Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-11
VOL. VIII

not discovered til the second of the
conspilators had left, and there is no
clue to their identity. They had evi-
IDENTIFY tamlliarized themselves with the
internal arrangement of the store, and
timed their raid when Mr.. Walker was
ont, leaving but one attendant in the
store.
In the district eourt OF osceola coun-
ty, in the case of the state VS.. Charles
II. Parker, charged with the seduction
of Christina Anderson, young girl,
Judge Wakefield, after overriding a
motion in arrest of judgment and mo-
ton for new trial, sentenced Parker
to three years in the state penitcntiary
at Anamosa, The appeal bond was
placed at SO, 500. Parker was a married
man over 40 years old when he entered
upon course Of criminal intimacy
with the girl, who was q servant in his
family. The girl at that time was but
little more than fourteen years old.
She is now sixteen, and has child four
months old. She swears Parker Is the
father Of her child.
Mrs. Harry Lavcne chastised Ed.
Penn with blacksna<e whip at Des
Moines. 1t all occurred in Lavanes
sale stable on the corner of East Fifth
and Raccoon streets, in the presence of
several men. Penn lives on East Wal
nut street, and runs carriage rcposi-
L.
the barn in question with another man
to assist him in buying a horse. Soon
after they entered Mrs Lavcne came
IN There was metapnor.cal blood in
her eye and her pretty face wore a
frown. In her right hand she carried
4 blacksnake whip concealed behind
her. She walked up to Penn and said;
'You have slandered me and my hus.
band; now take that" Then she
struck him with the whip a score of
times before she was disarmed. The
trouble apparently grew out of some
hot words over business transaction.
Mr. Penn was only Slightly injured.
w. A. Hills, who has been living in
Shenandoah with woman who passed
as his wife, is under arrest and is con-
fined in jail at Clarinda in default of
bail. The complaining witness is a
woman claiming to be Clara Belle
Hills, the wife of w. A. Hills Hills
and wife No . have been living in
Shenandoah for some time, and there
are those who think the woman is
really innocent and was herself de-
ccived. She was married to Hills al
Gallatin, Missouri, October 3, 1892, but
first met him at Hastings, Iowa, in
February of the same year. She Is
twcnty-one years oil and to ali APP
pearances a woman of refinement and
taste. Hills is fifty years old His
HAIR is quite gray and he does not look
like man hardened in crime. The
evidence is very strong against him, as
both wives have their original marriage
certificates.
The Fremont county bridge repairers
have been repairing the bridge just
west of Riverton and were camped
there in a tent. Some farmers that
live near named Van Eaton and Chas.
Ogden went there few evenings since
with a keg OF beef to have a time. In
their company was Young man
named George Scott After they had
drunk the beer they all engaged in Il
game of cars and young Scott and one
Of the bridge hands named Oliver Cloud
got into n quarrel over the game.
Cloud. called Scott a liar, and as Scott
made motion to rise up Cloud drew u
revolver and shot him dead, the ball en-
tering Just below the right cheek and
ranging backwards, perhaps lodging in
the region of the mcdulla oblongata,
killing him instantly. Scott was sin
gle man, and well liked and respected
by every one. He lived with his pa
rents, who are very old Cloud went
to Sidney and gave himself up to the
sheriff, and the coroner held an in
quest, the jury rendering Il verdict that
Scott came to his death from gun
shot. fred in the hands of Oliver Cloud.
Webb Moon works for the American
Express Company at Des Moines and
lives with his wife and child near the
state fair grounds. Mrs. Moon is good
looking brunette. with brown hair
and eyes and is about - years of age.
Until short time ago Mrs. Moon had
kept Il number of boar ders, but being
unable to do the work, she had sent
them all away except man named
Stewart, who was engaged as a trainer
at the fair grounds. When Mr.. Moon
left home on the morning of the 9th,
his wife and child were still at the
breakfast table with Stewart He did
not return until about 7 o'clock that
evening, and then it was to find the
blinds still closed and no signs of life
about the place. Al once suspecting
that all was not right, he rushed to the
house. He was met at the door by his
little daughter, who still showed the
effects of some drug under whose ill.,
fluencc she had been placed. She was
barely able 10 gasp, Papa" Moon
pushed on and in the bedroom oc-
cupied by Stewart he met a nest hor-
rible sight. On the bed lay the dead
body of $ stewart and across it lay the
body of his wife entirely nude. In
vestigation proved that she had been
drugged and outraged and that the eff
rects of the drug, whatever it was, had
not yet worn off Around the room
were the proofs OF n horrible struggle.
Mrs. Moons clothing lay about torn to
shreds, her haIr was dIsheveled,
and the evidence went to prove that
she had made a desperate battle fer
her honor. Alta late hour that night
physicians succeeded in restoring her
10 consciousness and she will recover
The child is not seriously injured.
The assault must have been thorough
" premeditated, and it must have taken
place almost immediately after the de-
'parture of the husband, as the neigh
bors say that about : o'clock Stewart
came out of doors, glanced cautiously