The Detroit times., 1911-01-21
DODGE AND 0AKMAN
NABBEO ON CAP|As
Arrested in Connection With $25, 600
Damage Suit by T. J. Mahon
Whom They Beat Up,

Robert oskman and John f. Dodge
were arrested. Friday. on cap,as
secured by Attorney Thomas j. Ma
hon. in a suit for $4,000 damages
for the assault committed upon Mahon
in Louis Schneider's saloon. Jan. 5,
0akman and Dodge were released by
Judge Murphy on $4,000 bail each.
The affidavit, on which the capias was
issued follows. In part:
"On Jan. 3, 1911, between the hours
of and 10 o'clock In the evening,
Robert Oakman and John F.. Dodge,
with force and arms accosted and
violently attacked this deponent In
the saloon conducted By Louis
Schneider, 116 Woodward avenue.
where this deponent then was and
while this deponent was conducting
himself In lawful and iaw-abiding
manner, said Robert Oakman and
John +. Dodge, without any cause or
provocation whatever. then and there
unlawfully laid hold OF this deponent
and with great force and violence.
said Robert Oakman grasped depon'
ent by the throat with his hands and
choked deponent. and then The said
Robert Oakman and John +. Dodge
with their clenched fists dealt this
deponent several violent blows on the
jaw, behind the ears, on the nose and
eyes and face and each struck blow
after blow upon deponent's face and
head, until deponent fell unconscious
to tho floor OF the barroom.
while this deponent was there
PROSTATE he regained his senses and
attempted to reach his cane, where
upon Dodge, with q vile oath, grab
bed the cane, and the said Robert
Oakman and John +. Dodge then and
there with force and arms In and w
on him, this deponent, did with their
feet and deponents cane, again beat,
bruise, wound, ill-treat and commit
battery and assault with intent to do
great bodily HARM, less than the
crime OF murder upon this deponent
and with their heels kicked deponent
several times In the face, head and
body, and did strike him several
violent blows with deponent's cane,
which deponent has been obliged for
several years to carry owing to his
crippled condition, being without
both lower limbs, ana deponent says
that the brutal and altogether un.
justifiable assault and beating by the
said Oakman and Dodge Is a matter
OF the utmost humiliation, mortifica
ton and chagrin and shame to de-
ponent, as he was for a long space OF
time kept against his will upon said
barroom floor, and not even permit.
ted to have the use OF his cane In al
tempting to arise.
'Deponent further says that he re-
gained his equilibrium, and while his
face appeared like raw beef, his blood
was streaming from a deep cut frac.
tional part of an inch under his eye,
and other various wounds covering
his entire face. Robert Oakman came
up to him and remarked, Il did not
know you were SO badly injured as
that I'll get cab for YOU Despon-
ent said, Go away from me, you
brute, / won't have anything to do
with you. l will call a cab myself.
Thereupon Oakman again grabbed
deponent by the throat and pressed
him against the bar, exclaiming,
Damn you, I'll make you.' While n
this position, John +. Dodge came up
and, uttering an oath, exclaimed, Il
don't care n you have only two wood
en- legs, / have a damn good mind to
beat you up again and will
by reason whereof this deponent
became and was Ill. sore, lame and
disabled from attending to his affairs
and business as a lawyer for long
space Of time, to-wit; from thence TO
the present and still remains so dis
abled, confined to his bed, Ill, sore
and incapacitated to attend to his az
fairs, and suffered and still suffers
great bodily pain and mental anguish
and distress, and In consequence of
such beating. bruising. wounding and
ill-treating this deponent."
The afiidavit Is supported by anoth-
er by Attorney Edmond Joncas. who
was with Mahon and was also at