The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-01
YEARS Ago
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of a Century AGO.


visit 4 week or two.
Miss Helen Young entertained a
party of young folks in honor of Miss
Sue Young.
Miss Sue Young started for Syra-
cuse, Kansas, to make her future
home, having been elected as one of
the teachers in the public schools at
that place.
A severe drouth was on and corn
was being badly damaged by the hot
winds, it being predicted that unless
rain came soon the crop would be
almost an entire failure.
Sam Rogers, of Falls City, Neb.,
was visiting with old Leon friends
for a few days.
Mrs. N. w. Rathbun returned from
a two months visit with relatives in
New York.
After a period of almost two
months clerk E. J. Sankey finally
broke the boycott on marriage Ii
cences, and issued a license to Mr..
James Richardson and Miss Cora Ap-
plegate, who were married in Leon
by Justice w. H. Albaugh.
Alma Jackson, of Omaha, came in
to visit a few days with his family.
Rev. C. S. McElhenny, of Seymour,
was visiting at the home of Rev.
Cort, pastor of the Presbyterian
church.
Mrs. Henry Reuter- died after only
weeks illness, leaving her husband
and little son only few days old.
She was one of the most popular
ladies iQ Leon and her death caused
great sorrow to large number of
friends.
One of the twins of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. M. Pickering died, and the other
one was dangerously i'll.
One of those terrible crimes which
arouse community was committed
Saturday evening, when a nude brute
made an indecent assault on Mrs. J.
w. Noble, wife of a farmer living five
miles southwest of Leon. Mr.. Noble
was away from home assisting with
threshing at a neighbor's and about
dusk Mrs. Noble who was sitting in
the house was Mortified to see a
nude man approaching the screen
door. He burst in through the door,
but Mrs. Noble made such desperate
resistance that he soon fled. The
word was soon brought to Leon and
sheriff Honnold and marshal Moore
went to the depot to search for a
stranger who was reported to have
come to Leon from the direction of
the crime. They soon located him
lying among pile of ties, and placed
him under Arrest, taking him to the
county jail. He gave his name as
James Reynolds, native of Canada,
and said he recently came from Dem
yer to Kansas City, and then to AL
bany, Mo-, where he had been work
ing for some time as a farm hand.
He gave his age as 81 years, and
said he was married and had two
children living, girl of II and a boy
of 4 years. He appeared very reti-
cent and refused to give much of an
account of himself. 1t was reported
that a nude man had made his ap-
pearance at several other farm
houses between Davis City and Leon,
and the fellows trail was easily fol-
lowed. Mrs. Noble and other parties
came to Leon and identified the fell
low as the man who had been seen in
that locality. The prisoner was TAX
en- before Justice w. H. Albaugh,
where he protested his innocence.
and waived preliminary examination,
being bound over to the grand jury
under bonds Of $1,000, in default of
which he was confined in Jail. Pub
lie sentiment was running very high
and there was considerable talk of
a lynching. On Monday night two
parties of men approached the court
house square, and were provided
with ropes, but sheriff Honnold had
learned of their coming and it was
soon found that the man was not in
the Jail, the sheriff having quickly
removed the prisoner to some un-
known place, and the lynchers were
foiled in their purpose and finally
dispersed.