Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-26
BECAUSE OF A GIRL
ONE BOY IN JAIL, ANOTHER uN.
DER BOND, ONE STABBED AND
ANOTHER BADLY eAsHEp
Vicious Little set-to on Corner Of Cen.
ter Avenue and Ash Streets Last Ev.
enins About 1880 O'clock NAV Have
Serious Results.

All for the love of one girl one
young, man is in JAIL another out under
$500 bonds, one lies at home with q
deep and possibly serious stab in the
shoulder, another is confined to .his
nome With cash in the back near the
waist line and another is explaininr To
mis- friends that he fired his revolver
into the air just to stop the fight In
Whlch ne and his companions were en-
sagea. Inc trouble occurred in the
vicinity of the corner of Ash street and
Center avenue last night about 10. 40
O'Clock.
AS near as the facts in the case can
De learned Arthur Fisher several
evenings ago walked to church
or part way with a certain girl
who sat with him for a while and later
left her coat in the seat beside him.
When 1t came time to go home she
company her and when Larson went
for the girls coat some words passed
between him and Fisher. Last night
Larson, accompanied by girl, Ernest
Ackerson with another girl came
down town to an ice cream
parlor and We're followed by
Fisher and Henry Johnson. From
there the young men took the girls
home and it is said that they were
At the home Of Anton Elliott he joined
Ackerson and Larson and after
leaving the girls at their homes the
three boys started back down town
and at the corner mentioned met Fish
er and Johnson. Words quickly led to
blows and 1t is evident that one or
more knives were used.
The set-to lasted but three or four
minutes and was stopped by a shot
which did no damage and was fired, 1t
Is claimed, by Ernest Ackerson. Ell
lott, Larson and Ackerson ran into a
neighboring house and DIR. A. T.. Sheafe
was called and dressed the wounds re-
ceived by Elliott and Larson.
Elliott received stab back of and
below the left shoulder In the fleshy
part of the muscle. The stab is about
two and one-half inches deep and
about one inch broad. Larson received
a shallow cash on the left side near
the waist line about three inches in
length. Fisher has a small cut between
the thumb and the first finger on the
right hand and Johnson has a small
cut on the second finger Of the left
hand.
Informations were at once filed
against Fisher and Johnson and they
were arrested and brought to the city
jail. They We're bound over this MORN
ing in police court to await their hear
ing set for Wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock. The bond was fixed at 5000.
Johnson was able to supply a bond and
was released while Fisher went to jail.
B. w. Scott and j. r. Jaques are the
attorneys for the defendants. The
charge is assault with intent to COM
nit great bodily injury.
Boys Sentenced.
Earl Strand and Eddie Redmond,two
of the boys charged with robbing the
pile driver car recently in the Burling-
ton yards, were this morning charged
with petit larceny and sentenced to
thirty days. The sentence was sus-
pended during good behavior. Lee
Eyre, another of the quartet is still in
the county Jail and it is possible that
the original charge Of breaking and en-
tering will be changed in his case, as
in that OF the other two but because
of his age, it is stated that there will
be no suspension Of the sentence.
Lizzie Reynolds and Grace Gardner
residents of the row, engaged in a
fight Saturday afternoon and this
morning were given three days on
charges of disturbing the peace, by
Judge e. G. Moon in police court
Jack Murphy on charge Of drunk
enness was sent to Jail for fifteen days
and Ed Bressler, George Watson and
Frank Smith, were each given three
days on similar charges.
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