Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-12
DASTARDLY DONE.
Cowardly Assault On Veteran
Minnesota Editor.
SHOT WHILE BE LAY HELPLESS.

His Assailant Young Man Whom He
Had Discharged-The Wound Probably
Fatal, and the Perpetrator of the Crime
in JaiI-Base Threats FoulIy Executed
-GhastIy Crime at Glasgow, Scotland
Woman Killed and Her Body Mutilated
ala Jack the Ripper
SALTWATER, Mimi. Oct. 12-Nictor c.
Seward, the veteran Minnesota journalist
and editor of the Saltwater Messenger, was
shot yesterday afternoon probably with IA
tai results, by young man named George
Peters. Passers-by on Main street south
about > o'clock noticed that Peters was
talking loudly and in rather an incoherent
manner to Mr.. Seward, the two standing
on the sidewalk in front of Drechsler's
music store. Suddenly and without warn
ing Peters drew "A revolver and fired at Mr..
Seward, the bullet making flesh wound in
the back of Stewards head.
4 CowartlIy Assassin's Act.
Seward then turned and staggered into
Drechs1er's store, through the open door
way, falling to the floor. Peters followed
him closely, and as the Other lay on the
floor deliberately pointed his revolver aud
again fired, the second bullet entering at
the top of his head and passing around I'M
der the skin came out over the eye. \
third bullet went through Stewards hat
Peters turned and started out of the door.
a couple of byStanders caught the ASSES
sin. He inquired for Chief of Police Short
all, and announced his intention of deliver
ing himself up to justice. He was taken to
the county Jail.
Seward Taken to His Home.
Meantime startled crowd had collected
around Drechsler's store, on the floor of
which, just within the door, Mr. Seward
lay in a pool of his own blood. He was
speedily conveyed to the office of DR.. w. H
Cain, where hasty examination showed
that the wounds We're dangerous. probably
fatal. A few minutes afterward he was
conveyed to his home on South Fifth street
where he now lies. Peters Is young man.
having hardly passed his 9th birthday
About three years ago he was employed by
Seward ms a reporter. but his work not
proving satisfactory he was discharged
and it is thought that this ranked in his
breast.
Had Threatened to Kill His Victim.
He has made repeated threats tokill Sew
ard and to "clean ont" the Office and he
had, in fact, called at Stewards office Il few
minutes before the shooting. looking for his
victim. This summer he was engaged in
vending vegetables, and lived near South
saltwater, three or four miles below
the city. When arrested he seemed
perpectly CAIN, and remarked that
he had come up from South
Saltwater expressly to kill Seward and
hoped that the shots would rv.ve fatal
Said he: IF the trigger of m. gun had
not caught my first shot would have killed
him. ! had q reason and n very good one
for shooting that man, and when the pro
per time comes I may tell it, and maybe
won't That's all I have to say about IT.
Was Pioneer Journalist.
Victor I'd cd ic ~,
pioneer Of Minnesota journalism. having
been employed with II. p. Hall on the St
PaUl papers early in the fifties He has
published the Saltwater Messenger for up
ward OF quarter Of century and has
amasSed Il comfortable fortune. He has a
wife and one daughter, a teacher in the
Saltwater schools.