Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-12
Southern Io1ua Items


was hitched hurriedly and her husband
rushed her to DR.. ,Russells office with
all the speed the horse could summon
BY the time she arrived here she was
Lgasping and was blue in the face. The
doctor made a hurried examination and
Mrs. Mehmen quickly recovered. 1t
was close call and gave all parties in
terested bad scare.
iDes Moines.
Il have roamed the country for four
teen months in an effort to clear my
mind of the crime which haunts me
and wish to make a confession" The
above statement was made by Michael
Cunningham, aged AZ years. who Is be-
ing held by the police pending an in
vestigation. Cunningham approached
and officer and requested that he be
placed under arrest and later told the
police that more than a year ago he
stole 81 and gold watch from his en-
ployer, farmer. and then disappeared.
He declared that brooding over the
theft had caused him sleepless nights
and was undermining his health and
that he wished to pay the penalty OF
his crime.
Muscatine.
The J. Il. Wacker Company, Of Will
ton, was before Judge John A. Rowan,
in Muscatine recently. on the charge or
selling adulterated clover seed. The
charge was filed by State Food In
spector NJ. q. Flynn, who brought the
seed and had it examined by Miss Mary
Belle Talcott. state seed analysist for
the food and dairy commission. Miss
Talcott claims to have found 20 per
cent of impurities and she will be the
chief witness for the state. Mr.. Wack-
er claims that the seed vas sold to
him for pure clover seed and that he
did not know that 1t was adulterated
when he disposed of 1t. fine OF 81
was assessed from which an appeal
will be taken
Washington.
Richmand vicinity was again startled
by the news of q suicide Thursday aft
ernoon. Max Whitmire, living a half
mile north of the village took dose OF
strychnine and died in about an hour
after. Nothing unusual had been no
tticed in his conduct. In the after
noon he went upstairs and in short
time his wife heard q noise and on go
ing up found her husband in convul-
sions. She called q neighbor man In
and Mr.. Whitmire told him he had
taken poison. He was So years old and
leaves a wife and two children. About
Z year ago Mr.. Whitmire was taken to
the hospital at Mt. Pleasant for treat
ment on account of an attack of in
sanity resulting from dependency and
In six months was SO much improved
that he was allowed to go home. He
seemed quite we'll until about a month
ago when he again became Respondent
and had many imaginary troubles.
Boone.
A few days ago Adopt 500 pounds o!
sheet lead and lead pipe disappeared
from the premises Of the Gables. south
| Of the coiieIe campus IN Ames. G. L
Waltmire, who has charge Of the
wrecking of the old building and the
construction Of the new, decided tc
play detective. He learned Of junk
dealer who had been looking longingly
at the pile in the yard. Parties west
| OF the campus had seen the junk dealer
going west Still farther west a Boone
man had seen tho duslsy looking in
dividual coming to this city. Mr.. Walt
mire took an auto for Boone and Wis
lifted the different shops and learned
where sales had been recently made
At the second place visited he found
the lead which had been purchased
IRON. a dealer. The matter was pre-
/ scented to the officers and they gave
1aaluable assistance and the thief VIII
! 30 caught soon. ~