Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14
Killed WITH A KNIFE
William Hiekinson, Jr., Of Cedar
Rapids, Murdered on the
Streets.
Two Men Arrested on Suspicion
Of Having Committed the
Crime.
Believed to Have Been the
Outcome Of q Drunken
Quarrel.

dead" We're the first and startling words Fl
10 greet William Higginson, ST., as he
crossed the threshold of the police sta
tion door Saturday night at III: o'clock.
The tragedy UP to the present time +
is clothed in much mystery, which the
police are slowly unraveling. William
Jr., a young man 81 years of
age, living at 724 Seventeenth avenue,
and an employe at the packing house,
was stabbed to his death shortly after 10
O'clock Saturday night near the corner
of Second street and Eleventh avenue.
The jugular vein was severed and hel
died in q very few minutes. Two men,,
George q. Peetz, living at 904 Mounti
Vernon avenue. and Charley Johnson, /
living at LOG Tenth avenue, and team I
ister for NJ. l.. Miner & Co., have both |
been arrested on sus picion and are heldI
at the police station awaiting further I
developments. Both men were arrested
at their homes shortly before midnight. |
So far as can be ascertained up to
the present time none saw the fatal
blow struck except those who We're in
the crowd. a number of rather con-
aicting reports are in circulation. The
first trace secured of the murdered man
was in the saloon of Joseph Wayrin, at
\ the corner of Second street and Eleventh
avenue, shortly before 10 o'clock. Some
i, an in the saloon at the time said that
q couple of men in a crowd We're quar-
liielings and from later developme ntss it is
| supposed that one of these men was
| Figginson. and the other man his MUIR
Il II
struck and that one or both the men
fell. Immediately following this sor1le-
thing was said about going outdoors
and having 1t out.
just what happened after this does
rot seem exactly clear. 1t seems, how.
ever. that some woman sent a boy to
hunt up a policeman and when he re-
i turned with the officer large crowd
was gathered about Higginson, who was
dead. death evidently having ensued in
a very, few moments. The remains We're
lpicked up and carried to the city
morgue. Coroner G. n. Ranck, County
attorney Clemans and Marshal Koz-
llovsky We're at once notified. 1t was
l;soon ascertained that Peetz and John
son had bean with Higginson and off,
allcers We're Immediately sent to their
a homes and they We're placed under arr
4 rets. The remains We're removed to the
q morgile. whore they will remain for the
present. An inquest will be held. but
no time has yet been fixed. altho 1t
probably will be some time today.
There was. just the one wound on aig-
ginson. but the knife was driven with a
STEADY hand to fatal spot. The cut is
: about an inch and a half wide. and en-
& tiers the left side of the neck 1t reached
the jlgular vein and severed it COM
s pletely.
The next known about the affair is ti1s,
8 testimony given by an aged Bohemian
q lady living in that. vicinity She saw
FIVE men on Eleventh avenue a short
distance from Second street They
I were quarreling and she stopped and
: watched them. Presently she heard one
of the men say: Here. hold my. coat
s. a short time after that she saw one man
staggering backward toward the corner
4llcf Eleventh avenue and Second street
failing about twenty feet from the cor
1.er of the saloon and between the build
ing and the sidewalk. At the same time
:, she heard him say: Get doctor
I quick! am bleeding to DEATH. At this
cne man started on a dead run toward
Third street Another man followed il
s pursuit. Near the corner OF Third stree
:. tile man following seized the other by
), the coat tail. but he wrenchad himself
! loose and escaped. The man who mac
. been pursuing the other turned abou
and returned to the place where the
J. man was lying in the snow. The tflre,
men kneeled down over him a. second OF
two, and then rising hurried away a.
rapidly as possible two going in on
: direction and the third man in another
h: The more the police investigated tn
! lrlatter the more conflicting became TIL
z stories relative to the trouble leading vi
20 the murder. Until the matter can b
n carefully sifred down. there can b
s nothing given as definite.
a 1t developed late Saturday night tina
. Higginson had been having trouble wifi
!. some unknown man for some days. an
n it was riniored there was girl some
where in the case. AT a late hour Fri
u day night Higginson and some man, i'm
!. known at the present time, had som
trouble on First avenue, near the bowl
ing alley, and Higginson received
" black eye.
h Early Saturday evening Higginso
d and couple of fellows were in Sinde
Is Hairs saloon, and 1t seems now that
ID ~ et5 ttt-tc tllti d Q0tAIACls9 cIlSQcQ
lr some blows We're struck. Mr. Sindela
II Irsfused to sell them liquor, because h
IS thought they had already had enough
l. At Wavrin's saloon they stopped but
le few minutes and from what can be as
l. lcertanied they drank only one or tw
glasses of beer there. No quarrel er
sued there as was reported at frs
There were only two men with Higgir
son at Wavrin's saloon, and Johnso
4 and Peetz admit to being these mel
ne After they left the saloon, however, an
Mt started toward Third street, the
rn stopped and were talking, when tw
er other men, who had not been In the 81
he loon, walked up. One man is said
to have had on a long ulster overcoat
in was after they arrived that a QUAR-
go ensued. Both johnson and Peetz adm
IN tt ere was quarrel, but both say the
MT did not strike Higginson. Both decla
they did not know the two men vi
came up and started the quarrel.
). When the police visited the Johnse
Z, Z, nome they found a pocket knife lyir
- on the sink. II had recently bet
J. washed and had some blood on
johnson claimed, however, that ne his
: cut Oft chickens head with 1t DUH,
~ the afternoon, which accounted for Il
. blood He states that he saw Pee
strike a blow. but he could not say wi
which hand, and is Of the opinion III,