The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
ASSAULT ON OFFICER
Police Sergeant Crabtree
Beaten With knuCkS.
Daniel Horton, His Assailant, Has Been Placed
Under Bond Of Three thousand
Dollars.
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Durham, N. c., Dec. 27-Charged with
secretly assaulting Police Sergeant w. G.
Crabtree at late hour last night Daniel
Horton, well known young man who
holds q position as clerk on Main street,
is under a bond of $4,000 He is also
Under an additional bond of 500 for car
rying concealed weapon. The cases were
to have come up this morning but were
continued on account of the condition of
the assaulted man and will come up for
a hearing on Tuesday of next week.
The assault occurred on Main street
near midnight last night. 1t was the out
come of an old trouble between the two.
Horton has been mad with the officer for
sometime and on Christmas day they had
a fsticuff on Main street, the fight being
draw. Last night officer Crabtree was
standing on Main street when he says
that he noticed two men coming up the
street but paid no attention to them. The
next thing he knew, he says. was when
he was struck in the back of the head
with pair of knucks. The blow dazed
him and before he could recover Horton
struck two other blows on the back of
the head and one in the face. One wound
two inches long was cut and there were
other wounds and bruises.
In his own defense Mr.. Horton says
that he did not assault the officer Sc
cretly. He says that he spoke to the
officer and then struck him and that the
first blow was in the face.
While the assault was still in progress
three police officers, who We're on the
opposite side of the street, ran over and
placed Horton under arrest. He was
locked up and remained in prison some
Two hours when the mayor agreed to bail
him in the sum of three thousand dollars
for secret assault and one hundred dol
lars for carrying a concealed weapon This
bond was given soon afterwards. This
morning officer Crabtree was not able to
come to trial and at his request it was
continued until next Tuesday In the
meantime the bond of SO 100 is still in
force and Horton is at liberty.
Messrs. Frank L. Fuller, w. A. Guthrie
G. w. Watts and F. w. Clare. committee
appointed by the Chamber OF Commerce to
look into the matter of Union depot for
Durham, went down to Raleigh today to
interview Col. A. b. Andrews. The Nor
folk and Western road and the Seaboard
Air Line have agreed to do what is right
towards getting a Union station and are
willing for any kind of an agreement. II
the Southern does not act in this mat
ter then the chamber will appeal to the
Railroad Commission and ask for some
kind of an accommodation for the travel
ing public The depot here is a disgrace
and discomfort to every one having to
come in or leave the city by this route.
1t is the poorest depot on the entire
North Carolina. system, yet the Southern
has treated with absolute Indifference
all appeals for relief
There will be two terms of court dur
ing the month of January. A one week
term will convene on January and will
be for the trial of civil cases only. Later
in the month there will be a criminal
court of two weeks.