Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-05
MORE WITNESSES
WANTED BEFORE
CORONER'S JURY
Investigation of Death of Albert
Nelson Will Be Contin-
ued for Time.
AFTER FURTHER EVIDENCE
One Testifies That Dead Man Was Az
sressor and Knocked William
Deeters Down First.

More Witnesses to the fierce stab
bling affair Saturday night, which re-
suited in the death of Albert Nelson,
are wanted by the coroner's jury. At
the inquest held yesterday afternoon
at the Knox undertaking parlors.
number of those who saw the fight
of their testimony, it was decided to
continue the quiz, the jury to recon
vene at the call OF Coroner R. c. J.
Meyer, Moline.
SKIP OFT.
Ii is known that as many as 10 or
II were in the saloon on the night
of the assault when William Deeters
slashed Nelson with a pocket knife,
but some of these have evidently fed
and ali efforts to locate them has
failed There is one Davenport man
who is said to- have been in the saloon
at the time. and who was a personal
friend of Deeters, who may know more
about the cutting affray than anyone
else. He is said to have taken Deet-
ers part in the quarrel and he is
wanted by the coroner to tell what
he knows about the fight and who
started it. Therefore the inquest was
continued and may be called together
tomorrow.
FATHER Is HEARD.
The jury selected to investigate the
case was composed of Fred Apple.
quist, S. S. Hull, f. W. Sullivan, G.
B. Jackson, F. E. Morgart and H. j.
Churchill The first witness was An
drew Nelson, father of the dead man
residing at 1921 Ninth avenue. who is
employed as a car inspector for the
! Rock Island road. He stated his son
had been employed at the tool com
pany and previous to that worked or
railroad car repairing. He said that
his sons wife was dead He knew
nothing of the fight until called to the
hospital.
DR.. c. F. Freytag told of the in
ouiries which Nelson had received anC
i said that death was caused by the
loss of blood There were six distinc
] "OuiAhCs NLlC ItlOSl SSNGlS Dtlls
cash in the abdomen, which
exposed part of the bowels Othe
wounds were on the shoulder, hip, lef
leg and other parts of the body. Dr.
w. D. Snively substantiated him.
! EYEWITNESS.
An eye witness to the fight followed
Irving L. Lynch, 1862 Sixteenth
street, at whose place Nelson roomed
told of going to Suttern's saloon, 1872
Second avenue about 1870 Saturda.
night, and finding a big crowd assem-
bled The entire party was orderer
out at closing time. lie heard tn
argument between the two men an
saw the fight He stated that Nelson
said Deeters had kicked him in til
stomach and that after Nelson ha
been taken to his room, an investiga
ton showed that the intestines ha
been punctured and the trousers file
with blood. Physicians were Gale
and the man rushed to the hospital
Mrs. Rose Lynch, mother Of the pre-
ceding witness, stated that she ha
known Nelson for seven years an
that he was a steady and industriou
worker, and that his only fault wa
that he drank too much when lou
with the boys
EESIES KNOWLEDGE.
Denying any knowledge of what tn
struggle between his two customer
was about, August Sutern, salooI
keeper, told of ordering the entir
party out at closing time. He sal
he did not know of the discussio
until the officer awakened him at hi
home some time later
One of the most important witnesse
was w. NJ. Hoffel, 407 Second avenu,
trucker employed at the Milwaukee
He says the heated argument aros
over who. received the most wage.
81 thought they were kidding" d.
clared the witness, until blows wer
struck and then | ducked and stoo
behind the oil company's sign wher
] saw Nelson hit Deeters in the eyt
Deeters was knocked down Nelso
was the aggressor ali the way Ne
son once cried: For Gods sake, oh, fc
mercy's sake, take him off. He's xii
ing me.
julius Hartz, Night Captain Kran