The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-30
MRS. ETZEL NOT DEAD.
A "Journal'' Reporter Visits the
ErzeI Family.
BOTH WOMEN CUT AND DISFIGURED


Suffering Greatly = The Younger
HRS. Etzei Pounded In the Breast
Warrant for the Arrest OF Policeman
Gaines.
Last evening the coroner told STATE
JOURNAL reporter that Mrs. George z.
Etzel, the woman who had been suffer
ing from wounds inflicted by Officer
Gaines, was dead. and that the inquest
would be held some time today; bulle-
tin to that effect was placed on the STATE
JOURNALS blackboard 1t appears, how
ever, that the coroner had been misin-
formed. Thomas Balm, the attorney for
the Russians, informed the coroner eff the
demise Mr.. Balm says that ex-Police
Commissioner L. T. Yount telephoned
the news to him.
AT any rate, Mrs. George P. Etzel is
not dead, and it is not probable that she
will die as a result Of her injuries.
A JOURNAL reporter visited the home
of the Etzels today to see about the con-
dition of affairs. Arriving at the Rus
sian settlement, which is about one hun
dred yards northeast of the junction de-
pot in North Topeka, the reporter found
Mrs. Marguerite Etzel. the elder of the
Etzel women, standing in the front yard.
She had been in the melee also, and was
a pitiable sight. The cuts and bruises
on her face had not yet healed. Mrs.
Etzel doesn't speak word of English,
so the reporter had to find an interpreter.
A neighbor woman came out of the
house just then and gave the necessary
information. In the yard we're five chill
dren, two of whom were small babies.
The house is one story small structure;
everything about the place shows that
although there is poverty there, there IS
also thrift.
While the reporter was talking to the
neighbor the aged Etzel woman would
join in with her foreign tongue.
''She is not going to die said the
neighbor, in speaking of Mrs George r.
EtzePs condition. "When heard that
over to see her. OF course she is very
sore where the officer hit her, add it may
take years for her to get over it
While she was talking Mrs. George +.
Etzel herself came slowly to the door of
the little house and looked out
How are you feeling today?" asked
the reporter.
She replied not a word, but put her
hands on her breast and face and as
Sum6Q DdlQGO 0XDF0SSlOus OuS Was
hurt in the bosom in the fight.
She uttered something in German. The
neighbor said, 'She says that she suffers
a great deal of pain"
1t appears that these people are not
Russians at all, but Germans. They
emigrated to Russia years age
from Germany. Afterward they
came to this country. Some of the
younger ones were born in Russia. and
J they all speak the German language
They attend the German Catholic
! church of this city.
This accounts for the great interest
| that the German people OF the city have
! taken in their case.
The neighbors near little Russia,
| as the settlement is called. say that the
people are law abiding and very indus
| trious
Gaines Arrested For Murder.
/ Policeman Fl. E. Gaines was arrested
| about o'clock last evening by Sheriff
| D. n. Burdge on a charge of murder
John Hewitt, one of the members oil
the coroner's jury, was not satisfied with
the verdict which was rendered by the
/ County Attorney Stafford and swore out
/ complaint against Gaines, charging
him with numbering Albert Cruger.
After the warrant for the arrest OF
Gaines had been issued, Mrs. Cruger
called on the county attorney and want
! ed to make complaint against Gaines
but she was informed that warrant for
his arrest had already been issued.
Gaines was arrested in North Topeka
and was taken before Justice Furry, who
fixed his bond at $4,000, the charge
against him being murder in the second
degree.
Gaines was not locked up in Jail, as he
was able to furnish the required bond, R
B. Welch, ]. B Larimer, l. Biackman, A
/ H. Vance and W. D. Disbrow being his
bondsmen. Today Gaines is attending tc
! his duties as policeman as usual.