The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
EXCITEMENT At
CARTHAGE DEPOT
Man Knocks Brakeman Down Twice
And Then Shakes Hands With
Him on Order Of
Wife.
HID FROM HUSBAND
Wife Had Been Gone From Home a
Couple of Days and Was Met
BY Ser Angry
Spouse.
HID FROM HUSBAND

The railroad depot at Carthage is
not always quiet place. Yesterday
the citizens who were watching the
trains go by had some excitement
when the Wabash train arrived. the
4 following from Carthage telling of the
incident
! AS train No 3 on the Wabash swept
into the Carthage station at 1890
O'Clock this morning a hundred peo-
pie who We're waiting on the platform
| were treated to an unusual occur
renee.
The train was nearing a stop when
q woman in one of the coaches thrust
her head far out of one of the win
dows and seemed to be scanning care
fully the crowd at the depot. Evil
IDENTIFY she saw someone she wished to
avoid, as her head was hastily with
drawn, and people in the car saw hel
hurrying to hide and lock herself in
| side the toilet compartment
The woman was Mrs. Fred Goodno,
wife of prosperous farmer living at
Lorraine, H., and the man she did
not want TO see on the depot platform
was Fred Goodno her husband With
the latter was Mrs. Goodno's father.
/ The two were in search Of her.
AS the train stopped Goodno step
/ ped briskly up to Eugene Shore. the
brakeman, as the latter alighted from
one of the coaches, and felled him
with crushing blow of his nst Shore
arose and was felled again. Mrs
4 Goodno then came running from her
hiding place and planted herself be-
fore Shore. while the crowd, wrought
/ to a high pitcl of excitement gath
cred about
Don't you touch him again" said
the woman, who is about 80 and come
ly in appearance. Her face was red
and her eyes blazed.
continued This man has given you
no cause for this"
Where were you Saturday night
and yesterday?' asked the husband.
II will not tell you, but you have
wronged this man Apologize to him"
Then the astonished spectators wit.
messed strange sight Goodno and
Shore shook hands. The former said
he was sorry for what he had done.
Better be-" commented the woman.
cor would have taken the same train
and gone on to Keokuk and quit you
for good.'
For the past two months Mrs.
Goodno has been receiving treatment
from DR.. Elsea an occulist, at Car
thage, making number of visits to
this city for that purpose One OF
these calls was Saturday morning.
When she left Lorraine it was expect
ed that she would return the evening
Of the same day When she didn't
come back and was absent Sunday.
her husband and the immediate rel
atives of her fathers family became
alarmed. This resulted in her father,
Mr.. Smith (she was formerly Miss
Sadie Smith, and her husband, Fred
Goodno, going to Carthage. There the
husband learned that she had been in
conversation with Eugene Shore a
Wabash brakeman, and that she pur-
chased a ticket Sunday night for Yer
sail1es, going cut on the train on
which Shore was brakeman These
facts led to the assault Frank I'm
glaub, ticket agent of the Wabash at
this point told of the purchase or the
ticket and Mrs Goodnos departure
eastward
After the assault on Shore. Mrs
Goodno was one of the coolest and
most Independent women imaginable
81 made Fred apologize It was
coming to Gene
Where have you been since leaving
Carthage" she was asked.
Il have told my husband that it is
none of his business, and it does not
concern anyone else she replied
without the least exhibition OF anger
The fact of the matter is she con.
tinued, while her husband stood by
and heard all, ~ intended to leave
him. We had quarrel Saturday
morning. had enough of the kind OF
married life we were leading. He re.
fused to be reasonable about a great
many things. I would have gone on
to Keokuk if it had not been for see
ing my father on the platform.
would have sought out work and lived
honorably.'
| Don't you feel sorry for Fred UNI
der the circumstances" she was
asked
/ 81 feel sorry for Gene (the brake
= NAM and that is WHY / caused my
a husband to apologize to him and
: shake hands This experience may be
a good for Fred, after all"
] 1t was then remarked to Mrs. Good
no that a PASSENGER on the train saw
: her board it at Bluffs.
"That is my huSineSS', she remarl,