Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-07

painful and what might have been a
serious accident few days ago. Mr..
Shull was trying to place halter on
young and viscious horse, when il
wheeled and kicked, striking Mr.. Shull
just above the left eye with one of its
hoofs, causing wound about two in
ches in length, which extended to the
bone and lacerated the parts so that
the flesh hung down over the eye.
State Auditor Mccarthy Saturday
turned into the state treasury the
largest check he has made out since he
assumed the duties of the office. 1t
was for $40, 500. so, and was the fees
earned during the month Of February.
The taxes paid into the treasury by
the insurance companies up to Satur-
day amounts to 800, 243S1 and there
are yet several companies to pay up.
This will bring the total up to about
$l15, 600 by April l.. The fees earned
by the department during February
of last year were $14,7
Sefert Larson mysteriously disap-
peared from his his home in TT. Dodge
recently. A warrant was out for his
arrest on the charge of rape upon the
den disappearance on the part of Lar
son renews the sensation that has sur
rounded him for the past two months,
and proves the guilt of the charge.
The person whom he is charged with
raping is 15-year old girl of a woman
who herself does not bear the best of
characters, and who has persisted in
hanging around the Larson home.
After serving three years in the Ana
mosa penitentiary for the crime of
murder, Charles Lee, who was recently
granted new trial, was acquitted
after two hours deliberation by the
jury at Dubuque. Judge O'Donnell
charged that if Lee was engaged in
robbery resulting in murder he was
guilty of murder in the second degree.
The verdict was a surprise. Lee is
also under indictments for burglary
and robbery connected with the same
crime, and the question whether he
can be tried for these will be argued
A bold robbery took place one mile
north of Tabor last week A man and
woman, driving span of gray horses
hitched to a top buggy, stopped at the
farm house of James Yates, claiming to
be relatives of Myron Munsinger, liv-
ing near by. No one was at the house
drew a revolver and ordered her to pre-
pare dinner. She did So After they
had eaten, the man gave his companion
the revolver and told her to keep guard
over Mrs. Yates. He then went to
Munsinger's house and ransacked it
from cellar to garnet. Munsinger is a
stock buyer and is at present In Chi
cago with stock. The amount taken is
unknown, but he is supposed to have
secvred considerable money. The man
and woman then drove off east.
Council Bluffs furnished a bloody
sequel to the Griswold bank robbery.
At 6 o'clock Monday evening, Deputy
Sheriffs O'Brien and Hooker found the
burglars in the Kiel hotel and arrested
two of them, not recognizing third
who was there. They started to the
jail near by, but in front of the court
house one of the burglars jumped be-
hind a tree and shot O'Brien, infiicting
a probably fatal wound in the abdo-
men. A running fire followed, in
which one of the burglars, who gave
the name of John Riley, was danger
ously wounded in the groin, and sew
eral others more or less hurt. Motor
man Stallard, several blocks away, was
hit on the forehead by a spent ball and
knocked senseless, but not seriously
injured. One or two other burglars
Width, alias Wilson, was captured and
one escaped. They dropped several
packages of nickels, and kit of burg.
lars tools was found in the hotel, in.
Guiding two sticks of giant powder
fuse and dynamite caps, postage stamps
and small coins. The burglars are
well dressed, fne-looking mer
and evidently professionals. Deputy
Sheriff Nick O'Brien, who was shot
by one of the robbers, is in q
precarious condition. Surgeons Civ.
little hope to his friends of recovery
He vomited all night and is now in q
ccmatose condition, with symptoms Of
peritonitis. The ball passed through
the lower part of his liver. O'Brier
says Riley, the escaped burglar, who
did the shooting, is known to him, and
that he is Charles O'Conner, whose
father keeps restaurant on Twelfth
between Farnham and Harvey streets
in Omaha. Officers tracked him to the
river, three miles southwest of town
and to numerous places where he haG
tried to cross on the ice, but found il
too unsafe. The trail led to a point
underneath the Union Pacific bridge
and was lost. The wounded burglar
says his name is W. j. Smith. and that
his home is in RurlinptOn He iS shot