Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-21
KNOXVILLE GIRL
ALMOST A VICTIM
UNKNOWN PARTY DISCHARGES
SHOTGUN; SKATERS WIN.
DOW PANE.

Knoxville, Aug. 19.-This section
has been the scene of a number of ex-
citing and unusual events the past
few days, the latest one happening on
the Maloney farm six miles northwest
of here. Some one discharged single
barrel shotgun through the window
and came within two inches of hitting
Miss Mary Maloney while she was w.
ing In bed. The shot shattered the
window glass, struck the pillow and
missed her head by only a few inches.
The deed was done between and 10
p. m. The sheriff went out and found
the shotgun in a cornfleld a short dis
lance from the house.
James Pringle, Civil war veteran,
met with q violent death at Des
Moines while he was driving farm
wagon at point south of the Rock
Island tracks in the capital city,
when his wagon overturned. Mr..
Pringle was so badly injured that he
died at the hospital Wednesday and
will be buried at Knoxville today. He
lived at Valley Junction.
While Miss Josephine Smith and
her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Agan, were
returning from visit at Sylvis, Ill.,,
where they had been on a ten days
visit with their sister, Mrs. John Err
Finger, on the road between Iowa
City and West Liberty, they noticed
that something seemed to be the mat
ter with the steering gear. On reach
ing the point where the accident oc-
CURED the steering gear refused to
work and the car went into small
ditch and turned turtle. Mrs. Agan
escaped with only few bruises, but
her sister was not so lucky. She was
caught under the car and held there
until It was lifted of by passersby.
When an examination was made 1t
was found that she had a wrenched
elbow and a badly injured leg. The
ladies came home on the train today
leaving the car at Iowa City to be re-
paired.
The body of Clarence Dawson Is be-
lieved by his relatives and friends to
be somewhere in the Des Moines riv-
er near Tracy, fifteen miles east OF
Knoxville. A telephone message
reaching the young mans parents
here stated that his grip had been
found in the middle Of the Bellefon-
tame bridge by a Mr.. Benscoter. Let
tiers were found in the grip addressed
to Mr.. Dawson. He had been In Tracy
since the latter days of July and had
teen boarding at the. home OF his
trother-in-law, Robert Current, and
had been working on the railroad. II
is known that he and his wife had
been having some domestic trouble,
but they were not divorced. The
divorce proceedings had been put of
several times. His wife had been at
Tracy for some time past, living with
her parents, and had the two little
boys with her. Whether or not they
had had any recent trouble is not
known as yet. The grip was FOUND
in the middle of the bridge but farther
than that nobody knows whether
Dawson is in the river or ran of, leav-
ing the grip on the bridge to mislead
people. A number of Knoxville men,
together with the young mans father
and two brothers, are dragging the
river in the hope Of recovering the
body. II the dragging is unsuccessful
the river will probably be dynamited.
Dawson has seemed to be a steady
worker. we'll liked by all people and
It is hard for them to believe that ne
committed suicide. No notes what
ever have been found so far.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Mrs. J. H. Tucker still
remains unsolved Mrs. Tucker was
last seen on August 4 at Knoxville.
When she left home she left all the
clothes In the tub ready for washing,
Women of the neighhorhood became
greatly excited, fearing she was dead
in the house. A day or two ago the
officers were interested, the ravlnes
around the house were searched ana
and finally the house, where severai
letters were found. One letter was
addressed to her daughter and IN eacn
letter she limited very boardly that
she contemplated suicide. Poisoned
chocolates were found in bureau
drawer with note saying that who
ever found them should leave them
alone as they had been sprinkled win
strychnine, A chemical test later
proved that they were poisoned. or
f1cers are working on two clues. one
that she had taken an east oounu
train at the Flagler station f1ve mlles
east OF here, going to OttumWa ana
the other that she LETT by way OF Mel
cher.
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