The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-06
WAS SLUiGED ANDROBBED
MYSTERIOUS wouNolNo OF JET.
Err PARTLY CLEARED.
WAS RELIEVED OF sa5 CASH


and Started to Walk Uptown From
Junction az That Afternoon--Was
Found Seventeen Hours Later
i. E Jctor, the railroad workman
who was found wandering near beer
vault In Norfolk Tuesday morning
was sugged In the head by some un
known party for the purpose Of rob
berry, and was robbed OF $S6. The rob
berry occurred nt about o'clock Mon
day afternoon. about seventeen hours
Before Jeter was discovered by a
Northwestern r.'lrrrd brakeman to be
walking almlosslN around between this
City and tho Junction. The robbery
occurred In the eastern end of town
Enough the definite location Is un
. known Who it was that perhaps IN.
tally sluggcd Iotcr. or what the wound
cd man did between the hour that II
,eccurred and the next morning. Is un.
known and blank in Jeters mind.
This Ia the latest theory regarding
Che mystery which has hung over the
wounding of the Johnstown man since
NE was found in his frlghtfully slashed
condition, and this theory has every
aemblance OF being correct II was
developed IN conversation between
Jeter and his cousin, II. II. Jessup,
who arrived from Brown county to
take baCh his injured relative. Mr..
Jessup came down more for the pur.
pose of unfolding the mystery regard.
Ing the injuries. than anything else,
because he knew that Jeter, having
been at work all winter, must have
bad money on his person when he
was hurt.
Jeter until his arrived, maintained
chat he had come to town Monday
night on train No. 6 and that he must
Gave fallen down. II developed In his
ealk with Mr.. Jessup, however, that he
came up on the noon train from FIRE.
mont Monday. got off at the Junction,
ate his lunch there, bought two glasses
OF beer there and started up town.
He started UP town on First street,
and not until he had sat around at the
Junction for time. He thinks 1t was
about , o'clock when he started up
and that Is the last he remembers. He
says he had SS5 at the time. From
that hour until the next day is a
missing chapter of the story. He was
discovered wandering about near the
Temp beer vault at Z o'clock the next
morning. with three very deep gashes
in his scalp and his skull cracked in
two places.
His cousin believes that Jeter was
struck by robber with heavy iron
bar of some sort. He says that It
would have been impossible to crack
Che skull with any lighter object
The Norfolk police force never heard
OF the wounded man until they were
called by railroad men, and so far as
Us known they never looked into the
cause OF his injuries enough to de.
Selop whether 1t was robbery or not.
Jeter has declared all along that he
had been in some lodging house and
d is possible from this fact that he
was taken or went into some house
and there met with his sralping.
Jeter was taken back to Johnstown
last night. Before he left he told DIR.
Ptlger that the asst he remembered
was that he was walking along and
was struck by someone He bought
a ticket from Fremont to Norfolk and
had two baggage checks at the time,
but these we're also taken from him.
A shirt wrapped UP in Baum Bros
wrapper. which was found in his over
coat, shows that he must have reached
the business portion of town before he
was slugged
The railroad accident theory has
bcen practically abandoned by those
interested in the matter, and by Jeter
himself The railroad officials say
that the man was seen wandering
around the western end of the North.
western yards early in the morning.
il is possible that somebody, seeing
his money in a saloon, followed him,
enticed him either 10 some house or
to some secluded spot and there
slugged and robbed him.
The railroad officials say that there
have been a large number of buns
and suspicious looking characters In
town for several days, and number
have been seen ON the streets of the
nitN.