The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-20
DR.. ALBERT S. STEVENS,
Of Hancock, Iowa, Has Exciting Expert
ence with Du lehman Full OF Red
Iiquor

I tive of this cOunty-a brother of
Contractor Thomas b., aud DR..
Frank K, Of Jnis place Just
across the street from DR.. Al
bert's residence in Hancock, To-
wa, is the home Of August Krue-
ger, farmer worth about $50,
600, who retired from the farm
about two years ago, and moved
into town. Gust is not a bad
kind of a Dutchmau when he is
sober, but he is sold medicine"
when he is drunk.
Last Saturday a week, the old
man felt like wettiug his whistle,
and when he went to his little
brown jug, the jug was not there.
The old fellow was already pretty
well tanked up, and when he could
not find his jug, he became fur
ious, and at once suspected that
his wife had something to- do with
its disappear ance. In order to
help her to make up her mind
without any unnecessary delay to
return the jug to hlm, he accom-
panied his request with repeat
ing double barrel shotgun, which
he cooked and pointed directly at
her head. She threw up her
hand just in time to cause the
load which her husband was dis.
charging, to go over her head and
into the wall. She at once sprang
through the door and ran into the
sire. Tor her life. Kruger fired
at her again, but providentially,
at the moment he fired, she trip
ped and fell prone to the ground,
and the load of shot again went
over her body. She was prob
ably so frightened that she did
not at once arise, and persons
who witnessed the shooting, sup
posed that she had beeu killed.
A few moments later, some one
rushed INTO DR.. Stevens Office,
which is some distance down the
street, telling the Doctor that
Mrs. Kruger had been shot, and
to come at once. Without taking
time to put on his hat, the Doctor
ran, and when about fifteen yards
from the Kruger home, he saw
the old man on the porch, and
ordered him to put the gun away.
Krueger's reply was a load of
shot, three of which the Doctor
received IN the groin and thigh.
Thinking the sanitary conditions
about the Kruger residence we're
not just up to the standard laid
down by the State Board of
Health, the Doctor thought he
might live longer by gong TO an
other part of the city. He travel
ed; and just as he dropped INTO a
ditch at the other side of the
street, bang went old Krueger's
gun, and this time DR.. Stevens
stopped three more shot-three
IN the shoulder, and one above the
ear. BY this time citizens came
running from every point, and
Kruger retreated to the inside of
the house where he fired on the
crowd, and shots were fired from
the outside, until the windows
were shattered, the doors full of
holes, and the whole structure
had Port Arthur appearance.
After bonn bardment of near
" three hours, firing from the in
side ceased, and the sheriff and
his followers ventured iu-here
they found the old man lying on
the hoor-not dead, but wounde i
IN 'lozen places.
He was arrested and taken off
TO the prison infrmary. The
woundsof DR.. Stevens had prompt
attention, and while the surgeons
were able to extract some of the
shot, he will have to carry those
most deeply i'm mbedded, until his
dying day.
WEST DUBLIN.
Nettie Price has gone back to