The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-22
The Widow and the Dentist After
Their ASsailantS With
a Sharp Stick.
There was No Criminal Intim acy
and They Will he Able
TO Prove LII.
Warrants Issued for the Artists
Who Did the Tar and
Feather Act.
The Dentist Makes a Statement
TO a Representative OF
the "BaZOO."

Clinton, Mo-, June IL Special. !!
Considerable interest Is being manifested
in the late sensation which MOntrose ex-
perienced during the early part oi the
week. and I'm which a young dentist and
an attractive widow came to grief.
The above mentioned persons yesterday
swore out warrants for the arrest OF the
six most prominent participants in Mon
DAVIS affray, viz: ElSoOd Custer, the
widows brother; Al. Rounds, her brother
iu-law: links Teller, Rose Whiting, Jim
TYNE and Geo Teller. The sheriff and
two other officers were Immediately dis
patched to Montrose to effect the arrest OF
the men.
BILLING AND COOLING.
The couple, when approached BY a
BAzoo correspondent, was seated IN two
rustic chairs on the porch Of the Allen
house. After Introducing himself, your
correspondent entered upon an interview,
which the plucky little widow objected to,
and babe the reporter seek the OF
ficials. Her companion, however,
upon the request OF your CORES
pendent, stepped INTO private apartment
and granted a lengthy interview; which, IN
| brief, Is as follows:
The dentists name is Il. &. Axtel, of
good family, and formerly OF Bloomfield,
Green county, Indiana, where his folks
still reside, and where his brother i prose
cuting attorney. He had been IN Montrose
one month and boarded and II ted up an
Office at the Montrose house, run by his
| fair companion, whose name Is Mrs. Ellen
Smith. She has resided in Montrose six
months, and was formerly OF Bloomfield,
Ia, where her husband, who was farmer,
died. leaving her well of. She has OF late
had several suitors, Axtel being among the
number. and her brother and relatives this
is his story believing matrimony would
depriye them of the benefits OF her money,
strenuously objected, and Saturday night
ROTTEN EDGED THE HOTEL
and occupants. Sunday and Monday they
received warnings to leave the town, and
did so Monday eveing at o'clock,
reaching Ladue at 9 o'clock. Mrs Smith
soon discovered that she had forgotten sew
ieral valuable papers and had not given her
children lshe has fonr) the necessary in
structions. and also that her solid man had
forgotten hi instruments, hence they start
ed To return al 8 o'clock and reached Mont
rose at 10. and proceeded Immediately to
Deyirts restaurant, where the children
were placed. A few minutes later Custer,
the widows brother, entered, followed by
, several other men. Custer accOsted ANte
with "G-d d-n you, leave town." The
later declared he would leave town Tues
day morning if left alone, whereupon tho
former replied he must leave that night
!, and giving an apparent signal, four mel
took hold of him and carried him TO the
, door of the restaurant. In the meanwhile
Custer. who had struck at his sister, wa:
stabbed by the latter.
ssThis was the moment IN act. i drew
knife and commenced cutting away in tn
crowd. Then the crowd rushed upon me ant
carried me some distance, when they drop
L ped me and walked TO place about on
: mile from town, where they
{ TARRED AND FEATHERED NE
after the operation went to Ladue
where ! remained until j got rid o
S the coat, and remained there until TIN
r morning, wher i came up here with Mrs
: Smith. who, n eanwhile, remained at Mont
rose. I saw the prosecuting attorney TIN
morning and swOre out warrants agains
the SIX men, charging them with assault
d with intent 10 kill.
q Axtil denied positively that there ha
: been, as reported, any improper relation
existing between them, and declared In
= inhabitants of Montrose had always pre-
Q nounced her a virtuous woman. He add
4 ed that she was very good friend of hi:
and he was in the habit OF helping her
. her Office and doing chores. He istwenty
. eight wears old and she thirty-two.
b The couple returned home tonight, IN
widow going TO Montrose, and the dents
to Ladue.
THE VICTIMS.
The following are the victims OF the Gu
ting: George Braydon, sewing maehin
. agent, five gashes in the face, one deep CT
in the arm and three in the back; !
Rounds, upper part of the arm cut to II
bone; Elw God Custer, walking on crutche
Is deep cash in the thigh and one in the arr
~ Several others received less dangero'
, wounds.
D, The assailants, however, tell ditierel
Of story, claiming criminal intimacy has e!
is isted between them for some time ar
Is their actions becoming intolerable In
he respectable community, they took Il
is course as above described.
1t Stranded by the Road Side.