The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-19
TURRIBbE FIFE!
HOd QuIgly Meets a Person In the Disguise of a Stranger and a Violent Disturbance Follows Both Pretty Badly Used Up. One ATast Made by Constable Dsw- hsry---Sad Particulars Below

Hod ouigiy. who is one of our most
 respectable citizens. had heart render
 ing experience last Tuesday evening in
 which he got the worst of the bargain,
 but is now able to go round on crutehes
 bemoning his lot, while the other party
 to the conflict has left for whence he
 come.
 Last Tuesday Mrs. ouiRIy fixed up a
 lunch for Hod who hitched up his old
 grey mare to his light spring wagon and
 driv to his farm down Snake Bend way
 to fix up the fences. expecting to be gone
 until evening. which he was. When the
 Bingviile stage arrove from the county
 seat about { o'clock in the afternoon Sim Winslow the stage driver brought along with him as a passenger a stran- ger who he said had come to the county seat by railroad train. The stranger when he got off the stage entered the postoffice and asked Eph Higgins, our accommodating postmaster, where might be the residence of person named Hod Quigly. Eph pointed out Hod's house to the stranger and tried to find out who he was. but without success Tho stranger thanked Eph for the information and started for Hods residence Eph asked the stage driver if he knowed who that party was. and Sim he said he had tried to find out all the way from the county seat but had been unable to do SO. Speculastion was rife as to who he might be.
 Going directly to Hod's house the stranger hooked on the door and when Mrs. Quigiy come to see what was want ed he asked her if Hod was about. She told him that Hod had went away that morning to his lower farm to be gone all day. and she expected him back about p. m. The stranger said in that case he guess he would jest step inside and wait for Hod, which he did. Mrs. Quigfy was almost prostrated by curiosity to know who he was and to know what business he had with Hod. but whenever she tried to find out the stranger would change the subject and converse fiuently about something else.
 Hod got back home a little before and after he had put up his horse he entered the house the back way where Mrs. Quigly was preparing supper. She told Hod that there was a man wanted to see him in the front parlor, 90 Hod he clumpt into the room and the stran- ger got up and held out his hand and says "Hullo, Hod. how be you any, howT' Hod he shook hands, but he says to the man, Pears like you have inc advantage of me, sir-I don't reckon as I ever saw you before" "Oh yes you have" says the man. T have knowed you going on 50 years. and I never know 0A NNtJ hiNSh SpON OA SOu HO0 he kind of bristled up at this and saws he. You better be little mite careful how you talk to me in my own house unless you desire to have yourself kicked out into the street" The stranger just lafEed and said he didn't caliIiIate that he was afraid of any old broken wreck of humanity like Hod was. This made EIod awful mad, and so he pointed to the door and stampt his boot and says You sit out of here" The stranger just kept on laffing at Hod and said he cal- kilated he would stay there in that house as long as he pleased. At this point Hod grabbed the man by the collar and pulled him into the hall and showed him out the front door. and when he got him faced toward the street give him a kick which sent him clean down the steps and onto the grass. Up to the time Hod kicked the man he had been laffinR At .o split. but when he got the boot he stopt laffing and got mad. Before Hod realised what had happened the man grub him and drug him out into the yard and hit him a belt across the face. knocking him over backwards after which he Jufnpt on Hod and begin to pound him with great vigor. Two or three times both men struggled to there 'eet and rastisd around hitting and kick