Iron County register., 1904-11-03

due to make a Republican speech
at the courthouse that night, but
being in Jail he was unable to fill
the engagement.-Poplar Bluff Citi-
zen.
Last Saturday afternoon Henry
Trammel, having taken on few
drinks of fire-water, started from
Grandhomme's saloon to the court
house in search of P. w. Whit
worth. He went into the Collec-
tors Office, but found no one there
except Mrs. W., who assists her
husband in the duties of his Office.
Trammel peered behind the desk
and into every nook and corner for
the object of his search. AT
length, satisfied that Mr.. w. was
not in, Henry departed and re-
traced his steps to the saloon
across the street, our genial coll
lector all this time oblivious to the
fact that he was being sought after
SO persistently. 1t seems he was
out in front of the courthouse
grounds talking to some friends
not far from the gate. Shortly
after his unsuccessful search,
Trammel returned and as he came
up the steps to the sidewalk he
wanted to know "where that big
- WASP" Two or three
youngsters standing there laughed
and one of them said, "Here is the
only big man in the crowd" point
ing to Mr.. Whitworth standing a
few feet away. Trammel walked
up to him, saying, "What do you
want with meP" Mr.. w. an
swered, 81 don't want anything
with you, Henry" "Didn't you
say you wanted to knock my s.
of a b. head OFF," mo, Henry,
l never said anything of the kind.
Now, please go away and don't
trouble me-" But Henry per-
sisted, Mr.. w. requesting at least
half-a-dozen times that he 60
away, until at length Trammel
made a lunge toward him; then
Whitworth knocked him down
with his fist. Just at this time
VIM. .Sielinger of Marble Creek
"butted in" and after a few words
he grappled Whitworth and in
their struggles both, fell from the
sidewalk-here about three feet
above the street.-The the gutter,
when bystanders separated them
before either could injure the
other. In the meantime, the mar
shall and the sheriff came running
to the scene, as did a great many
citizens. The marshal attempted
to arrest Trammel who had re-
gained his feet and was making
warlike demonstrations. But the
marshal is a lightweight and
could not control his prisoner who
is giant in stature and weight.
The latter resisted and the mar
shall used his club to subdue him;
the crowd surging too closely, he
drew his gun and cried out, "Stand
back, gentlemen! I have arrested
this man and will keep him!" and
thereupon, with the assistance of
the sheriff, took his prisoner to the
Jail. These are the facts in the
case, with few incidents which |
now proceed to relate. When
Sielinger interfered Whitworth
was making no effort to further
punish the man he had prostrated.
''Don't you hit him again?" said
Sielinger. 81 don't intend to if he
will 60 away and let me alone"
said w. "Well, don't you hit
him again! repeated S. in a
menacing tone. By this time the
collectors blood was up,gand he
said, "What have you to do with
it? If you trouble me I'll hit you'll"
and so on until they clinched.
Sielinger, I hear, has had no good
will toward Whitworth for some
time. The cause I do not know,
nor does Mr.. w. After Sielinger
had mounted his wagon standing
by, he cried out to W., "This will
hurt you more than it will me!
I'm no candidate!" And some of
the Republicans present laughed
in approval. Various reports were
Immediately set afloat: one that
the marshal had drawn his "gun"
on Mr.. w. T. Gay; another that
Sheriff Polk held Trammel while
the marshal beat him, etc., all
utterly without foundation in truth.
No one regrets the occurrence more
than Mr.. Whitworth. He did all
that he could do to avoid it, short
of running ignominiously away.
The question in connection with
the affair that many of us would
like to have satisfactorily an
swered is: Who egged Henry T'ram-
mel on to raise the roav? | don't be-
lieve he did it of his own accord,
but that there was some one be-
hind it all. Who was it? What
was the hoped-for result? To in
jure Mr.. WIS candidacy? I con-
fess it looks nightly that way to
me, when l recall the fact that
Trammel said some one had told
him that w. "wanted to knock his
head off, "a thought that had
never entered Mr.. Whitworth' s
mind. Before starting across the
street to the courthouse he asserted
that he twas going to whip O'Neal
and Whitworth. The readers of
the REGISTER may implicitly rely
upon the truth of this account Of
the trouble; and, knowing the
truth, I am satisfied that the thou
sand-and-one lies concerning it
which will be- circulated from now
onsuntil election day will have no
effect other than to make Demo-
Gratis line up straighter and strong.
or than ever.
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