Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-19
ED CLUB AS
A PERSUADER
bluff Made by Disorderly Mo.
line Youth Does Not Go
With Police officer.
row AT HUBER'S GARDEN
Trouble Makers Are Fined by Mag.
Observation-Disclosures Gets Black
Eye from Passenger.

Fl Edwin Scherrcr. a Moline young
man. is suffering from badly bruised
head today as the result of coming in
contact with the law in the shape OF
an officers club Saturday evening
Scherrer was at Huber's garden with a
number of his friends. They imbibed
rather freely, and before going home,
the crowd got into row among them
selves Officer Johnson appeared on
the scene at once and most OF the
young fellows took TO their heels
Scherrer and a companion named Fred
Keisch scorned 10 run from an ordin-
airy patrolman, and stood their ground.
The officer threatened TO arrest them.
whereupon Scherrer put his hand in
his hip pocket and remarked that there
would be something doing at the I'M
dertaker's if the attempt was made.
The officer was not to be bluffed in
that manner and he spranS to the at
tack and used his club with such good
effect that Scherrer and his compan-
ion were soon hors de combat Each
of them was fined s. and costs this
afternoon by Magistrate c. J. Smith,
Cigarcts Car.
\ conductor on the Elm street car
line is suffering with 4 very aggrava-
ted case of black eyetis today. The
black eye came about through his de
sire to enforce the rules of the COM
pany which say that no one is TO be
allowed to smoke in the street cars.
Some fellow from Moline was riding
on the car. and the conductor soon no
ticed that he was smoking in the front
end of the car. He told the young fell
! low that he was violating the COM
pany's rules, whereupon the smoker
said he had rules of his own about be-
ing interfered with. The conductor in
sisted on the cigaret being extinguish-
ed, and as last resort he took it out
of the fellows mouth and threw it
out the window. Several minutes Ia
ter, when he was busy with book and
pencil taking number from the regis
ter, the smoker approached him from
the rear and soaked him in the eye.
h and then made his getaway The eye
is Il beautiful black hue today. and its
owner is after the smoker with war
rant 10 serve Oh him
Overloaded the Rig.
John Mannan, a Davenport young
ster of about 10 years, hired a rig
from livery in Davenport Saturday
evening and invited three of his
friends to ride 10 Huber's garden with
him. When the owner of the horse
and rig learned from a friend of the
load which his horse was being made
] to draw. he Immediately sent a man
4 TO this side of the river to get the RIG
4 and take it back to Davenport. The
sporty youth refused TO give it up
/ however, and when the man tried tC
4 get Il hold on the horses head, the
/ horse was jerked back in an attempt
! to get away The jerk resulted in the
1 breaking of the shaft and caused the
arrest of the boy on the charge of dis
orderly conduct His father settled
with the owner of the rig for the dam
cages, and the boy will very likely bt
assessed a light fine on the charge o
disorderly conduct
Knife WicItIers Fined.
Each of the defendants who were dr
rested on the complaint of Fred Mard
horst and George Clark, who charged
them with assault with a deadl.
weapon, were fined $50 and costs Sa;
urday afternoon by Magistrate c. J
Smith. The three defendants were 81
Belgians. none of them being able Il
speak English. They used knives in