The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-07-29
Son Of Attorney Sterling
Has Escaped
FOR CRIME
Com mitted in Denver--Sho a
Rival in Love--Father and
Son Returning to
Canton.

William II. Sterling, the son of At
torney James Sterling, of Canton, who
was charged with shooting Sergeant
Edwa ard Sturgeon of the Fourteenth in
fantry, on Friday. June 27, at Den5e
Colo. has been released by the auth
critics of that city and turned over to
his father who made trip to Denver
for the purpose of settling the matter
The criminal charge against the
young man has been abandoned and
james Sterl ng is now on his way
home. The cause for his release has
not been made known. Some of the dis
patches from that city state that Ster-
ling was in a men ally derangei con-
ditiOn when he committed the deed.
Attorney Braucher, who is the law
partner of Attorney Sterling, has re-
caived letter from Mr.. Sterling, which
states that the young man has been re-
leased but the grounds for this pro-
cedure are not given.
STORY OF THE CRIME.
According to the Denver dispa ches
Sterling ami Sturgeon were both p3y-
ing attention to Miss EuniCe Scott of
Denver and when en- the night of FRI
day, June 81, Sterling made his ususl
call at the home of Miss Scott, he
found his rival in the parlor.
Sterling became enraged over this
and later as he and Sturgeon left the
home of Miss Scott together, Sterling
dropped behind his rival. pulled re-
volver and shot Sturgeon. Sturgeon
was taken to the hosp.al and has
silce recovered from the wound
After the shoot ng Sterling escared
captured in Pueblo, under an assumed
on a freight train but was Afterwards
name Word was se-t to his ia her
who at once proceeded to Denver
Sterling, after his return from the
war in the Philippine Islands, Yves de-
mented and taken to several similar
iums and it is supposed that his re-
lease was obtaire1 on this & ound.
Sterling had resided at different
times in reaver and had been living in
tEat city this tine for about a year.
He was employed as a trolley conduc-
tor.
SPANISH WAR VETERAN
Sterling is about "a years of age and
served about a year in the Phil ppne
Islands with the Colorado troops Be-
fore the war he lived in Denver and
when the war began he enlisted in that
city. He did service in the is ands and
participated in about Il battles.
Whrn the soldiers returned t. San
Francisco Sterling, who had slown
81 igrs Of being deranged, was placed in
a hospit ii in that city where he remain
ed for three weeks. Through the solc-
itation Of several o. his comrades the
hospital authorities released him with
the understanding that his comrades
would care for him until he arrived in
N'itp!i' III Sh''dsO lie Was lOlIu Dy
the police authorit es in a bad condi-
tion and his father was summoned to
that city and the young man was
brought home.
He was then placed in the Massi len
hospital, but was aft rwar Is taken out
of that institu' ion ty his faith sr, who
ca 'Ihed that he had been brutally treat
ed by he hospital nurses. HH father
threatened to prosecute the authorit ss
at the hospital but the matter was
later dropped.
TO PRIVATE ASYLUM.
After being taken away from the
Massillon insthnt on Sterling was
placed in a sardtarium at Cuyahoga
Falls, and after several We els of treat
ment he was thought to have fully re-
covered. He came to Can on and
worked on the Canton-Akron railroad
between Canton and New Berlin. Lsst
fall he decided TO go to Denver and has
been in that city ever since.
The letters from his father state that
he and his son will not return for sew
eral days. as they will make a short
visit to relatives in that part of the
country. The dispatches from that
city state that the young man will be
placed In sanitarium but this is not
a tnl hxr he futA le Az