The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-17
Four WeII-KnoWn Young Men
Seriously injured 10 Fierce
Attack Made by italians
KNIVES CAUSE MANY WOUNDS
Joseph Beam, Robert Eskeridge, Frank
Eskeridge and William Hess Have
Narrow Escape From Being
Killed Sunday Evening

AS result of fierce hand to hand
contest between six Italians and four
we'll known young men of ne city at
the corner of Pearl and West streets
just before clock Sunday evening
the four men are laid up with serious
wounds which will probably keep
them from work for some time. The
injured:
JOSEPH BEAM, well-known#pugilist,
left arm slashed with knife.
ROBERT EsKERIDGE, head and face
cut in many places and hands cut;
badly hurt.
FRANK EsKERIDGE, stabbed twice
in the back, once in the arm and once
in the hand.
WILLIAM HESS, hand cut.
The cause of the trouble seems to
be unknown to the police and not
withstanding the fact that Officer
Newhouse hurried to the scene of the
fight he was unable to secure the ar
rest of any of the Italians charged
with making the assau1tson the men.
The four men had been spending
the afternoon with friends in the
western part of the city and we're on
their way to their home on Park
street when the trouble occurred.
Just as they turned the corner at
West and Pearl streets they met
party of seven Italians. The mem
had been drinking and it is claimed
that one of them 1urched into the
party of Americans. The man struck
pushed the Italian away and this par
ticipated the fight. In an instant the
seven Italians leaped at the Ameri-
cans and blood flowed freely. The
Americans we're unarmed and for this
reason we're handica pped.
It is claimed that all Of the Italians
drew knives and began slashing right
and left. The appearance Of the
clothing of the three men showed that
the Italians did not miss many knife
thrusts and it seems a miracle that
some of the men we're not killed IN
the assault. Beam and his companions
made a hot fight and three of the
Italians were knocked down and out
when a fourth came toward Beam
with a revolver IN his hand. He was
promptly knocked down and the re-
volver taken from him. BY this time
the Italians we're concentrating their
fight on Robert Eskeridge who had
fallen in the struggle and he was re-
pea4edly stabbed about the face.
When the tide Of battle turned in
favor of the Americans the Italians
started and ran away. None of them
was captured. It is claimed that
two Of them were badly injured in the
melee.
Beam and Hess we're taken to the
Office of DR.. ]. B. Spalding and while
their wounds were exceedingly pain
full they are not thought to be danger
Gus. The two Eskeridge boys we're
taken to the Office of DR.. Lansdowne.
1t was necessary to take eighteen
stitches to close the wounds of Robert
Eskeridge but those Of his brother
were not so serious.
The matter was left III the hands
of the police and last night they
secured the Italian quarter ia an
effort to find some trace of the men
who had attacked Beam and his party
but no arrests were made. It is
thought that the Italians lived in the
neighborhood where the fight occurred
but it was so dark that it is not
thought the injured men could
identity any of them.