Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-01
4 DASTARDLY ACT.
Brutal Assault Upon An Unarmed
Farmer.
DR.. JONES' MEDICINE COMPANY
Practices The Massage Movement Upon
Noble Rohr-Troupe to be Arrest
eel i'm Logan~port.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Plymouth is having something more
than its fair share of excitement
today.
What seems to have been a most
das;ardly and ineXcusable outrage was
perpetrated just outside oar municipal
border line today. The medicine sell
ing combination of speciality ''artists'
who travel under the name OF the
Doctor Jones Medicine Co. and who
"a week ago concluded a very profitable
engagement at the Centennial opera
house, now make another ferocious ja1
at the public eye by means Of huial
and cowardly assault upon young
farmer.
After leaving Plymouth, the troupe
took its cent show over to Bourbon
But the BourbOnites didn't appreciate
the motley array of talent, some way or
other. They didn't lill the hall, and 1t
is reported that there was on lnen-
thusiastic young critic there " . was
rude enough to say that DIR. Jones
show was "On the pig which, trans
lated into classic newspaper English,
meant that 1t was not of so high an
artistic grade as Edwin Booths "Ilam-
let used to be.
At any rate, the Doctor became dis
gusted with the Bourbon Feople (who
appeared TO know good thing when
they don't see il aud concluded To 90 o
Logansport.
This morning the company drove
through to Plymouth in big sleigh to
take the Nandalia To LOganSpOrt. They
numbered seven people, including two
women, and they possessed an abnormal
fund Of animal spirits. The were h-"-
ing real pleasant and lively time when
they came TO the Riddle farm, about
half way to Plymouth on the Leesburg
road. Here Nol lie Rohr, young farm
er, was assis ing a neighbOr IN loading
some straw. The merry party iii tie
sled amused themselves by applying to
him choice and blue tinted assortment
OF epi'hets and blllingsgate generally.
He demurred to the unparliamentary
tenor of their remarks. In fact, he
seems tn have thought their tenor Was
rather base.
Then the artifcially stimulated ire OF
the factors" rose and they climbed out
of the sled and started after the young
man. They shot at him twice, and then
Noble took small hand in the game
himself by knocking one assailant down
with pitchf0rk. But six of the gang
were upon him and he stood no sin wv.
Rohr turned and ran into Riddles
house to hide. The crowd took after
him, broke down doors and smashed
things generally in finding him. The
other farmer stayed outside looking
carefully but very quietly down the
gilstenlng barrel of revolver.
In the house The crowd soon found
Rohr, and he knocked another man
over with stove poker. But he was
again fighting against odds, and he ran
out to the road \ man was driving
past in sled, and Rohr jumped in
telling him to drive OF rapidly. But
the man aidn't understand, so he
stopped TO see what il all meant. The
crowd pulled INN out of the sled and
assaulted HIM again, with sticks OF
wood an other weapons.
All this time, there was one membei
OF the troupe who did not take part in
the aifray, but tried vainly to urge the
others to stop their rloting. They did
not heed hIm, however, until they had
succeeded in making Mobiles lace re
semble pound and a half of raw
beefs eak. Then this one human among
pack of brutes led the boy back into
the house. The crowd piled back into
the sleigh and drove TO Plymouth
They were coming pretty rapidly wher
they crossed the bridge and Marsha
Myers hove in view in season tt
arrest the driver for dlsregarding tn,
big sign on the bridge. The compan!
was "rattled" and they scattered.
Meantime, young Rohr had beer
driven to this city and taken to th'
Office of DIR. Viets, who dress d his III
juries.
Aflidavlts were filed before Justic,
Reeves and he issued two warrants 70
"John Doe and "Richard Roe" TAX
ing these, Marshal Myers caught TIN
Vandalia train, and couple or thre
blocks from the station found tn
party, stopped the train and was IN
loading the whole party, when they de
manded his warrants. He produce
them. The manager said: "Ail right