Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
"SMOKEY ROW
in EVIDENCE
EVENTS SHOW THAT ALL OF THE
GLORY OF THE PLACE HAS
NOT DEPARTED
Jake Rich Cuts His Sweetheart With
an Ak and She Returns the caress-
Two RevoIvers Are Stoen-Colored
Man is Suspected.

FROM MOnQay DAILY.
Things began to have an ole
time aspect around police court this
morning. There was a suggestion Of
the good old days" in the air. "Smo
key Row" was represented as it has
not been in many years.
Jake Rich was in police court charg
ed with drunkenness. Jake is resi-
dent of the row. He got ten days fol
drunkenness, but there may be more
coming to him. Jake and his lady had
slight difficulty on the row about s
O'Clock last evening as a result OF
which the lady is suffering from a
, long deep cut on the left side of her
face, made by Jake with an unroman'
tic ak. Jake also has cut on his,
head, on the right side. "She done it
with dirk" said Jake.
The woman, Nora Jones, who has
been keeping house for Rich, left him
recently and went to live with Mrs.
l.. Davidson, residing on East Mill
street.
Last night Rich, according to his own
story. which he told the police this
morning, went to the place. He asked
her to return to him, and then she
and the Davidson woman each took af-
ter him with a knife. He ran, and.
. running, grabbed the ak, which he used
with effect.
The Jones woman was unable to be
brought into police court this morning
and no charges against her have been
filed as yet. Both parties in the case
are colored.
Takes Two Guns.
go
the pawnshop OF Jonas Sax at 314 East
to purchase a revolver. Mr. Sax dis
played two weapons upon the counter
to his prospective purchaser; the ne
gro picked them up carelessly, as
though examining them. While hold.
ing the two revolvers in his hand, he
stepped to the door as though he were
going to call friend that was stand
ing on the sidewalk, and disappea
through the doorway with the guns.
The counter is quite a long one and by
the time Mr.. Sax had reached the
doorway, the thief was almost to
Green street Running down Green
street, the colored man ran to the rail-
road tracks and then ran east along
the tracks.
About ten o'clock last evening, the
police, assisted by Mr. Sax, captured
Thad Goodrich, colored, whom Mr., Sax
/ identified as the man who robbed him.
i Goodrich was charged with robbery
and will have his preliminary hearing
tomorrow. One of the guns was found
by the police at Merritt's boarding
house on Vine street, where Goodrich
| boards. The other gun was found on
Thomas Brown, also negro, who was
later arrested. Brown, it is said, at
tempted to draw the gun on another
colored man at the Merritt boarding
house earlier in the evening.
He was given three days for intoxica.
ton and thirty days for carrying con-
cealed weapons by Police Judge Camp.
bell this morning.
| Another Revolver Causes Trouble
But the heinous work of the conceal
ed fire arm was not yet done. The vic
tim this time was not a colored man,
but M. L. Price, a miner from Hite-
man. Price was innocent of any mean
1 ing of harm, too. His case was really
a hard luck one. or would have been
had not Judge Campbell also looked
at it that way
Price, SO he says, won revolver at
a rattle held at "the company store" at
Hiteman Saturday evening. He then
went to Abba and last evening came
4 to Ottunlwa. This much was all right,
! but Price made two mistakes one
was that he still carried the gun he
had won; an act against the peace and
dignity of the state of Iowa, and the
other that he managed to imbibe a
fine, large sized Jag" He was ar
rested for drunkenness, and when
searched, the revolver was found. 1t
was hard to explain to cynical DO
lice judge, but Price did his best and
stuck to his story until Judoge Camp
bell made his fine So which Price ar
ranged to pay, and was released
Injured in Runaway.
Joseph EURO, with badly battered
face, was before Judge Campbell with
tho rest of the bunch this morning.
EURO, according to the story he told,
had taken a relative who was leaving
the city, to the union depot yesterday
afternoon. AS EURO was leaving the
depot he attempted to get into his bug.
/ gy but the horse jumped and lunged.
In the mixup which followed EURO re-
ceived considerably the worst of it.
His face was badly cut on the right
side and the ambulance was called to
take him to the police station. He was
intoxicated at the time and
this condition is supposed to have
been the cause of the runaway,
Judge Campbell this morning
released him after EURO had told his
story. The horse was caught and TAX
en- to zuro's home near the Roseland
coal mine.
John MinnicN was arrested Saturday
for conducting a disorderly house and
Lottie Minnick was also arrested on
4 the charge of being an inmate Of such
= place. Minnlcl1 was sentenced to
thirty days in Jail but the sentence
was suspended on condition that he
would leave the city to stay Lottie
was given thirty days to be added to
], a like sentence that she already has
coming to her for former offense
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