The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-19
A Card from Prosecuting Attorney
Molter.

To the Citizens of Plymouth, Mar
shall County, Indiana:
Up to the present time | have re-
Trained from answering any of the
many vicious, false and slanderous
articles published about me by c. w
Metsker, the publisher of the Ply
mouth Daily Independent, but the ar
ticle published in said paper ON Sep
tember 11th, and published in the
Democrat of September 18th, 1907, in
my judgment calls for statement OF
the facts which will proceed to give
The difficulty between Mr. Nor,
sches and John Sebell, which is men-
toned in said article occurred in the
afternoon on Sept. 10th, and | knew
nothing of it until Marshal Jacoby
brought Sebell to- my Office at about
4:3O o'clock p. m. on that day Mr.
Morsches when brought into court,
through his attorney Adam E. Wise,
asked for a continuance. which was
granted and |, having been informed
that Mr.. Morsches was not to- blame
for the Sebell trouble; that Sebell had
been looking for trouble all after
noon, and that he made special ef-
forts to start ito racket prior to coming
to Mr.. Morsches' place with one
John Flosenzier, | went to see Mr..
Flosenzier, and on my return to my
office in passing Mr. Morsches place
of business, | was called in by him,
he requesting me to listen to state
ment OF two Witnesses who were
present and heard the difficulty which
occurred between John Sebell and
himself.
While | was listening to their state
ment, William Rish came in and call
ed for a drink Mr. Morsches waited
on him and after drinking, Rish re-
fused to pay for it. and thereupon
Morsches grabbed a large revolver
and came around the bar, and as he
passed me | then and there caught
Mr.. Morsches and took the revolver
fnomf him pushing him back. | then
turned to Rish. who was cursing and
swearing, and asked him kindly to
leave the house and nol make any
further trouble; he refused and called
me a vile name and as | put him out
of the room he made the re-
mark: I'll get you before you get
home" | paid no attention to the
threat, but turned to the two wit
nesses and heard the rest of their
story, and then went out. This was
at least five hours after the trouble
had occurred between SebeH and
Morsches. When got out on the
sidewalk, Rish rushed out from Hills
front door or the stairway near, and
struck me and at the same time kick
ed me- | grasped for him, and the
same time struck at him and knocked
him down, arrested him and took him
to jail and saw that he was locked UP.
Now il Mr.. Metsker keeps on kicking
me in his vile li-tle mud singing,
dog fennel sheets Gas Judge Hess
christened them,) | shall have to be
obliged to knock him down and if /
do, | shall certainly be no respector
of persons, for as between Rish and
Metsker. Rish is the better citizen;
and will safely lodge Mr.. Metsker in
jail, where in my opinion, he ought
to be all the time.
Now | do not publish this in fear
that the article in the said papers will
ho me any injury, for the truth will
out, and the time has long since
passed when any reputable citizen
prctends to believe anything they see
in the way of news in his papers, for
they know that he has been success
fully impeached, adjudged gambler,
and indicted by grand jury COM
posed of Democrats, for grating.
And it has been a settled fact among
the business men of the community
tb,f he d1IaI Tho h;1l &c ono of Dee
ident Roosevelt's undesirable citi-
zens The following named citizens
were present and saw the whole
trouble between Mr. Morsches and
Rish, and they will vouch for the
truth of the foregoing-Charles Kauf-
man, Mr. Winrott, Jesse Ellinger,
Omer Ellinger and Benjamin Barber
Now, as to the other charge made
by Mr.. Metsker, that | was caught
in house Of ill-repute, by the Off
GERS. Mr.. Ed earn and myself own
certain house which was rented to
strangers. Soon after the house was
occupied we learned from John F.
Myers of Letters Ford, Ind, that the
house was being used for unlawful
purposes, he mentioning the same to
me in the evening just as | had cont
pleted two indictments for forgery,
they being the first indictments that
| ever prepared. | at once prepared
notice and on my way home stop
ped at this house and served notice
to them to vacate the premises, and
while there the officers came and ar
rested the parties q knowing that
they were to be arrested that night
for Myers so informed me- Now
Mr.. Metsker we'll knows that | not
only served the notice, bun drove
them out OF town, he also knows that
Justice Young held their furniture
for the fines.
Now Mr.. Metsker's abuse OF me
comes from the fact that he came to
me while the grand jury that indicted