The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-23
BLOOD AT A BPTISM.
A Baptismal Rite Yesterday LIN.
terrupted by Drunken
Rough.
Being Rebuked He MaliciOusly
Slabs a Church Member
i'm the Back.

The baptism OF fifteen converts IN
Flat Greek, two miles north of toEn
yesterday by Elder Whipple OF tie
East Sedalia Baptist church. wa: in
terrupted and broken up BY one Of
the most disgraceful and cowardIy
acts that could be committed by a
man. A drunken tough named Tim
Donahue, being prevented from terro. :
izing The congregation, deliberately
crept up behind the man by whom be
had been rebuked and stabbed him
in the back, inaicting an
ugly but not dangerous wounl.
5 range to say, the perpetrator of the
dastardly act is at this writing still al
large.
A large crowd was in attendance
at the baptism, the banks of the stream
b: ing crowded for some distance above
and below the place of immersion by
men, women and children. Just b.
fore the ceremony of baptism was be-
gun, Tim Donohue, a switchman in
the NJ. X. d l., yards, drove up in a
buggy. The statement is that he was
drunk ami tried to drive his team
through the crowd, to the bank of the
creek. Being prevented from doing
SO he hitched his team and entering the
crowd made himself so obnoxious by
his loud and offensive conversation
that several members of the church
commenced demonstrating with him.
This inhamed him to such an extent
that he pulled off his coat and wanted
to fight. when Taylor Holt, a member
of the church-a deacon, so We learl
slapped his Jaws and with the a.
sistance of others elected him from. ;he
crowd. Nothing more was heard
from DOnahue until after the baptis-
NAL ceremony was concluded, when
he slipped up behind Holt ami
plunged the blade of a pocket
knife into ! back. Fortu-
nately the instrument struck ,he
shoulder blade and was diverted from
its course or it would have proven
fatal. In moment a scene of the
widest confusion ensued. The WON
en- shrieked, the children screamed
and the crowd scattered in all direc-
tions, while the brutal would b. Is
sassin was allowed to drive away IN
triumph. Holt came to town AMI
had his wounds dressed, while a war
rant was issued by Justice Halstead
for the apprehension of Danshue |
This was placed in the hands Il The
police about two o'clock yesterday
but up TO neon
to-day he had not been arrested. L;
is said that he skipped the town ST
night and will keep shady. When 50 /
many men were present, it Is strange |
that he was not arrested and brou ghI !
TO town when the act was committed. !
If arrested, Donahue will find h m
self in the middle of bal fix. Be I
side being guilty of disturbing q r. !
igious assemblage he stands an eX-
,ellent show of going to the pen for
telOnious assault, with intent f. kali. !
PROBABLY CAPTURED.
Since writing the above, it was
earned here that DOnahue toak an
Early freight train this morning going !
east. Hearing this, Sheriff Ellis
Smith hurriedly procured another
and boarded the east bound ,
express which passed here at 1910 P. /!
n. He first telegraphed to officers
IN the line ahead of the freight train
o arrest Donahue. 1t is probable
hat he will be taken at Jefferson City
where Sheriff Smith expects to find
lim and bring him back.