The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-07-27
A SENSATIONAL CHARGE
Mrs. Hal Karr, of EOsceoIa, Claims
to Have BeensGrossIy InsuIted--
Some!D0ubts as to Story.

this city the past week over a charge
brought against two of Icons we'll
known citizens, city marshal A. M.
Pryor and O. E. Tullis, by Mrs. Hal
Karr, the wife of travelling photog-
rapher from Osceola, but as usual there
are two sides to the story and we will
give both and let the reader form his
own conclusion.
Last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Karr
who has been stopping at Hotel Denison
for several weeks with her husband,
came up town and wanted to file an in
formation against Marshal Pryor and
Mr.. Tullis. Her story is that during the
afternoon Pryor and Tullis came to the
hotel and asked for her. When she
came into the Office they asked where
her husband was, and said he had got
ten into trouble. Mrs. Karr wanted
them to tell her what it was, but they
said they could not tell her there, but
that if she would meet them that night
down toward the depot they would tell
her what it was and thought the matter
could be fixed up. Marshal Pryor after
talking a few minutes left and Tullis re-
NAMED, and he continued to insist that
she meet them that night, but she says
she refused and went to Mayor Nc
Ginnis' Office where she repeated her
story and said they had insulted her
and wanted warrant issued for their
arrest. The mayor was absent from the
city, but his stenographer, Miss Rhea,
talked to the woman who appeared
greatly excited, and advised her to
phone to her husband who was at Davis
City and have him come up and talk the
matter over before doing anything.
Mrs. Karr then visited Justice John
Holden, where she repeated her story
and the matter was brought to the at
tention of county attorney Kelley. That
night the husband came from Davis City
and Friday morning Karr and his wife
were still insisting on filing the inform
alton, but the county attorney decided
to go slow with the matter, as there ap-
pesrad to be some discrepancies. in the
story, and Karr and his wife5aw went to
Davis City on the noon train, and moth
ing more has been heard from them.
Marshal Pryor's side of the story is
that he had received tip to watch
Karr, and the nigh. before had found
him prowling around several houses in
the north part of town, and had watched
him until after o'clock. The next day
he called at the hotel to make some in
quiries, and noticing Mr.. Tullis across
the street, asked him to go over with
him. They asked for Mrs. Karr, and
when she appeared made inquiries about
her husband, as to where he was, and
she replied he had gone to Davis City.
Marshal Pryor asked her where her
husband was the night before and she
said he was at the hotel with her, and
they had gone to bed about nine clock;
she denied he had left the hotel after
going to bed. The marshal told her he
had been watching him and she inmed-
lately wanted to know what was the
matter, and said if he had been getting
into trouble again she wanted to know
it and she would go to her home
in Osceola. He said this was about all
that was said as he only talked to her a
few minutes, after which he left the
hotel. The conversation all took place
right in the Office and could easily have
been heard by other parties in the
house. Tullis was standing there when
he left. Mr.. Tulls corroborated Pryor
in all his statements, and says that
when Pryor left he simply told Mrs.
Karr not to get excited or worked up as
he did not think there was any serious
trouble of any kind. He also vigorously
denies her statement that either he or
Pryor asked her to meet them down by
the depot or anywhere else.
The statement of the marshal as to
seeing Karr in the north part of town
the night before is also corroborated by
several other parties who saw him, and
there is also the statement of Miss
Rhea that Mrs. karr at first said the
marshal had insulted her, and then
afterward said it was not the marshal
but Mr.. Tullis.
Karr whose home is at Osceola, anne
to Leon something over month ago
with his wife, and was engaged in tax.
ing outside views. They first stopped
at the Woodmansee House for a couple
week, but left there and went to the
Denison.
This is in substance the whole story
and public opinion is divided, some in.
sisting that if the lady was insulted she
is entitled to the protection of the law
while others claim there is nothing in
the story but that it is simply scheme
& to try to injure the marshal and Mr.
4 Tullis, and that the story told is full Of
discrepancies. 1t certainly does lool
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