The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-01-04
MANKATo FREE PRESS.
From Fridays Daily.
MADISON LAKE ROW.
Particulars of the DeS-
perate Fight.
rlarshaI Ide in Serious Condition
His Ear Nearly Bitten Off-Mc-
Graws Under BOndS-MOre Trouble
Is Feared-Exit Saloon License.

City Attorney Young returned last
evening from Madison Lake, where
he had been to begin prosecutions
of the men who so terribly beat Mar
shall Ide.
Further particulars of the fight are
given today. 1t appears that about
two weeks ago the marshal arrested
Pat McGraw for disturbing the peace.
The man was duly fined, but he left
the court swearing vengeance. The
marshal caused more ill-feeling when
he ordered the McGraws to close their
saloon ION Sunday, and the men are
said to have openly threatened that
they would ''do up" the officer.
The climax was reached Wednesday
evening. The McGraws, together
with a man named Baynes, who is
harmless when sober but fiend when
intoxicated, a loafer named John
Shea and a character with Happy
Jack" as his cognomen, got load of
Gibson whisky on board and pro-
ceeded to get intoaa fight. Pat Nc
Graw, firing of the entertainment in
the saloon, went out on the street and
saw Marshal Ide approaching. He
bounced upon the officer, threw him
down and was beating him into insen-
sibility, when his brother Terrence
rushed out and protected his 200
pound brother from the assaults of
the marshal, feeble old man. Ter
renee began by jumping upon the
PROSTATE body of the helpless victim,
and managed to break his breast bone
and bruise him terribly with his heavy
boots. In the melee Ide'S right ear
was bitten or torn nearly off, for when
he was taken home it was hanging by
a single thread of skin.
The noise made by the McGrawS
and the cries of the marshal attracted
the balance of the gang, who still re-
NAMED in the saloon, and they, as
drunk and crazy as the rest, stood by
and warnei The citizens not to inter-
fere in the fight. Baynes swung an
aX-handle about and swore he would
brain the first man who laid finger
on the McGraws,
Constable Stagg came upon the
scene, but he ad no sooner ap-
proachpd within arms raacb than
somebody in the crowd dealt him
fierce blow on the head and he, too,
was promptly laid out.
Some of Ithe citizens were then
called upon to interfere and restore
order, and business man named AL
Ign rushed into the group and took
charge of one of the McGraws. Other
citizens came to his aid, and the en-
tire gang was soon in the hands of
those who would see that the marshal
was not further injured.
The extent of Marshal Ide's injuries
cannot be ascertained at present. His
head is badly pounded and the attend
ing physician fears he is injured in
ternally, He was suffering intense
agony last night, and the outcome of
his beating is awaited with interest.
Warrants were last evening sworn
out for the arrest of Terrence and Pat
McGraw on the charge of assault in
the second degree. They gave bonds
of $500 each for their preliminary
hearing, the case of the former having
been set for January 4th and the lat
ter on the Sd.
John O'Shea was charged with as
sault in the third degree, and is now
serving a sentence of thirty days in
the county Jail.
Pat Baynes was arrested on charge
of assault in the third degree, and his
trial will take place January Sd. He
gave bond of 5000 for his appear
ance.
"Happy Jack" did nothing more
than call names, but he paid fine in
the Madison Lake justice shop last
evening for his knowledge of impure
English.