Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-25
ROBS COMPANION
George Cook Assaulted by Henry
Van De Vale, Who
Takes SIS.
OFFENDER MAKES HIS ESCAPE
Victim Thrown From Buggy and
Left Lying at the Side
of the Road.

Henry an DE VALE. VINO assaulted
and robbed George Cook south of Mo
| line Saturday afternoon, was seen in
| Davenport last night and escaped on
| lv after close brush with the police.
! Officer Mullane, of the Davenport
force, noticed the man in a cigar store
near Rock Island and Third streets.
| He went in to make the arrest, but
| De Walle saw him coming and escap-
ed through the rear door into the al
! lev and out into Rock Island street.
! the officer in hot pursuit. De VALE
managed to lose the pursuer BY dodg-
! ing about alleys. 1t is thought he has
| left for some other city, as a persis-
! tent search later failed to reveal his
whereabouts. - fitt
A Brutal Crime.
| Saturday morning Cook, who is
well-known carpenter living at 2319h
! Fourth avenue, started out in one of
! Cradles livery rigs for Rock river with
! Van De Walle to go fishing. Along
! late in the afternoon the latter re-
! turned to town alone with the horse
and buggy. lie stopped at numerous
saloons and flashed roll in each. At
one place he gave friend. Victor Van
! Acht, 81 and told him that he had
| beaten "a man at Rock river and taken
$3.50 from him.
shortly after an ambulance call
was received at the Moline station
from the Browning farm, east of
Prospect park. Cook had been found
at the roadside badly beaten. where
he had been thrown from the buggy
by De VALE. the latter driving on
with the rig. He said he had been
robbed of $50 by the man. As soon as
the return to town had been made
the officers set out to look for the
guilty party. but he had escaped in
the meantime. Cook is not seriously
injured.
! Emma Taylor, who was arrested
Sunday morning by Chief Miller. was
brought before Police Magistrate
johnson this morning ana fined 500
and costs, the charge preferred
against her being d'sorderly conduct,
the prosecution being conducted by
the state. She was unable to pay and
was sent to the county Jail. She was
brought in for street walking.
Fatality on Bridge.
About $3.50 Saturday evening
SWitchmau. in alighting from a string
of ears at the north end of The Rock
Island bridge, stumbled across the
PROSTATE body of "a man. He procur-
ed a light and found that that there
was not only one, but two bodies. one
dismembered and evidently dead for
some time and the other showing
signs of life. The latter was convey
ed in the city ambulance 10 st. Luke'S
hospital, where consciousness was re
covered during the night.
Both had evidently been struck by
the same train, presumably as they
were trying TO board il at the bridge.
ne right arm of the dead man had
been torn completely of and was
found some distance from the trunk.
while one leg hung only by few
threads.
On recovering consciousness the in
iured man gave his name as James
War,lley and his home East st. Louis
He stated that the others name was
Mullanc, also of East 81. Louis The
relatives of the latter were notified
and sent for the body. 1t was ship
ped there last night. Wardley * un-
able to give any connected narrative
OF the events Whlcn lcu up To the aC-
cident. He admits that they had both
been drinking. but remembers moth
ing of trying to get onto the train.
Both the men had been working for
Flick & Johnson on the Milwaukee
cutoff.
Hansmann May Recover.
Anton Hansmann. who was thrown
to the pavement from his rig on Sew
cnth avenue Saturday afternoon. as
told i'm The Argus, was more severely
injured than was at first supposed.
He is now. however. doing very well
and is reported in fair way to re-
cover. Considering the nature of the
injury. which was Il bad fracture of
the skull, and the radical operation
which was necessarily resorted to tn
save life for even short time, his
condition is very satisfactory. The
fracture of the skull was not found
until he had been taken to his home.
The doctors had him removed to the