Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-13
Of damages asked for when the case
went to trial was s1,100.
Hall Files Cross Petition.

Hall hled a cross petition asking lot
$500 damages for the wrongful suing
out of an attachment Hall won and
Fritz lost. Hall received judgment
for $S5. The case was appealed to the
supreme court and is now pending
there, or rather was until the stipula
ton of settlement was filed today.
During the first part of May petit
tion was. filed by f. w. Hall suing Will
liam Fritz for $1,S93 damages, alleged
to have been sustained by the unlaw-
full ejectment Of Hall from the hotel
building. This suit has never been
tried and it, too, has been dismissed.
Another element beyond civil ac-
lions now enters into the history of
the feud. From evidence introduced
during the trial Of the first case, con-
ditions were revealed as existing in the
city Of Blakesburg which the grand
jury felt justified in investigating
From this investigation and from
subsequent developments there result
ed seven indictments. Guy Hall was
charged with maintaining nuisance.
William Hall and Lewis Henderson
were charged with keeping a gambling
house. Charles Tinsley and Otto Pc
terson were charged with perjury, the
latter by two indictments.
Guy Hall was tried and acquitted.
Soon after his acquittal he filed suit
against William Fritz and number
of prominent men of Blakesburg, all
members of the Fritz faction, alleging
malicious prosecution and asking
$4,000 damages.
The other criminal cases were con-
tinued over until the October term Of
court. Before they came to trial the
efforts of the peace makers had
availed and the cases were dismissed.
A petition signed by many of the most
prominent men Of Blakesburg, adj
dressed to County Attorney w. W.
Epps and the court, asked that the
cases be, dismissed for the sake of the
town itself.
Had these cases gone to trial, no
matter which way they had been de-
cided, the results might have been
violent and far reaching. So bitter
had grown the feeling between the
there are many who believe that
of possibility.
Criminal Cases are Dismissed
But the efforts of Mr.. Abegg and
other business men of Blakesburg and
Attorney Coen were at last successful
and on the motion of County Attorney
w. w. Epps, the court dismissed all
of the remaining criminal cases. This
] however, was after an agreement had
been perfected between the two fac.
tions.
The stipulations of settlement filed
today provide for the settlement Of all
the matters pertaining to the dissen
sion. The Halls are to relinquish all
claims for damages against Fritz
which they make in their untried
cases. The case Of Hall VS.. Fritz now
pending in the supreme court is dis
missed. The Judgment given Hall al
the first trial Of the original case is te
be released by Hail. The Halls are tt
pay all the costs in the three actions
}, In fact all the disputed points II
J, the controversy have been settled ant
!. dismissed, dismissed not only from
the dockets Of the Wapello count,
| district court. but from the minds AMI
hearts of the citizens Of Blakesburg
J Many bitter accusations were made
by both sides during the heat of thu
, controversy. Some Of these made b.
the Hall faction were incorporated
into the petition which the.
filed, and thus found thei
way into the columns Of tn,
press. Representatives Of this sid
now admit that these allegations wer
: made in the heat Of anger, dissensiol
! and strife and are not such as thei
+ cooler judgment would sanction, o
/ such as, they now believe to be true.
) And SO the clouds which have dal
]. kened for many days the horizon O
Z the town of Blakesburg have rolle
i away. Figuratively, at least, the SUI
3 shines brightly on the streets, whic
j have again assumed their wonted az
! tivity. The feud is over. The. Frit
= people believe they have won. TIL
E Hall faction is content to let it go a
4 that; SO are the people of Bla1esburs