Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-08-13
SALEM WHISKEY RESPONSIBLE
FOR ROW ON POLK COUNTY
SIDE OF RIVER FRIDAY
AFTERNOON.
ONE MAN Is BEATEN UP
Fred Lind. Said to DC Parolcd
Convict. Gets Worst of Dispute
With Two Companions; latter to
Face Grand jury is Courts De-
cree: May Have Been HOld-up.

II. Bristow and Clifford Young
two young men who claim Portland
as their home, were bound over to the
next session of the Polk county
under $500 bonds upon the charge
of assault, following a preliminary
examination held this morning in
Dallas. They are now in Jail in de-
fault of bail. The complaining wit
ness is Fred Lind who bears scar
on his forehead as visible testimony
that he was hit and hit hard.
The trouble occurred on the Polk
county side of the Willamette river
in West Salem on Friday afternoon.
According to the story told by wit
nesses at the preliminary eXamina-
ton, Bristow and Young purchased
quart bottle of Whiskey in a Salem
saloon and prepared to go to the
river on a swimming expedition.
Lind asked to accompany them and
the three went to the river and hired
boat in which they started to row
across the, stream to the Polk county
side. When they reached a log boom
the boat was upset and all of the
three plunged into the water, Lind,
being the most intoxicated, getting
the most complete ducklng,
Fight on the Shore.
Up to this point the testimony of
the three principals substantially
oo h,,f this tiF11n II diff
fers widely. Lind claims that the
others beat him over the head with
the bottle for some unknown cause
while Bristow and Young declared
that Lind had been begging for more
whiskey and threatened to kill them
if he didn't get it. They say that
they thought he might have a revol
yer and tapped him over the head
before he could use it.
The testimony of Lind and of three
eye-witnesses strongly tend 30 show
that Bristow and Young were the ag-
gressors. They say that he was beat
en- over the head as he lay on the
ground, helpless because of his in
toxication and the wet clothing, and,
that one of the men afterward threw
the bottle at the recumbent figure of
Lind striking him in the back Pre-
vious to this, Bristow and Young had
ordered three boys who were eye-wit-
nesses to the row to beat it, which
they did, but hid in the bushes near
by and watched the fight All three
of the boys told a very straight story
regarding the affair and it evidently
impressed the court.
May Have Been Hold Up.
The questioning of the witnesses
by Deputy District Attorney Joseph
E. Sibley brought out the possibility
that the state may attempt to estab-
lish a charge of "hold-up" against
Rristow and Young 1t is admitted by
Lind that he had a few dollars in his
possession when he met the other two
men in the Salem saloon, but when
he awakened i'm the Salem hospital
where he was taken after the fight,
he did not have a cent The eye-wit-
nesses referred to heretofore said that
they saw one of the men searching
Lind's pockets as he lay on the bank
of the river.
1t is claimed that Lind is a paroled
convict and had been working on the
Mcmahon ranch near Waconda.
Deputy District Attorney Joseph F..
Sibley represented the state and Geo.
F. Skin was appointed by the Court
to defend the prisoners.