The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-01-23
A GARTER BUCKLE
CAUSE OF ASSAULT
WAS A GIFT TO WIFE BY AN
OTHER AT College.
FIGHT ON IOWA CAPITOL STEPS
The Jealous Husband Had Never Be.
fore Seen the Young Lawyer
Who Gave the Present
FiIleen Years Ago.


Des Moines, Jan. pa garter
with a pretty silk ribbon and frat"
engraved buckle is said to have been
he cause of the assault which Carl
lane Clemens OF Snohomish, WASH,
made on r. H. Dosh of Stuart IN the
state house. The garter was given
oy Dosh to Mrs. Clemens twelve or
fifteen years ago, according to old
friends and classmates OF the two,
while they were students at Simpson
college, Indianola.
Neither man had ever seen the 9th
er before when they met by accident
On business yesterday IN the attor'
ney generals Office. Clemens heard
Dosh give his name to the clerk, ask
ed him his initials, invited him out
into the corridor and Knocked him
down. Then the two men walked
out into the street where Clemens
knocked him down again, Dosh's
head hitting the sidewalk with such
force that he is still in the Methodist
Hospital here in a critical condition.
Both men are lawyers, about 30
years of age, and Clemens was for
merly football player and coach at
Leland Stanford Jr. university, and
is well known on the Pacific coast,
Dosh is said to have given the gar
ter to Mrs. Clemens at Simpson col
lege, years before Clemens met her
on the Pacific coast, where she was
visiting friends. He has never liked
the donor of the garter and has been
insanely jealous of Dosh. Mrs.Clem-
sns and Dosh have not met for years,
aeither have they correspondent, but
this seems to have made no differ
ence to Clemens. He is saiu to have
brooded over the garter and its frat
buckle with the engraved initials,
and nothing that Mrs. Clemens could
say or reason distate would cool his
anger SO when Clemens met Dosh
at the capitol Wednesday and asked
him, How about that garter?" moth
ing that Dosh could say would clear
up the matter.
Friends Explain Mystery.
This is the cause of the two days
mystery which has baffled the Off
GERS, according to intimate friends
and former schoolmates of Dosh and
Mrs. Clemens.
The social life of Simpson college,
i Methodist institution, was staid and
luiet. Dosh and Miss Smith, who
afterwards married Clemens, were
friends. One Christmas, SO the sto
~ has it, the boys decided to give
their girl friends garters and Miss
Smith accepted a garter from Dosh.
After school days Dosh and Miss
Smith correspondent but only for a
short time. Later she went to the
pacific coast on visit where she
net Clemens and they were married.
After the marriage, it is said, she
old her husband about the garter
and he did not like it. When Glenn
ems met Dosh in the attorney gener,
ils office it all came back to him and
the assault followed.
Doctors in Consultation.
At Methodist hospital yesterday a
consultation of doctors was held by
Dr.. Thomas Duhigg, Dr. Smouse and
Or. Dosh, father of the injured man.
Dosh was not so we'll last evening.
rhe doctors found the usual signs of
, fractured skull, but declined to
give out the statement as fact I'M
Ill further development. Dosh was
allowed to sit up in chair the first
.wo days, but soon found he grew
worse in that position, and is now
Kept in bed.
Clemens is at Cedar Rapids wait
ng jan a. the date set for trial
lere. His attorneys are negotiating
with DIR. Dosh and are anxious to eff
tect a settlement of the cash, Dosh
demands that Clemens make sworn
statement acknowledging his fault,
withdrawing several statements ne
is alleged to have made about Dosh,
and is expected to pay the expenses
incurred Dosh will probably not
ask damages, considering the anair
one of question of honor alone.