Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-28
NON.ON|ON LENN0X
lABORER ASSAULTED
ARNOLD LUTTER, WAYLAID AND
KNOCKED DOWN IN DARK
NESS ON NEVADA STREET.
BELIEVES ASSAULT
WAS PREMEDITATEp
Lutter Says He Was Cross Examined,
Threatened and Followed BY Men
Who Work in centraI's Machine
Shop-Eye Gashed BY Blow and
Physician Says He May Lose Sight.

Physician Says He May Lose Sight.
Arnold Lutter, 709 East Nevada
| street, an aged German non-union lab
| orer employed by the Lennox Machine
| Company, was assaulted without pro-
vocation and received a serious injury
| which may result in the loss Of the
sight of his eye shortly after o'clock
| Wednesday night near the corner Of
Fourth avenue and Nevada street. Lut-
| ter thinks the assault was premedi.
tated.
Knocked Down in tho Dark
! While on his way home-going east
on Nevada street-Lutter met two men
! in the darkness who were approaching
him from the east. Without word
being spoken one Of them, Lutter be-
lieves it was the one walking on the
outside of the sidewalk hit him ter
rife blow squarely in the right eye,
/ telling him to the sidewalk.
When Lutter got up, a moment later,
still daZed from the blow, and with the
blood streaming down his face and
scattering the sidewalk, both men had
| disappeared in the darkness.
Eye Ball is Injured.
Because of mis- eye, blinded by the
wound and the blood, Lutter sought the
nearest physicians office, where his
wouAd was dressed. The doctor who
| attended the injured man said this
morning that a cash, half an inch
long had severed the eyelid, inverted
the cartilege and injured the ball. The
cut. which was perpendicular, extended
upward from the edge of the upper eye
lid. He said he would not be able to
! tell for a few days how serious the
injury to the eye ball would be. or
whether there was hemorrhage in
the eye itself. If hemorrhage resulted
| it is likely that the eyesight will be
impaired, and perhaps destroyed. The
eye was 'dilated by the physician to
prevent further trouble resulting from
| injury to the iris. The lower lid was
bruised, and small cash was cut in
the mans chin.
Confront "knucks" Were Used.
Il The physician is confident, from the
nature Of the injury, that the wound
was not made by a mans bare fist.
because of the absence of bruises
about the eye He believes metal
knuckles were used, judging by the
depth of the cut and other details of
the injured part. Luter is also in
chned to believe he was hit with
"knucks,'' but his recollection Of the
details of the assault are not clear, due
to the blow, the suddenness with which
it was delivered, and the darkness
Was Followed From Saloon.
According to the stold told Times
Republican reporter, who found Lutter
at his home this morning, there are
indications that Lutter was followed
from the Harry Vogel saloon, corner
Of Market and Third avenue at least
far enough to see the direction in
which he was going, and then a de-
liberate effort was made to meet him
as he was going home.
For two days, early in April Lutter
worked in the Iowa Central machine
shop, while he was laid off at the Len
nox factory There, he says. he saw
some of the men whom he met in the
Vogel saloon, one of whom threatened
him and who followed him short dis
lance. Either thru fear, or because he
did not know them, Lutter was unable
to give the names of any Of the men
whom he met in the saloon. He says
he would know some of their faces,
but in the darkness, where the assault
occurred. he was unable to distinguish
either Of the two men. He could no,
say from the short glimpse he had OF
the men, one of whom struck him, that
they were any of those who quizzed
hi min the saloon.
Was Threatened in the Saloon.
Four little children, Lutter says he
is the father of eight, prattled abou'
the room, one of the smallest gna wing
the end of half green banana, while
the father told the reporter in broken
/ English of what had happened at the
Vogel saloon.
II went to Harry Vogeps to cash my
check" he said. There were some
Iowa Central men there and they had
been talking To- me and had been ask
ing me all about Lennox's, what they
were doing down there, and what ]
was doing. They wanted to know II
I was running a lathe. told them ]
did little when had time, but that
did not do enough to hurt them. fol
was an old man.
After while some more men came
In, am pretty sure they were Contra
men too One of them began to ask
me all kinds of questions about the
shop (meaning the Lennox shop but
! some OF them I would not answer be-
! cause I told him if 1 did l would lose
my job. This man said, tthe way
4 feel I would like to knock you down.
Later on in his story Lutter said that
at the time he did not take the threat
seriously.
4 Labor Controls the Saloon.
They told the bartender continued
Lutter,' not to sell me any more. ask.
ed for a glass of beer, but the barten.
der would not give it to me.
Then I left the saloon and wen
south on Third avenue. That man wht
said he would like to knock me down
followed me out of the saloon and par
way to Market street, then he turned
around.
II cut across to Market street, wen
east to Fourth avenue and north to TIL,
Great Western depot, where stopped
a few minutes. I then went to the So.
loon by the depot, got glass OF beer
and then started home"
Could not identify ASSISTANTS.
THE two men came up from thu
east. 1 could see them coming but
was so dark / could not see who the!
were and paid no attention to them
When they got up to income Of then
hit me. There was nothing said whe1