Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-07
WITH KNIVES
Gang Of Wicked Men Engage
In Serious Cutting
ARRAY.
Knives and Razors Used in Sa-
loon Quarrel at Sioux
City.
A Number Of Men Badly Disfig-
ured. But None Will
Die.
Special to s-Republican.


Sioux City Jan. IA serious cutting
ARRAY occurred in a saloon here Satur-
Cay night. A gang of burglars, ex-
sconvicts, jail birds and thieves had
gathered in j. K Huffman,s place and
after drinking for some time became in
volved in a quarrel. KNIVES, razors and
bser bottles we're used and that no one
was killed outright is a wonder. it was
u gang OF men who did not value their
cwn lives and did not hesitate to take
the lives of others.
When the fighting was thru the police
ambulance conveyed Berney Brennan
end Mike Flanagan of the Brennan
gang, and Knowles, of the KNOWLES
crowd, TO Samaritan hospital, and
George Trask and Bill Bishop, friends
lcf Knowles, We're carted off in the pa
lstrol wagon to police headquarters. Sey-
leral of the Brennanltes escaped before
! the arrival of the police, and George
| casmann, Who appeared to the detec-
tives to have been very active with a
/ lcng- bladed knife, also managed to set
away.
There was one three-inch cash, cutting
c!eanly thru the right cheek, extending
downward from the eye. Another cut
1 two inches in length extended from the
left corner of his mouth thru the chin
\ sharp slash severed the biceps of his
/ isft arm. a deep stab four inches long
/ just missed the collar bone on the lief,
side. There was another deep cut or
] the loft side, above the heart, and the
tops of the knuckles OF the left hane
were clipped off.
Flanagan had one frightful cut ex
4 tendng from the middle of his foreheaf
around the left side OF his head to thu
base of his brain This cash was nin'
sli,ches in length, and the blade, in pass
ing, severed an artery above the ear an,
/ another in the back of the neck. Four
teen stitches We're required to hold tn
4 flesh together, but the blood flowed ii
4 such streams that many of the stitche
a troke out and thirty six stitches in al
were taken.
4 Knowles nose was broken. his lowe
! lip was cut in two, there was a cut es
tending backward from his right ey.
and he suffered great pain from kicks i
The stomach and onstle head.
Bishop left heck bone was given
j, smash with a beer bottle. and the in
!, Jury may give him trouble His eye
were swollen shut, and his body Dor
:, numerous bruises.
Trask' s;iaSYries consisted ~ bruise
caused s. beer botsi dow and atlsr
\ Cassnlan could not be found, and it wa
rot known whether he was hurt a al
There was a wide difference in til
!. tto1d 10
we're inclined to believe that the ro'
!, vas started by Flanagan 1t was sal
a that he Naked up to Knowles. who wa
! standing at the bar, and accused him {
i telling the police where Slim Hale
s and Roland Burke, alias Charles Burk,
,lwere hiding at tire they were badl
! Knowles contemptuously called Breil
! gang that was beneath his notice, an
then the war broke out
At 10 o'clock Brennan Flanagan an
knowles We're removed from the hospi
tai to police headquarters. The forme
4 and Knowles was released on his ow
: bond.
The police said that Brennan an
: Flanagan and their associates in TIL
esatern part of the city have given tn
: authorities great deal of trouble i
recent eyars. Brennans career in Grim
: began about the time he and Dick
Morgan and others broke into the cloth
5 ing store OF Larson & Anderson in No
vember 1894. In attempting 10 escap
: from ..Charley's Place, a cheap lodgin
house in East Fourth street. Morga
!. was shot BY Matt Franciscus and give
wound from which h died a few day
(. later For time last year Brennan an
Flanagan were not heard of, and the
may have been out of the city. A perio
q of renewed activity on their part bega
: Hast May. since which time they hay
: spent many weeks in jail