Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-31

barnyard with other children older, all
engaged in burning leaves The
little fellows clothing caught fire in
some manner and before the flames
could be extinguished he was burned
SO badly death came soon after.
With the forepart of his scalp par
TALLY torn from his head, his right
ear cut in two, and big artery In nis
temple severed, Archie Isham of Red
Oak, Ia, came near bleeding to death
in Omaha before a doctor could be
secured to treat him. Isham who
is plasterer, has been working
in Omaha for a month. While
working on the new Rome hotel
he fell from scaffold and land
ed in window, the broken glass cut
ting him in many places.
Leo James, negro who was serv-
ing thirty day. Jail sentence at Keo-
kuk, on drunk and disorderly
charge, committed suicide by sever
ing his jugular vein and windpipe with
a razor in his cell. He had Just been
shaving and gave no intimation that
he contemplated taking his life.
Those to whom he talked while in
fear that the authorities elsewhere
would learn of his whereabouts that
he took his life.
United States District Attorney F.
F. Faville declares that it is crime
to put prisoner in the Woodbury.
county Jail, where many federal pris-
oners are kept He is consequently
busy getting afidavits that the Jail
is damp and i'll ventilated and that
its prisoners do not receive sufficient
food. They will be forwarded to the
attorney general in Washington in
support of a recommendation that the
Jail should be officially tabooed by
the department of justice.
E. S. Chesbro, formerly surveyor of
Taylor county, has been arrested by
Sheriff Humphrey and brought to
Bedford charged with the crime of
embezzlement. The crime with which
Chesbro is charged is alleged to have
been committed some months ago
Chesbro was practicing law at Block.
ton and, In connection with G. b
Haddock & Sons of Bedford, was EN-
pIoyed by some Athelstan parties. In
this relationship, money belonging to
one Dan Hays came into Chesbro's
hands. Hays claims the money was
never paid him and he had Chesbro
indicted by the last grand jury. Ches-
bro was surveyor of Taylor county
for several terms, and resigned only
a few months ago, when he left for
Irdian Territory somewhat suddenly
He was arrested at. Talihina, where he
was employed as teacher in the
Indian school.
Efforts to break a will involving
$4,000 and based on the makers
gratitude for the kindness received
in her declining years, are involved
in case in the district court of
Hardin county. For number of
years a Mrs. Overre eek lived at Ack-
ley. She seemed alone in the world,
but her declining years were made
the easier by the kindnesses and good
deeds of a young man named George
Wolf. When she died it was found
that she had left a will in which she
gave Mr.. Wolf 100 acre farm locat.
ed in Franklin county, its conserva-
tive value being $4,000 1t now ap
pears that daughter who lives in
and she now seeks to break the will
of her mother, who for many years
needed the gentle care and kindly
ministrations of a daughter. The
case is now on trial.
After one of the most sensational
trials in the history OF Guthrie
county, William Morrison secured a
verdict for $4,000 damages against a
man named ceiling for malicious pro
secution. This is the first verdict OF
the kind on record in that county.
and one Of the few of its kind in this
section of the state. Last February
Eeling, whose step-daughter is Morri
sons wife, filed an information against
Morrison, charging him with rape.
ceiling and his witnesses told an ex.
traordinary story at the preliminary
hearing, accusing the defendant of an
assault upon ceilings daughter and
the defendants wife of completely ir
the crime. Morrison was bound ovel
to the grand jury, which refused to
find an indictment. Morrison in
stituted suit for heavy damages
against Eelilg and secured a verdict
for $4,000, having shown to the salts,
faction of the jury that the prosecu-
ticn instituted by ceiling was purely
malicious.
Probably the highest award ever
given in personal injury suit in
Iowa, verdict for $4,000, was given
to John Garfield of independence in
the district court at Marengo. Can
field was injured near independence.
He was riding on a handcar on the
Rock Island tracks at a time OF
dense fog when he was struck by an
extra freight train. He was fright
fully hurt and lost one of his legs as
a result Of the accident. He brought
suit in Independence fer $4,000 dam
ages, but the case was transferred
to the district court at Marengo for
trial. Up to the time of the verdict
In this case the highest damage YER
dict was secured by A. p. Huggard OF
Davenport in his famous suit against
the Glucose Sugar Refining Company,
amounting to more than $4,000.
This verdict was finally sustained by
the supreme court after a stubborn
fight of a couple of years. Huggard
was made absolutely helpless for life
by his accident Judge Nj. ]. Wade OF
Iowa City, who was one of the attor.
neys in the Huggard case, was the
leading attorney for Garfield, making
the second large damage verdict Sc.
cured by him for clients
DR.. w. r. Marsh, veterinary sur
geon of Sibley, was kicked by a horse
and will probably die from his In.
1uries. He was in the barn alone,
doing his evening chores, and when
found one side of his body was al
most completely crushed.
While painting r. w. Taylor & Co. s