Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-11
FATHER and SON
JOIN N ASSAULT
w. L. Slaves and Son Earl Cut
and Pound Up a Newspaper
Solicitor
VI. A. FISHER THE VICTIM
Employe of the Des Moines Register
and Leader Has Words With His AS
saiIants and Receives a Knife Blade
In the Back-staves Claims Assault
Was Provoked-Fisher's Story.

AS a result of quarrel resulting from
a disagreement over a subscription to
the Register and Leader of Des Moines,
between Nj. A. Fisher, solicitor-collec-
tor for that paper. and w. l.. Slaves
Fished was badly cut with knife said
to have been in the hards Of w. l..
Slaves. Both Slaves and his son were
arrested charged with assault with in
tent to commit murder. Their arrest
followed a meeting with Fisher, which
resulted in the latter receiving severe,
altho not necessarily dangerous
wounds from a knife and Ratchet car
ried by the Slaves. While badly hurt
Fisher will, without doubt, recover, I'M
| less unlocked for complications should
set in.
| The more serious trouble is the result
of an old trouble. which eliminated this
morning at about 10 O'Clock. Fisher
was passing down Bromley street and
| says that both the father and son were
working on house. When they saw
him pass the elder spoke to his son and
| applied vile name to INN in connec-
ton with the remark that he was pass
! ing. He further says TIE father came
out to the fence, followed by the son,
and wanted to know what he was doing
| in that section OF the city. Fisher
states that he replied that he wanted
nothing of them but To be let alone.
! Other conversation ensued. which be-
came heated and lasted but a short
| time. This is all Fisher remembers
until he came to his senaes some time
later. He also states that when the two
men approacher him. the elder carried
d knife and the son had Il Ratchet in
| his hand. The injured mans wounds
consist of cut about four inches deep
and an inch long, evidently made with a
knife on the outer edge of the left
shoulder blade. A severe confusion on
| the back of the head, evidently the re-
suit of a blow from the Ratchet, and an
abrasion on the left cheek bone, which
| looks as tho he had been struck with a
brick or rock. Another wound over the
| left eye looks as tho IT were the mark
of blow of fist. The wounded and
bleeding man was picked up by NIL.
l.. Pitcher. who was passing in his
buggy, and taken to his boarding house
at $40 South First street, where he was
attended by physician. He Will be
| taken to his home in Des Moines to-
night, If he Is able to be moved.
Slaves Assault Was Provoked.
| Slaves was seen al the Jail this after
ternoon. He claims the assault was
provoked. and that Fisher had been
calling him names for some time, or
since the trouble they had about two
months ago. Slaves said that when he
and his little son were at work paint
| ing the house of Mrs. Machold al SIC
| Bromley street. Fisher came down the
street and called him vile name. He
| then alleges that Fisher took off his
coat and vest which he threw on the
sidewalk, and dared both to approach.
him. He then threw piece of brick at
them, so Slaves claims, whereupon
Earl, the son, threw something at
| Fisher Slaves left his work and went
| to where Fisher was standing. He had
| in his hand penknife that he had been
using in cutting out some dry hairs
of his paint brush. on which the paint
had set. When they clinched Slaves
thinks that he might have cut Fisher
laltho he doesn't say that he did. He
says that if he did 1t was purely an
accident. He says that he knows his
son hit Fisher, but with what he did
not know.
Outgrowth Of Old Trouble.
The cutting of today dates back to
some trouble about two months ago.
when Fisher visited the Slaves home
to collect a subscription bill Slaves
had previously forbidden the carrier
boy 20 leave Register and Leader at
his home, claiming he had not sub
scribed for it. The carrier boy got an
officer TO accompany him to the home
to deliver his paper. and when Fisher
went to collect the bill the men nearly
came to blows.
Both Slaves are Arrested.
w. l.. Slaves, the father, was ar
rested by Marshal Nicholson in the of
flee OF Justice 3. l.. Burritt, where 1t
1t said he had gone for the purpose of
| swearing out an information charging
Fisher with assault and battery. While
in the act Of doing .this, he was ar
rested and confined to the county Jail.
The son, Earl, who is a young man of
% or % years of age, was picked up by
Officer Hurd, on the corner of First
avenue and Main street this afternoon.
Assistant City Clerk Longnecker, who
is roommate of Fisher swore on. the
information this afternoon charging
both father and sou with assault with
intent to commit murder. No date has
been set for their hearing.
ASPHALT RELAID.