Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-18
FAUST B|)BS Up AGAIN
Brings Suit Against Seven Diff
ferent Defendants Wants
$4,000 From Each
CLAIMS LIFE IS aL'eHTEo
LIFE IS BL'eHTED
Former Marshall County Farmer Digs
Up His Troubles Again and Adds
Further Tales Of Woe-TelIs Story of
How Defendants Threatened to Shoot
and Hang Him in Court House Yard.

j. r. Faust the former Marshall
4 county farmer, whose tales of misery
and persecution would make theme
worthy of Deadwood Dick, with the
romance left out, has again bobbed up
and, thru his attorney, again filed dam
age suits, this time for the October
term of the district court. He only asks
$35O,OO0 for blighted life, $4,000 from
each of seven defendants, the Chicago
| & Northwestern Railway Company,
Emmett d. Waters and j. e. Riley,
the Northwestern local counsel; e. T..
Binford of Kenmare, N. D.; eX-Sheriff
w. d. Mills and City Assessor William
B. Elliott.
/ Faust tells again a portion of his old
story, but few chapters have been
added. His life, which he claims has
been wholly blighted. is carried into
history of recent date, when he was
1 confined in the county Jail at Carroll
because of his failure to furnish bonds
asked by his brother, whose life he is
alleged to have threatened.
| Faust relates his former troubles
here, at a time when he was living on
the old o. L. Binford farm, south of the
city, and was prosperous farmer, the
head Of a happy family, etc. He refers
! to the Judgment that he secured from
l Doll
| the Story county courts, and to the
burning of his barn, including its con-
tents, composed Of grain, livestock,
farm machinery, etc., on Sept. s. 1870.
He alleges how the defendants in this
action tried to accuse him of setting
the fire and, while in an upper room OF
| the court house, with the doors locked,
threatened him and tried to compel him
to confess to setting the fire. He claims
one threatened to throw him out of an
upper story window Of the court house;
another went to procure rope and
| that the tree, from which he was to
suspend at the bottom of slip moose,
was pointed out to him as being on the
public square.
| Because Of his terrible strain Faust
claims his mind became deranged ana
unbalanced, to such an extent that he
was unable to testify in his own be-
half at the trial that followed. as the
result Of which he was indicted for the
crime of arson, arrested and lmprls-
oned in the penitentiary at TT. Madl-
son. While imprisoned he claims the
defendants broke into his house, stole
his private papers and documents OF an
| discriminating character that tended TO
| show the plaintiffs connection with the
burning Of his barn.
The kidnapping Story.
| The kidnapping story is also revived.
| Faust claims that he was released from
the penitentiary OH June 4, 1900, and
before he was able to get out of town
4 on the first train the defendants kid
mapped him and spirited him out of the
I state, where he was forced to be con-
fined in various buildings in the states
Of Illinois and Ohio. He finally escaped
from an asylum at Toledo. O., on Aug.
| q, 1901, and at once returned to his
home in this county. When he arrived
he found that his brother Solomon
Faust, had been guilty OF misconduct in
the handling of certain property, d
Ittat in an attempt to effect a setI.e-
1 ment he was committed TO Jail on June
| 6, 1902, at Carroll, the arrest having
been made without warrant. He was
then raken before the commissioners of
insanity and discharged on Aug. IA,
1902. and was later arrested before he
could leave for home and locked up
again, until he was discharged on Sept.
is, 1902.
L. What the Damages Are For.
r ,l, s,,,x, %S,,3 f1,av II
MALICIOUS and deceitful conduct on the
part of the defendants he lost the value
of his property that was burned, to the
amount of $4,000; and the value of the
farm from September, 1897, to Novem-
Der, 1901, which was $4,000. He has
suffered great mental anguish. he says,
and his health has been impaired. He
wants as damages from each of the
seven defendants $4,000.
! Faust enumerates in his petitions the
individuals who We're guilty of perform
| ing the different acts Of violence. He
claims Mr.. Waters is the one who
| threatened to shoot him in the court
house, and that Detective Riley is the
enc who was going to throw him out of
the court house window. Waters and
Riley both, according to his story, kid
mapped him from Lee county. and Wa
| tiers. Mills, r. r. and T. Binford swore
falsely against him.
Two Other Gases.
| Faust is also plaintiff in two other
cases, the actions being identical to
those dismissed without prejudice at
the last term of court Mrs Abbie f..
Binford and Ernest r. Binford are de-
PENDANTS in one and the Marshalltown
State Bank in another.
Another Action for Divorce.
Another action for divorce was filed
late Friday afternoon. Lester l.. Sweet
| is the plaintiff and Mabel Sweet the
defendant. The couple was married in
this city on July is, 1900, and lived to-
gether until March Is, 1902. when it is
alleged by the plaintiff, the defendant
was guilty of adultery. One d. Wade
| is named as cores Yondent. The plain
| tiff asks the custody of his minor son,
Frank Edward Smith.
|
TOO MANY HODGES.
colored Member Of Gidcon's Minstrel
Company FORCES Name to Receipt for
Ticket at the Union Station and