The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-05-23
twenty-five YEARS Ago
items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of a Century Ago.

Miss Bessie Finley went to High
Point to.spend the summer.
Mrs. H. j. Close and Miss jose
phine Parker were visiting at the
home of DR.. B. D. DeKalb, at DeKalb.
Greed Bobbitt took charge of the
Ward Hotel as landlord.
Miss Minnie Riordan, of Grand
River, was visiting with friends in
Leon.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Keeler died after an
illness of only two hours. She was in
apparent good health and had taken
her afternoon nap. About 5 o'clock
she was seized with convulsions, and
died within two hours.
Fred Rogers returned to his home
at Aurora, Neb., after visit with old
Leon friends.
Mrs. Maggie Wood left for Gaudy,
Neb., to make her future home.
An eight pound boy was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Hendrickson, of
near DeKalb.
James Shaw was preparing to
commence sinking a coal shaft at
DeKalb the following week.
J.. E. Leeper had engaged in the
manufacture of refrigeratOrs at
Pleasanton.
Mr.. Fred Himmel, of Chicago, Wis.,
tied over Sunday with friends in
Leon.
The Decatur county grand jury
were in session with w. C. Garrett,
of Center township, foreman, the
other members being A. N. Arney, of
Franklin, John Boyd, of Richland,
VIM. Pence of Grand River, and w.
C. Wheeler, of Burrell.4
Dr. Quigley, of Redding, who had
been convicted of conspiracy and
sentenced to term in the peniten-
tiary at Ft. Madison, made a sensa-
tional escape from sheriff ]. w. Hon.
mold who was bringing him from Ft.
Madison to Leon as witness in the
cases against Quigley's partners in
the conspiracy who were on trial in
the district court in this city, having
taken a change of venue from Ring
gold county. Sheriff Honnold with
Quigley in charge reached Charlton
all right, it being the fifth time he
had been over the road with Quigley
and he had never given him any
trouble or shown any desire to es-
cape. The sheriff and his prisoner
reached Charlton late at night and
boarded the night train for Leon.
Quigley had been telling the sheriff
that he did not have a hard time in
prison and that his time would soon
be up and the sheriff had no idea
that he would try to escape. They
took seats In the car together, sheriff
Honnold on the outside seat and had
placed his feet on the seat in front
of him with Quigley between him
and the window. Worn out by the
long trip to Ft: Madison and return
sheriff Honnold dropped asleep for a
minute after the train left the de-
pot at Charlton, and minute or two
later when the conductor tapped
him on the shoulder and asked for
his ticket, he was greatly surprised
to see that Quigley was missing.
The train was then less than mile
from Charlton, and it seems that just
as the train was leaving the "Y" at
Charlton Quigley had quietly stepped
over the sheriff's legs and walked off
the train. And to add to the indig-
nifty of the affair Quigley quietly ex-
changed hats with sheriff Honnold.
wearing the sheriff's fine Stetson off
and leaving MIN an old hat. Sheriff
Honnold returned to Charlton and
made a search for the escaped pris-
oner. but no trace of him could be
found. And although sheriff Hon
mold spent several hundred dollars in
an effort to capture the prisoner and
did not give up the search for sever
al years, Quigley was never recap
tured. Cn account of the escape of
Quigley the cases against King and
Pugsley had to be dismissed.