al
her and threatened 20 kill her II she did not
let 20. lie pulled her husband inside, cut
ting him, and pounding him with the mallet
autil be- wa inseusIble and then threw him
out Of the door and again locked H. She
screamed. and men from the saw mill across
the way came 20 the house and then went 10
the chair factory and telephoned Sheriff
kinney.
The sheriff went to the scene. arrested
Babcock and took him % Jail, then sent FOR
Doctors Hake and Edie, who went and
dressed Preston's wounds. With the doctors
a lEI EGRAM reporter arrived al the house
and witnessed bloody spectacle. The bar
room looked like slaughter house, the fl0Ol
and walls being spattered with Preston {
blood His clothes and the bed q
which he had been removed were thoroughly
saturated with blood and Mrs. Preston
clothes we're saturated with II IN several
places. Dr.. Hake and Edie. and Dr. Dun
ham who had been called while the Sheriff
was gone to thu Jail. examined the man anC
found seven different wounds made by the
knife. Three of them were on the back oi
the head one near each temple and one OF
each arm. The back of the head also showeC
the effects of the blows from the mallet The
wounds bled prOfusely, but none of them are
considered dangerous. The edges OF the cut.
we're drawn together with threads and ths
doctors left assuring Mrs. Preston that thers
was but little doubt that her husband woulc
recover without any difficulty.
Preston a an Englishman about % year
old When he first came 10 this country he
worked for Colonel +. b. StockbrIdge a.
coachman: then kept livery stable in AllegaI
for ten years. then went TO Cadillac and wa'
proprietor of the first stable IN that place
and about q year ago moved 20 Leroy. Bah
cock il apparently about p years of age
and has been ia the Jewelry business n
Cadillac and Leroy. He l. ex-marshal OF
the village of Leroy He has a wife who re
fused 20 be separated from him and was
locked up with him at the jail last night.