The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-10-27
CHAPTER OF
GRIMES IN TOWN
AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, MUIR.
DER, ROBBERY, ETC.
HELD UP BY DUsKY DANES.
Two Travelling Men Claim They Were
Relieved of Money While Filrt-
ing With colored Street
Walkers Saturday Night.

Saturday Night.
Sensations followed one another
hick and fast in Oskaloosa between
Saturday night and Monday morning.
An attempt at suicide. a murderous
assault ear Buxton, two travelling
men in disgrace with colored street
walkers, an arrest for plant thievery
and the return of an alleged dress
suit case robber made up the chapter
Ct crime, seldom surpassed in point
81 numbers in the same length Of
TIME in Oskaloosa.
Wanted to End Life.
The first sensation of the day was
the discovery of a young woman lying
at the roadside east Of town by Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Parks and Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Jones, who were driving by.
At first it was thought the girl was
dead, but an examination showed that
she still breathed. The officers were
Notified and Sheriff Valentine and
Deputy Moore went out at onc and
brought the unfortunate girl to town,
and she was cared for by DR.. Windle
at the county jail. 1t was learned
that she had been lying there from
some time during Saturday night IN
til two o'clock Sunday afternoon,
when discovered. The scene is about
$50 yards south of the main road on
a lonely cross road that leaves the
Iowa City road at the log cabin. The
girl had taken morphine with the IT.
tent of ending her life. Her name
is Minnie Tate and she says she, is
20 years old. She had been living rs
a domestic in the w. r. Lacey home,
but had quit work to go to the home
OF her sister, near Tioga. The girl
was in a delicate condition and it is
alleged her folks would not take care
of her. Despondent and discouraged
she determined to die. The name of
the father of the unborn child is
guarded by the mother, but it is said
he has skipped out and was last
heard from at Waterloo. Mesdames
Kent, Jones and S%choo1field, of the w.
G. T. u, have taken charge of the.
case and will care for the girl and find
her a home either in Davenport or
Des Moines. The girl rallied during
the night and is much better today.
Row Near Buxton.
On information by telephone Sher-
if Valentine and Deputy Moore went
to Buxton Sunday afternoon to arrest
Ed Dimmit and Ella Wallace, charged
with ~assaulting and robbing a colored,
man named Parker. 1t appears that
a gang had gathered at one of the sa-
looms north of town and inside the
Mahaska county line, and were drink
ing and carousing. The girl and Par
ker went away together and Dimmit
followed them. When away from the
crowd, Dimmit and the girl assailed
Parker and pounded him up in bad
shape, inficting a number of flesh
wounds and breaking his arm with
a club. In the melee Parker lost
about $50 which he had received from
the coal company on Saturday. A.
shot wax also fired and when Dimmit
was searched by the officers a gun
was found in his possession with one
chamber empty. The parties are all
in Jail awaiting trial.
Too Intimate With colored Girls.
]. McCole and S. S. Hess, two trav-
ing men from Chicago, met with a cir
circumstance in Oskaloosa Sunday ev-
ening about 1890 o'clock. The re.
suit was the travellers had the police
cut oVer town looking for a couple of
cslored girls who are known locally
AZ Minnie Hoff and Loa Kyle. The
charge against the girls was larceny
from the person. The case could not
be proven and the girls were dis.
charged. The women were immedi-
ately rearrested upon a charge of VA
grancy before Mayor Williams and
released upon promise, one to leave
the city and the other to keep off the
street.
The travelling men state that they
were coming east on High Avenue
from the Iowa Central station and
that they were literally held up by
the women, who stopped them. Nc
Cole says that one of the women ran
her hands down on the inside of his
vest, taking a wallet containing sixty
dollars from the inside pocket. The
girls then ran. The men had talked
with the women long enough 10 form
a pretty correct idea as to how they
looked and they were sure they could
identify them. When the girls were
arrested. however, they made no Of.
fort to deny the fact that they had
seen the men and had been with
them, but they denied having the
cash nor could any of the missing
property be found.
The women state that they were on
the opposite side Of the street from
the men ana that the men whistled
to them and stopped for them to
cross oVer. They came up with them
just west of the Burlington crossing
and at the north end of the depot,
where the trouble is said to have han.