The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-15
Nearly a Murder.

ders. VIM. Miller demonstrated that fact
to his own satisfaction last Friday morning
and was knocked down for his pains. He
| appeared to be out for lark about as
| much as anything else He went into Mr..
Petzky's shoe store and offered to sell
harness makers knife. He was quite lib
eral and although the knife was nice and
sharp and he offered it tor a nickel, he
closed his negotiations without succeeding
in convincing Mr.. Petzky of the pre-emi-
hence of the bargain he was offering him.
He told Mr.. Petzky he was a harness
maker and was directed to Mr.. Thos. Eng
lish to sell the knife. He did not 60 10
that gentleman, but to Mr.. Emil Beyersdor-
fer, to whom he represented himself as
shoemaker and tried again to sell the
knife but failed. About ten o'clock that
forenoon Capt. McLevy, of the tug ''Thom-
as Hood" and several of his crew were
standing before the bar in Mr.. J. Abel's
saloon indulging in little conviviality
over their beer. Among those at the bar
and standing just at Capt. McLevy's left
was Matt Nader, Kenosha man who was
drinking with the others, when this Miller,
who was in the saloon at the time, stepped
up between Chas Harrington and Nader
and offered to sell Harrington his cravat
pin. After little talk Harrington gave
him ten cents. He then came up be-
tween Nader and Capt. McLevy and asked
for drink. Nader told the bar tender to
give him drink, which he did. That did
| not appear to satisfy him and he went
crowding up again for another. Nader
pushed him back with his arm.
| The bar tender and his assistant put him
out then and went back to wait upon their
customers. In about five minutes Miller
re-entered the saloon with the knife in his
appraised hand and as soon as he got
around the screen he made a rush for
Nader. Capt McLevy saw him and tried
to stop him, but he was too late; the blow
fell before he could stop it. The knife
blade entered Mader's neck about an inch
below his left ear and the cash extended
three inches diagonally downward and
toward the spine. The blade, which was
about two inches long, broke off in the
wound close to the handle. It was an Or
binary harness makers knife with round
wooden handle and rattle. thin blade.
The blade had hardly entered Mader's neck
when Capt. McLevy reached the would-be-
murderer and landed blow which sent
him to the floor. Those standing around
who had seen the shooting proceeded to
| kick the PROSTATE rufian soundly. Nader,
in the meantime had put his hand on the
spot where he had been struck and felt the
broken blade still sticking in his neck. He
pulled it out and threw it on the floor and
Ijoined the crowd that was pummeling Mil
Ter. Some one grabbed him and drew him
away and just then Chief of Police Har-
rington appeared On the scene and took
Miller to jail. Nader felt that he was los
} ing blood rapidly and walked over to Rob-
lnson's drug store where DIR. Saunders
dressed the wound.
The trial was held before Justice Gillett
in the afternoon and no defense was offered.
He was bound over to the Circuit Court
under bonds of thousand dollars. Being
unable to furnish the bond, he is taking
rest in the county jail. Miller appears to
be a stranger in Kenosha. After he was
taken to Jail he said he stabbed the man
because he would not pay him the balance
of fifteen cents due on the pin he had sold
him. But he sold the pin to the man
standing beside Nader, and it is supposed
that in his drunken rage he mistook
Nader for the other man, as their backs
were turned toward him, and stabbed the
wrong man. DR.. Saunders testified that if
the knife had gone half an inch deeper or
had cut half an inch further toward the
spinal cord, it would have been fatal and
murder would have been the result of the
little squabble over a cravat pin worth
TWENTY-FIVE cents. Nader is walking
around the streets feeling pretty comfort
able and Will probably be at work again in
a few days.