The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-09-10
SLEEPY EYE (MINN.) BARBER
SHOOTS DOWN A WOMAN AND
THE CITY MARSHAL.
YIELD A CROWD BACK WITH A GUN
DESPERATE MAN Is FINALLY
WOUNDED By A STRANGER
IN A STREET FIGHT.

sleepy Eye, MILL, oepI. 1o. III q
fit of jealous rage, Charles Kimball,
barber, shot and wounded Mrs. M.
j. Toomey, held off the entire village,
seriously wounding Marshal Franz,
and was himself shot by a stranger,
who volunteered when Kimball had
the village cowed. None of the wound
ed will die.
The quarrel between Kimball and
Mrs. Toomey started in Mrs. Toomey's
boarding house early in the morning,
and continued until o'clock in the
afternoon. Kimball, who is said to
have a wife and child at Elroy, Wis,
has been boarding for two years with
Mrs. Toomey, who is living apart from
her husband. Instead Of going to his
barber shop in the morning, Kimball
remained at the boarding house and
accused Mrs. Toomey Of paying atten-
ton to other men.
At noon when the other boarders
arrived, Mrs. Toomey, by signs and
winks communicated the fact to them
that Kimball was angry. Kimball OBJ
served this interchange of signals and
peremptorily ordered all the boarders
out of the house. When he informed
them that he would kill any one who
remained there was an exodus to the
street.
Wounds Mrs. Toomey.
Kimball remained in the house with
Mrs. Toomey until late in the after
run out into the street towards a
~; ho1 fol1nrn1
revolver in hand Mrs Toomey reached
the house and barricaded herself in
bedroom. Kimball forced his way
into the room and fired two bullets at
the woman. one hitting her in the
shoulder and the other in the arm.
Kimball then grabbed the woman
and attempted to drag her across the
street to the boarding house. but was
stc3DCl by t." crowd which had gath
ere1. re pc;c 81 his revolver at the
crowd apd ''alt0d it. City Marshal
Frarz -de~c Kin rail to throw up his
hand md T;rohol1 answered with
two h'-"Hts ";h.>h vert wi1a Of the
marshal
Marshal Franz went to hardware
store for rife. Kimball became fran
tic and began shrieking at the crowd,
threatening to kill any one who came
near him. Mrs. Toomey escaped and
dashed into her house and locked the
doors.
Marshal Franz returned from the
hardware store with a rifle and point
ing it at Kimball ordered him to drop
his revolver. Kimball fired and ar
shall Franz fell to the ground. The
marshal was too weak to use his rifle
and offered it to several men who
were hiding behind some trees. No
one would take it.
Stranger Goes After Kimba!I.
After some moments a stranger,
dressed like a threshing hand, stepped
forward. took the rife and started to-
ward Kimball. who had retired to the
other side of the street.
Kimball raised his revolver, took
deliberate aim and fired. The bullet
ploughed through the strangers hat,
but the threshing hand continued for
ward without giving any evidence of
having noticed that he was shot at.
Kimball once more raised his re-
volver, but the stranger was too quick
for him and fired before Kimball could
pull the trigger.
Kimball toUpled forward, hurting his
revolver in front of him. The bullet
from the rife struck him in the front
of the head, knocking him senseless.
Physicians were hurried to the
scene and found Mrs. Toomey nearly
dead from loss of blood, but the doc
tors are confident she will recover.
When Kimball regained consciousness
he was taken to the hospital at New
Ulm, as feeling is high here, and the
officers feared there might be some
demonstration made.