The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-28
George Esterio Seriously Wounds His
wife When She Refused to
90 to sIoomisid
With Him.
NEARLY BLEED TO DEATH
Condition Serious Today-Esteiio
Flees City on Frsisht Train
Police In Other Cities
Notified.

T sSSsssSos
Or. Il. A. klnnaman, attending
Mrs. George EstelIo, severely wounded
when murdeeo0siy assaulted with
clasp knife by her husband yesterday
afternoon, announced this afternoon
that the patient had = good chance TO
recover, unless Infection sets in. The
point % the knife penetrated through
the 1bdominai wall, but by hairs
breadth missed doing injury TO the In
testineo and ether abdominal osV1ns.
Il S~as neeessary 70 take ten stitches
TO eiess the zap.
This morning Chief q Police Hen
neman filed an information In the
court o. Justice James 8. Burrows.
against EsteIIo, charging him with A.
e1uit with Intent 70 kill. The infor-
nation will be used when the negro
IL caught. Should the woman die, the
information will be changed TO muir
der.
A near murder. and troubles for rel
atiyes. marked the return Of George
Estello, recently released from the
workhouse in Peoria. Illinois. to his
home in rag alley. His wife, Maggie
Estello. lies At the point OF death this
morning, AZ a result OF q great cut In
her side effected with large clasp
knife by George, and her brother-in
law. William Wilson lies In the city
jail, charged with disorderly conduct
and drunkenness, for the indecent
language he used to 4 telephone girl.
when trying to get the police station
Saturday night, that he might tell OF
Estello's return to Keokuk-
EsteIlo IL known to the local police
as a bad niger" He has criminal
record a yard long. in the record
books at police headquarters. and Is
well acquainted with the departments
OF other cities. His wife. Maggie. has
been In trouble before. too.
Last spring the Estellos left Keo-
kuk and went to Peoria. Before they
had been in that city very long,
George was In trouble. and was sen.
fenced to serve six months in the city
workhouse. Maggie returned to Kec-
kuk at once.
Since then she had served thirty
days in the local jail.
heIupVS0 S1tub0oy. =
Saturday, the police learned that
Estello was back and were looking
for him. In the afternoon. he sent
note by . friend to his wife. asking
her to let him come to see her. His
wife agreed and said nothing Of the
message to the police. or they could
came 30 her home in rag alley. II II
81 h1 - ~At r
allow troublesome characters to re-
main here.
He came ana tried to effect recon
Citation with his wife. However. she
was not anxious to live with him
again, and refused to go to Bloomfield
with him. saying You've been 50
mean to me. that won't go with
you"
At these words. the negro was In
furiated, and leaping towards her.
drew from his pocket. q big clasp
knife. and before she could move,
drove it far into her side, and cut 4
great cash eight inches long. and very
deep. She screamed in her agony.
and he fed.
Nearly eieeds to Death.
Neighboring denizens Of the rag al
ley district were attracted by the
noise, and called the police. DR.. H.
A. Kinnamann was called. He sewed
up the woman's wound Half an hour
elapsed between the time when the
wound was inflicted. and the arrival
OF the physician, and in the meantime.
the woman nearly bled to death. He
condition is serious.
: She was taken to the home Of her
sister, Mrs William Wilson, where
she now is.
The police combed the city yester-
day in a thorough but unavailing
search for Estello. He is believed to
have ridden away on freight train,
probably to some point in Missouri.
The police in all the nearby cities
have been notified to be on the look
ont for Estello. and to hold him on a
charge OF assault with intent to kill.
as an information charging him with
this will be filed at once by Chief Ct
Police Hennemann. If his victim diesS
as is not improbable. the charge will
be changed to murder.
Brother-inlaw Arrested.
William Wilson. the wounded wo-
mans brother-in-law was arrested
about 1870 Sunday morning. when he
used abusive and indecent language
to telephone girl. when trying to
reach police headquarters to give
word about Esteilo. Wilson il en-
pIoyed as a blacksmith at Bland's
establishment on upper
Main street. and phonei from there.
He was intoxicated when arrested by
the police, and is held on charge OF
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
On Even Grounds.
Beresford. 8. D., Republic: The
Sioux City Tribune says Mr.. Hughes
wants to supplsnt President Wilson.