The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-14
OLD MAN BRUTALLY
 BEATEN AND ROBBED
Frank Weber Arrived on Traveller and Was Assaulted While Hunting a Room Offices Repetto Ar
 rests Suspected Man.

l. st Monday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, Frank Weber, a butcher from Stroud, Ok, was slugged aud robbed of about Sl7. He suffered a fracture of the right lower jaw bone, a badly blaCkened eye and several other badly bruised places about the head.
 The slugging from all ap pearances was done with a sand bag, as the skin was not broken in any place.
 According to the old mans statement he arrived in Mena on the Traveller aud went to restaurant to get supper. When in there he asked strang. CT where he could get room for the night. The stranger directed him up Mena street and he start ed. At pie avenue he turned toward Fourth street. As ht come to the alley he was knocked down and carried several feet in. to the alley.
 Frank Repetto, the Il g h watchman, was going up Mena street about this time and he heard someone groaning. He went quietly to the rear of the buildings and between the barns into the alley. It was too dark for him to see anything, but he heard a dull thud and the groan- ing stopped. Then he heard a man running down the alley toward Maple avenue. Repetto teok after him and halted him, going across the rear of the cor. ner lot facing Fourth street, When asked what he was doing in the alley, the man said he was looking for a dog. The officer told him that dark alley was a strange place to hunt a dog at that time of night, and started down the alley with him. The man objected at first to going down the alley, probably because he feared they would find the olt man. All they saw was the two other men running down the alley. They have not been seen since.
 The officer and his man then went around the street for some time, looking for some one tc identify the mau. When no oue could be found who knew him, he was placed under arrest. They then went to Bennett Jackson s drug store, where they found the old man. He had regained con- sciousness and had managed to get over there. It was so dark ir the alley that the officer had failed to see him, and supposed the three men had only been fighting. From Jackson's, the prisoner was taken to the jail.
 Officer Repetto then got Ian tern and went to the scene of the robbery and looked around. He found some blood spots, pocket knife and a silver dollar where the old man had lain, and found sev' enty-oue cents and a Woodmar coin a few feet away. The res' of the S17 that the man had los was gone. Next morning he saic he did not belong to the WooG men, but had found the coin.
 At the preliminary hearing next morning before Squire San Smith the prisoner gave his nam' as J. c. Morgan and said hi home was in Sulphur Springs He was bound over to the Circui court. His bond, which ne wal unable to furnish, was fixed a S500. When searched, he had ; little over soc, so evidently haC failed to get share of the booty
 Mir. Weber is probably knowr by some people in Mena, as ht worked here for Straus Brothers about six years ago. He is abou 65 years of age, He was withou medical attention until next morn ing, when he was examined b' Drs. Dunman and Watkins. Hi wounds were bandaged and h. was put to bed. It Is not knowr as yet how serious his injurie' may prove. Several doctors wer, called on that night and failed tt come to see him, so he suffered through the night without relief