Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-10
NH|IECHAPEL CRIME
George Lynn Cut to Death by
a Jealous Rival in
Whitechapel.
Denizens OF the District Watch
the Man Die in the
Street.
Ceiored Boy Who Saw the Crime
Committed Says the Men
Fought.
cial 10 Times-Republican.

CURED in the Whitechapel district las
night Sam Rowen, a hab1tue OIL 'h
resorts there, was arrested for tn
crime. George Lynn, the victim, MAJ
been living at the house of Lizzie All
bane. three doors from the south en-
j of the brick flat on the west SIDE
PeIton avenue in whitechapel, known
az No. $685. He was a farmer originally
ten wears ago started to selling harness
oil. and of late has sold refuse for ;
/ living. He was As years of age, orlsi'
mated near Prairie City and has no PEG
! nile living except a sister, Mrs. Sidney
Jones. said to be the wife of leadins
lawyer of Denver. He came of a fine
| family.
Rowan is said to have been an ole
nance of Mrs. Kilbane. He objected &c
Lynns attentions to her. Lynn mac
rotified the people that he intended te
leave Mrs. Kilbanes this week. Mon
day he took home to her bushel OF
potatoes and two boxes of matches
which he carried in with his own hands
you're all right" said Mrs. Falda
Brewster, who was hanging out clothes
in her back yard next door, and saw
him.
We'll" he said, they can't say let
EN- starve."
He lugged in the supplies and didn't
leave until about I o'clock. Il saw him
and Rowan having a scrap" said Mrs.
Brewster, 'in the alley back of our
house. Lynn was partially drunk.
Rowan was sober. AS l passed them
Lynn said: I'll see you tomorrow at
o'clock / heard them quarreling. 1
heard Rowan say: You know you've
been hanging around her And he
swore and laid his first finger in the
palm of the other hand so, and talked
mad like"
A colored boy who saw the crime
committed told the story of the muir
Ger as follows:
This here Lynn threw Rowan down
and told him he would let him up if he
would call it square. Rowan said he
would. Lynn let him up. Then Rowan
started after Lynn again and they
grabbed each other. Rowan snatched
q knife out of Lynns pocket, vest pock
ct or inside coat pocket, l don't know
which, and stabbed him. Lynn fell
after Rowan stabbed him two or three
times. Rowan ran into the house and
washed his hands. He was going to
make his getaway. / suppose, but the
coppers We're too quick. We heard them
fussing up stairs before they came
Cob ~, ]
In the street when the fighting oc-
Cured"
The fight occurred not in the alley
back of the houses where the men had |
been seen to go early in the evening, /
luarreling, as was supposed, but in the |
main street in front of the house. There
Lynn fell on his back, and surrounded |
~ the denizens of the place breathed /
Ms last AT his head was the small I
oocketknife which did the business. He
lied easily. Mrs. kilbane asked him
row he felt. along toward the last
Pretty bad" he sighed, gasped two or
hree times and died. He had been cut
vice above the heart, once in the side,
md his face had been kicked in. He
vas covered with blood. He fell on his
Jack, about four feet from the side
walk, in the hard clods of earth in the
treet, and lay there till the coroner
anne, about two hours afterward
about him there thronged an ever
hanging crowd of colored and white
eople, not less than fifty being about
he grewsome body all of the time,
atching occasional gimpses of his
orrible, bloody face in the CLEANS of
tful light from the lamps on the am
ulance which stood by.
Nor did Rowan escape unhurt. He
as cut in the face and on the hands
He staggered up to my door," said
lrs. Brewster, again, "and asked me
,r some water. | had been cleaning
ouse and didn't have any. I told him
go next door," and he did I could
ee he had been cut. There's been a
uarrel and fight and something do
'g, he said. grimly, to me. But he
'uldn't talk plain. The blood was
roaming down his face.
1t was while he was washing himself
ext door to Mrs. Brewster's house that
was arrested and taken to the city
Ill.