The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
WHlG WRITER
Was MURDERED
Former Quincy Newspaper Reporter
Was Killed by Former Quincy
Gambler in Kansas
City.
BOTH WERE
Fight Occurred in Saloon and One
Man Knocked Down Resulting
ip Death From
His Fall.

QUINCY, ILL.,, April PA killing
case over in Kansas City has for
its principals two former residents OF
Quincy, gambler and a newspaper
reporter. The reporter was Charlie
Mallon; the gambler is Horace Kel-
logg. Mallon is dead and buried and
Kellogg is in Jail awaiting trial on
the charge of murder
The trouble between the men that
eliminated in Mallon receiving fatal
injuries occurred in a saloon at
1903 Grand avenue at midnight OF
Thursday of last week. Mallon was
drunk and in quarrelsome mood,
according to witnesses. He was SO
badly under the influence of drink
when he entered the saloon that the
bartender refused to sell him any
thing intoxicating. He begged for
one drink and promised to leave
If it were given him, and finally, to
get rid of him, the request was
granted. After gulping down q glass
of liquor he lighted cigaret and
tossed the match in the face of
Horace kellogg.
An alteration followed, naturally,
kellogg also being drunk. kellogg
is said to have turned his back on
Mallon and received a blow in the
cheek so hard that it caused the jaw
to swell Kellogg, smarting under
the pain, wheeled around and dealt
his assailant a blow that sent Nal
lion sto the floor, and in falling his
| head struck. the foot railing in front
! OF the bar. He was found uncon
scious and an ambulance was called
lin it he was taken to the Walnut
street police station and there Dr.
! Charles Sandy made an examination
and ordred him held at the station
/ for safe keeping. Friday morning
DIR. d. r. Russell, who relieved DR.
Sandy. examined Mallon and found
4 that he was bruised about the head
and in a critical condition. He OF
4 dered him sent to the general hos
pital. ;,
i An autopsy was held on the bod,
of Mallon Saturday by DR.. Harry
Czarlinsky, a deputy coroner and
resulted in showing that the skul
OF the deceased was badly frac
! tured A coroner's inquest Wa'
thereupon ordered that the responsl
bility for the fatal injury might, ]
possible, be fixed In the meantlm
!, Kellogg was arrested and locked u
/. pending the decision Of the core
ner's jury.
! kellogg lived in Quincy for sey
{ eral years up to about five year
: ago and followed the profession
, the gambler. He then went to kar
; sas City and had been about forgo'
/ ten when he returned last winter
request came from the police chic
. Of his home city to the police her
i to arrest him and he was picked u
bv Chief Koch and Detective
i Bumster and Scharnhorst. Tn
!. charge made against him was tha
2 ne had passed checks on saloof
4 I1eepers or Kansas City drawn on
a hank of neighboring city in whlc
t ha claimed to have funds. Tn
checks were returned to the bank
4 of Kansas City where they had pee
i deoosited, the bank on which the
g were drawn having no money
o Kellogg's credit. 1t was understoo
; that after being taken back keilog
e succeeded in raising money SUI
J. Client to repay the saloonkeepers Wh
n had honored his checks and that tn
t. prosecution was dropped.
3 Mallon was In Quincy during u
J. latter part of 1905 and the ear
Y months of 1905 and worked as r
norter on the Whig. He was capab
IL and hustler but was not q
e pendable because of his weakne'
d for intoxicants. He was finally
4 out and after lingering a few da.
d and borrowing what money ne cou
IS from friends he had met in the cl
e he went away, returning to kansi
e CITY. whence he came. He was aho
1t 40 years old and had wife and seve
ID al children.