Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29

I later claimed it. Rich claimed that
the car was taken without his knowl-
edge and when Neither did not return
with it he was sought by police. When
Methe- was arrested he protested his
Innocence. He claimed that the car
was his rightful property.
Des Moines.
Ames B. Gray, contracting carpen-
ter, committed suicide Saturday with
gas. He Is said to have been despon-
dent because of protracted illness. His
body was found by his wife at a. m.
when she detected the doors of escap-
ing gas from an upstair bedroom. They
had been sleeping on the porch be-
cause of the heat At a. m. Gray,
after sleepless night, went upstairs,
unscrewed the gas fixtures, and per-
mitted the gas to escape from half
inch pipe. DR.. George Woods who
was called after the body had been
found, said he had been dead three
hours. Gray was AZ years Of age and
a brother Of James Gray. business
agent Of the Carpenters Union.
Des Moines.
Lamoine Trindle, the 14-year-o1d
son of A. C. Trindle. the postmaster
Of Van Meter, was drowned about
O'Clock Sunday afternoon n the Rae
coon river. Young Trindle and some
other boys went swimming in the river
short way north Of the town. For
some reason the boy went down and
never came up. AS soon as his COM
panions missed him they gave the
alarm and men at once began to drag
the river. hurry call was sent to
Des Moines and DIR. Guy E. Cliff, the
pS NV N1NycS toto L. -
the accident in an automobile. He
took pulmotor in hopes of restoring
life in case the body had not been
found at o'clock, an hour after he
was missed.
Fairfield.
At last Fairfield has an amuse-
ment park where bathing may be en-
joyed. Sunny Side Amusement park
will be formally opened next Wednes-
day The city is greatly indebted to
Henry Humphrey for thus opening to
public use the Humphrey pond and
grounds surrounding it. Mayor spratt
and the city council have done most
commerdable thing In arranging with
Mr.. Humphrey SO that the city fur
nishes free bathing to the boys and
girls under fourteen years of age on
one afternoon. from until o'clock
each week. Tuesday will be Municipal
day and to be resident of Fairfield
will be all that the boys and girls will!
need, besides the permission Of their
parents.
Fort Madison.
William Hall, the colored convict
whose attack on Assistant Deputy
Warden Ben Syker with an ak was
cut short with a shot in the arm Tues
day, has developed no i'll effects from
his wound and thus far he has shown
no inclination to return to his rampage
which smacked of the sensa tonal He
is still registered as prison hospital
patient and his behavior is strikingly
meek. Just what punishment will be
melted out to him for his threat to
cleave the officials head has not been
announced. Hall has had quite a pris-
on record. He was still under parole
bars when he committed the theft that
landed him in the prison for his pres
ent term Of five years. He had been
living at Fort Madison in 1912 when he
touched an old soldier, Joshua Hardy,
who had come to-town from West
Point to draw his pension 1t was an
open and shut case and Hardy pleaded
guilty.
Davenport.
Edwin Walker, aged IA, is in st.
Luke's hospital, near death as re-
suit Of being thrown from his bicycle
when he collided with a trolley on the
viaduct leading to Rock Island about
a. m. Saturday. Walker was picked
up and brought to the local hospital
and physicians discovered he had sus-
tanned fracture Of the skull at the
base Of the brain. DR.. p. A. Bendixen
said that his chances for recovery
were slight. The youth was returning
from the home OF a sister, Mrs. Hat
tie Church, i5iii Second avenue,
Rock Island. He had Just assembled
the incline and passed the Orders
when the car overlook him. It is I'M
derstood the chain came off the
sprocket wheel and It stopped as the
car was passing. This tilted the wheel
toward the car and the impact threw
him to the pavement. Young Walker
has been in Davenport but 4 few days,
coming here from Batavia, Ia, to
spend his summer vacation. He had
been staying with his sister Miss Beth
Roberts, at liz East Sixth street and
with Mrs. Church In Rock Island.