Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
e. w. HALL, WHO HELPED FENCE
SQUARE, FILES CHARGE
AGAINST MRS. M'EWEN.
is ACCUSED OF ASSAULT;
HARPER SIGNS $500 BOND
Mrs. MeEwen Released to Appear
Monday Afternoon For Preliminary
Examination Marietta Admirers
Send Mrs. MeEwen eouquet-Seene
Of "Armed Intervention" Quiet.

Criminal law and officers to enforce
it have been rushed into the school
district row over the ownership of the
square in Marietta which broke into
acts Of possession by force and armed
intervention" Friday forenoon. County
Attorney Ray P. Scott, Justice Of the
Peace S. E. Peek, and Sheriff J. G.
Edgar We're summoned to uphold the
majesty Of the law when E. W. Hall
complained 10 the county attorney that
Mrs. Ida McEwen, armed and militant,
had assaulted him with a deadly wea-
pom, to-wit: one rife. bore % caliber.
Following this conference Hall signed
complaint against Mrs. McEwen in
Justice Peek's court in which he
charged her with assault with intent to
commit great bodily injury. Sheriff
Edgar summoned Mrs. McEwen over
the telephone to appear. She did so
this forenoon, accompanied by her
husband, James H. McEwen, president
of the board of school district No. 8,
that is claimant as owner Of the
square.
Gets Flowers; Gives Bonds.
That Mrs. McEwen is not without
warm partisan sympathizers who ap-
plaud her militancy, and who stand
ready to back her action with their
property, was shown when she and her
husband reached the justice court.
Waiting there for her. nesting
crisply and cody in a long white box,
were a sheaf Of pink carnations. On
the florists card were the names Of
the sympathizers and admirers, Mes
danes Nelson, Stout. BillHlan, Harper.
Stegall, Heckersmith, Goecke, Kendall
and Hall.
Robert Harper, a member Of the
was ready at hand to sign Mrs. Nc
was released to appear for the prelim-
mary examination to be held Monday
afternoon at O'clock.
Guarded Husbands Duty.
While leaving the court Mrs. Nc
Even opened the box Of flowers. Her
husband was by her side: He said:
You see the school board of which
I am. president, had been informed by
it's attorney that the posting of the no.
tice constituted legal possession of the
properly, anu
Yes, sir broke in Mrs McEwen,
"the lawyer said that when that notice
was posted the board had legal pos
session. and my husband was away.
and I saw those men putting up a
fence. and just went out and told
them
There, there. now, don't get excited,
dear soothingly remarked Mr. Nc
Even, laying his arm gently on his
wife's shoulder.
TT was like this" he added. turn
ing to the reporter, Il was not at home
as she says, and she saw Mr. Tinmons'
men coming there and putting up that
fence and she just decided that l.4y
rights and those OF the board had to
be protected. Understand there is no
hard feelings between Mr.. Timmons
and ourselves, none whatever"
While in the middle of this sentence
the door Of Mr.. Peeks office opened,
and Timmons himself strobe out and
down the stairs. without so much as a
glance at the trio in the hall
Marietta Quiet Over Night.
Marietta was quiet over night. There
were no new outbreaks Of factional
hotspurs. 1t was said no guard pa
troled the square during the night. But
today the school boards signs School
property. keep off, were down and
Timmons' hog tight fence was up just
as they We're left by the fence builders
Friday.
After the dust of armed interven-
ton" and retreat" had settled, and de-
tails Of what took place had taken