The Indianapolis journal., 1904-03-13
BROTHERS IN FIGHT AND
ONE DIES FROM A BLOW
Cyrus Hubbard, Taunted by His
Prother Otis, Yields Billiard
Cue with Fatal Effect
GEORGE CARSON'S ARREST
Otis Hubbard and Carson Wanted
Cyrus 10 Buy Drink-Fri
day Night Affair.

Enraged by the repeated taunts of his
brother. Otis Hubbard. and fearing that he
was about to make good his oft-repeated
threat to attack him. Cyrus Hubbard
struck his brother in the head with a bill
lard cue in Moriartys saloon. at Nineteenth
street and MartindaIe avenue. Friday night
inhicting injuries which resulted in the
death of Otis Hubbard some time early
yesterday morning.
Several times during the night preceding
the fight in which the fatal blow was struck
Otis had threatened his brother because he
had refused TO buy him a drink. With
George Carson, who, the police allege, en-
couraged Otis in his attacks upon his
brother, Cyrus Hubbard was arrested yes
terday afternoon by Detectives Manning
and Simon and Patrolman DeSotte. Hub
bard is charged with murder and Carson is
slated for being an accessory to murder
In company with Carson the murdered
man had been drinking during the day and
Friday night, meeting his brother Cyrus
in Blackwelrs saloon. at Columbia avenue
and Thirteenth street, demanded that he
buy a drink. Cyrus Hubbard, who was
with friend named Kendall, told the man
that he only had dime. but in order to
avert trouble he left the beer sitting on the
bar and walked from the place.
FOLLOWED HIM SOME DISTANCE.
In his intoxicated condition Otis Hubbard,
with Carson, followed Cyrus from Black
wells TO Moriarty's saloon, where the muir
der was committed. Otis was warned re-
peatedly by his brother to go away. FL
nally he left the saloon but returned about
1O:3O o'clock more intoxicated than ever.
Cyrus Hubbard was sitting down well
TO the rear of the saloon when his brother
re-entered the place. Accompanied by Car
son, Otis took several drinks at the bar
before he discovered his brother in the rear
of the saloon. Immediately he began to
taunt him for not buying a drink, calling
him cheap skate anu other names. Cyrus
refused to become involved in an argument
with his brother and, when the latter
started for him, he seized cue and left
the room.
With an angry cry the frenzied man
sprang for his brother, when the latter
turned and swingly wildly with the heavy
cue, struck his brother the side of the
head just over the right ear, where the
skull is thinnest, and knocked him down.
Different stories are told of what. hap
pened after the blow was struck. Ii is said
that Otis Hubbard lay for moment on the
floor and then arose and walked unsteadily
to the bar. He took several drinks and be-
yond complaining of feeling dizzy appeared
all right
The police believe that Hubbard never
rose after he was struck, They believe he
was carried to the room over the saloon.
the people in the saloon at the time not
thinking him seriously injured, and left
there.
Ii was only by the closest examination
that any bruise was found the man $
head TO show where the fatal blow fell. The
skull was fractured, the hole caused by the
blow being three inches long and two inch
es wide. Two assures in the skull extended
from the fracture to the base of the skull
and there were several bruises on the body.
FOUND BY PORTER.
Hubbard was not found after he went to
the room. or was carried there Friday
night, until about 10 o'clock yesterday
morning when the negro porter about the
place, Tom Harvey, entered the room to
clean the place. He discovered Hubbard
lying on the floor with bloody froth oozing
from his mouth.
The negro is deaf and dumb. but he i'm
mediately notified the proprietor of the
place. who hurried to the room to find
Hubbard dead No trace of bruise could
be found on the man and Coroner Tutewiler
was not notified until several hours later.
The hCdy was removed TO Tutewiler' 5
undertaking establishment, but the first
intination the police had of the trouble
was when some one telephoned the desk
sergeant inquiring If the body OF Hubbard
had been taken TO the morgue.
VITA nothing to work on beyond the
fact that a man had been found dead in
a room over the saloon Detectives Simon
and Manning were sent to the place. The
officers learned the mans name, but knew
nothing of the trouble until a peddler
named Shea told the story.
With Ed Hubbard. brother of the
murdered man, the officers visited the
saloon of William Blackwell at Thirteenth
street and Columbia avenue where Carson,
who also is known as Okey, found.
Cyrus Hubbard was found at his boarding
house To the officers he told the story OF
his fight with his brother in the saloon
and he was brought TO the police station.
Until the officers reached the police sta
ton with the man they did not know he
was wanted for the murder of his brother
as they had been informed that his death
was due TO excessive alcoholism.
y telegram from the aged father of the
boys Thomas Hubbard, who, with the
mother, lives at the Soldiers Home al
Lafayette, said that the mother dan
gerously i'll and would be unable to at
tend the funeral of her son. Otis Hubbard
was twenty-three years of age and Cyrus
is younger. There were five brothers ir
/ the family, all employed at the Atlas en-
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