The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-29

'Ingov Hansen, ~25 years of age was
found in a semi-conscious condition in
a ditch a few rods south of the saloon
at Russell, ILL.,, on Sunday morning just
after half past seven clock and he
is now in the Kenosha Hospital suffer
ing from very severe injuries and the
physicians attending him declare that it
is difficult to predict the outcome of
these injuries. Hansen is carpen-
ter by trade and he had been working
on building in the neighborhood of
Russell for some time. He declares
that he does not know the manner in
which he met the very serious injuries.
He was brought to the hospital in an
ambulance just before eleven o'clock
Sunday morning. He was weak from
loss Of blood and seemed to have suf-
fered considerably from exposure.
When the call for the ambulance came
from Russell it was declared that
man had been struck by an automobile
but an examination of the wounds of
Hansen showed that it would have
have been made by an automobile. The
wounds indicate that Hansen had been
slugged and beaten, possibly kicked in
the face. The assault is thought to have
occurred some time after eleven O clock
Saturday night. Several rods from the
place where the badly bruised man was
found there is a great pool of blood
and it is thought that this was the
point where the assault took place.
There was no motive Of robbery as Han
sens money was still in his pocket and
few valuables he had in the way of
iewelry were not touched by the man
or men who assaulted him. The man
had great jagged wound over his left
eye which had laid open the flesh so
that the skull was exposed. He had an
other big cut in his cheek which had
torn his mouth all out of shape. There
were a half dozen other bruises on his
head and on other parts of his body.
Hansen lay moaning along the side of
the road early Sunday morning when
Emil Schultz opened the saloon for the
day and he hurried down and found
the injured man and at once called the
ambulance and physician. Hansen
was not unconscious but he was very
weak from loss of blood and 1T was
evident that he had been injured many
hours before. After he had been clean
ed up at the hospital an effort was
made to get the story of the assault
made on him but he declared that he
could say nothing. He intimated that
he had been struck by some one who
had crept up behind him as he walk
ed along the road toward his boarding
house but he declared that he could
give no satisfactory account as to the
manner in which the assault was COM
mitted. The report that he had been
struck by an automobile was either
wild guess of the people who found
him or an effort to cover up the real
facts of the case.
1t is just possible that there is TO-
mantle side of the assault on Hansen.
He is said to have paid considerable
attention to young lady residing in
the neighborhood and it is an open Sec
ret that these attentions had been re-
scented by some of the men In the
neighborhood.
1t is possible that after Hansen re-
covers a little from his injuries he
will be able to give some clearer state
ments Of the facts in the case. In the
meantime the Sheriff is making an in
vestigation into the case and arrests
may be made before the day is over
Hansen was not intoxicated at the
time of the assault and he had repu-
tation of being of peaceable nature
and it is certain that he did not invite
any trouble.
DR.. Spalding who is attending the in
jured man declared today that his
injuries were of a very serious nature