Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-02
Former Resident of County
Who Had so Much Trouble
Shot at Carroll
HOME OF BROTHER
Seen by Nephew of the Latter, VINO
Fires Shot, Ending the Life of the
Housebreaker Death OF Faust
Brings End to the ss5o,ooo Damage
Suits Now Pending in This County.

James r. Fausts troubles are at an
end, likewise the damage SUITS IN .he
sum of $350,000, now pending In TINS
county against the Northwestern rail-
way and others, in which Faust was
the plaintiff. Faust was shot to death
at Carroll late Monday afternoon by
Charles Crone, nephew of his brother,
Charles Faust, with whom Faust has
had more or less trouble for several
months.
The story from Carroll, regarding the
shooting. is meager in details, and is
simply to the effect that Faust was
killed while entering an upper story
window at the Charles Faust home.
He had previously, it is asserted,
threatened to kill his brothers famliy,
and Charles Crone shot with the evil
dent intention of saving his uncle and
the members of his household.
Fausts troubles in this county, whlch
have covered almost the entire period
since September, 1897. are quite We'll
known. He first came before the public
when he brought suit against the
Northwestern railway for damages for
being elected from train. He won
the case and obtained a judgment. On
the 3rd of September, 1897, when Faust
was living south of this city on the
o. L. Binford farm, his barn and con-
tents were destroyed by fire. Faust
claimed to be away from home at the
time, and accused agents of the North
western of setting the fire. He was
arrested himself for arson, and was
given q penitentiary sentence at FIT.
Madison. Upon his release from the
prison he was incarcerated in an IN
sane asylum for some time, and upon
returning to this county at once began
suits against the Northwestern, EN-
met d. Waters and J. j. Riley. de-
tectives in the company's employ; I.
Binford, the company's local attorney;
ex-Sheriff w D. Mills, Assessor w. B.
Elliott and E. +. Binford. The case
was continued from term to term and
when called at the August term Faust
failed to appear and the cases We're
dismissed. In the October term he be-
gan another action against the same
defendants, in which damages aggre-
eating S3ou,uUV are aShSu. lueie iI Z
cases also pending against the Mar
shalltown State Bank and Abbie F.,
Binford and f. f. Biaford, which will
also be dismissed.
Faust's trouble with his brother lat
Carroll is matter of quite recent his
tory. Upon his return to this part OF
the country from Toledo. O., where
Faust claimed he had been wrongfuiiy
detained in an insane asylum, after
having been Kidnapped and placed there
by agents of the railway company, he
went to Carroll and at once began to
become abusive. The result was that
his brother Charles had him arrested
and placed under bonds to keep the
peace, and Faust was in the Carroll
county jail at the time his case was
called here at the August term.
Faust has undoubtedly been of UNI
sound mind for years, altho his friends
have contended right along that he was
not. According to his story, he has
been the most wrongfully prosecuted
man in the world, but to the majority of
people his wrongs have been considered
as wholly imaginary.