Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-03
George Henshaw Raises Rough
House in Guaranteed Home
and Neigh ors Interfere
CLAIMS SISTER is INSANE
Poverty Stricken Family Being Well
Cared For, Despite Henshaw's Claim
That Inmates Of House Are Starving
= Home is the Limit of Destitute
Surroundings.


element last night, when neighbors
interfered in what was declared to be
rough house created by George Hen
shaw of Boone, and which resulted in
a call to police headquarters for pro-
lection.
George Stiegelmeyer, a drayman liv-
ing at COL North Sixth street. died
Tuesday night after q short illness due
to cerebro spinal fever. The house
was quarantined on the day he died and
i'm 1t at the time we're the sick man,
his wife and 6-weeks- old baby son,
George Henshaw and wife, Of Boone,
and Mrs. G. w. Hileman, of this city.
Mrs. Hileman and Mrs. Henshaw are
sisters of Stiegelmeyer, and Henshaw
and his wife reached the city THE eve
ming preceding Stiegelmeyers death.
Begins to Raise Trouble.
Henshaw began, to raise trouble dm-
mediately. according to the police, and
has been insisting that the members of
the household are starving for want of
food. This claim is without founda-
ton, according to Deputy MarSnal
Clark, the quarantine officer.
Thursday evening neighbors Of the
Stiegelmeyers called police headquar-
tiers and said that HenshaW had driven
Mrs. Stiegelmeyer from the house, and
that she was in the back yard, crying
and asking for help. Officers respond
ed, and found gathering Of fifty or
more people about the house. Many
were women, and they were in tears.
Henshaw Claims Woman is Insane.
Henshaw claims that Mrs. Stiegel-
meyer is insane. The police are not
prepared to vouc1l for the truth of the
statement, but think that it would not
be surprising If such were the case,
considering what the woman has gone
thru during the past few days. The
woman's chief trouble was that she
claimed Henshaw had refused to al
low,teer to have her babe. Henshaw
claimed that the woman was not fit to
care for the babe, and that the infant
should be weaned at once. HenshaW
had taken upon himself to light several
sulphur candles, despite the police
instructions that fumigation would be
attended to by the city physician. 1t
seems that the sulphur is what drove
Mrs. Stiegelmeyer from her room.
Neighbor women informed the police
that Mrs. s;tiegelmeyer cared for her
babe as we'll as any mother could I'M
der the circums tances.
Destitution is Pitiful.
The restitution apparent on every
hand in the Stiegelmeyer home is pitt
ful ia behold. When Stiegelmeyer was
sick there was but one bed in the
house, and that the patient occupied.
Mrs. Stiegelmeyer and her babe slept
on the floor. with sack Of potatoes as
q pillow.
Bedding and Bed Furnished.
when Henshaw came he made a re-
quest, or rather a demand, from u
ficer Clark for bedding and bed. He
said there was an empty tick that
could be used If the city would FUR
nish bale Of straw. A bale or straw
was sent out, together with five new
comforts furnished by Mayor Ingledue
himself. and a second hand bed, good
enough for any one to use. Last nfgnt
the straw was found out in the mud,
untouched, and the bed was refused
because it was second-han
Given Plenty to Eat.
The quarantine officers supply sheet
shows the following articles In refuta-
ton Of the claim made by HenshaW
that the members Of the household are
starving to death. On Monday there
were sent to the Stiegelmeyer home
coffee, sugar, butter, lard, sack OF
flour. eggs, yeast, breakfast food,
"a of nlxarQ nrl1npS.
a sack of potatoes, kerosene, soap and
coal. The Thursday order included the
following: Breakfast food, coffee, eggs,
bacon, beans, lard. vinegar, cheese,
toilet soap, and sulphur, and Mellin's
food, bottle, and nipples for the baby
Henshaw Too Well Known.
Henshaw is too we'll known in this
CITY to receive much consideration on
the part Of the police. They have heard
the same stories and had the same
rough houses to contend with under
other similar circumstances. The health
department has under consideration
the removal of Henshaw and his wife
to other quarters to remain during the
period of quarantine, and leaving Mrs
Stiegelmeyer in her home alone, or
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Hileman.
Henshaw is the man who, on June
q, 1896, assaulted the late e. N. Cha
pin, one of the pioneer newspaper men
of Marshalltown, during some argu-
ment that arose when Henshaw was a
tenant on Chapin's farm. Chaplin died
as a.result Of his injuries, on July 20.
The case, on a charge of manslaugh-
ter, was tried in the September term,
and on Sept. 26, 1896, the jury dis
agreed. On April %. 1898, the case