Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-09-21
NINE MEN IN
CLUBBING PARTY
Six Arrested, Three Tried, All
Held to Answer in Circuit
Court for Assault
E. PHALEN RUNS AWAY
President jacobson of Paper Makers
Union With Five Others Bound
OVer-TWO Others Are Wit
neSSeS

The story of the assault on the two
paper makers, Matthew Culver an(
Joseph StOffels, was completed il
Justice Reeves court Wednesday, ex
cept for the last chapter which will
he written in the circuit court at the
term which begins October 18th.
1t must be understood that the evi
dence is all One-Sided, that the defense
has put in no testimony and that the
story is the story of the state only
The state AYERS that there was an as
Sault. But that the men charged
with the Offense will put up a hard
fight is fully understood and realized.
While the defense put in no evi-
dence and necessarily only one side
of the case was shown in the prelimi-
nary hearings, it is known that the
plea will be that the men went to
meet the strike-breakers for the pur-
pose of talking to them and getting
them by peaceable methods to join the
strikers, but StOffels pulled his quart
bottle of whislley and as he said in
his evidence. started to fight" In
other words it was fight not an as
sault and started by StOffels, accord
ing to the defense.
Nine men, so the evidence shows,
participated in the clubbing party.
Six men are under arrest, all charged
with the same Offense, assault with
intent to do great bodily harm.
There were ten men who went out
to the scene of the assault, one of
them Elmer PrOuty, testified that he
pulled OUT when he saw the clubs
and was not present when the assault
occurred and no warrant has been is
sued for him.
The men under arrest are:
The Men Implicated
WILBUR JACOBSON, president of
the Paper Makers Union, Ladysmith
Local No. %. Examined on Saturday
and held for trial
FRED RAHUT, financial secretary
Paper Makers Union, examined We'd
nesday. Held.
ALBERT (Butch) STRANSKY, one
of the committee waiting on the
management OF the MenaSha Paper
Co. with demands which precipitat-
ed the trouble, examined Wednesday,
Held
PAUL BARFKNECHT, waived
examination Saturday Held to circuit
court
WM PHALEN. waived examina-
tiOn. Held
WM. DEGE waived examination.
Held.
Another for whom Il warrant has
been issued but so far has not been
located, is:
ED C'Irish") PHALEN. one Of the
Paper Makers Union committee.
Two men have appeared as witness
es for the state who were on the
scene but who have not yet been ar
rested. They are:
ED. BEEIREND, lineman for Rural
Telephone Co.
ARTHUR KILGORE.
The tenth man who ''beat it, for
home was
ELMER PROUTY, who also appear
ed as Il witness for the state, and who
when he saw the gang with clubs,
took walk down the road"
Story Evidence Tells
The evidence produced tells the
complete story of the Tuesday night
assault. Matthew Culver, Joseph St0f
felS, and Arthur TessendOrf, three Ot
the men who came here to fill the
places of the Paper Makers Union
men who when they made demands
on the company were discharged
walked to Tony Tuesday evening. Sep
tember IL, took three whiskeys an(
three beers each, bought quart an(
pint of whislley, started home al il
o'clock on foot.
jacobson, Rahut, Behrend an(
Stransky were at the other end of tn,
bar
They drove to town, Behrent
Butch" and Rahut, in one car The.
stopped at the Phalen house, did no
find them, came on down town, stop
ped at restaurant, then went to Ton
Bakers. Butch got out of Behrend'
car into JacobsOn's, Dege was alread
there. Behrend drove down to tn
phalens, picked up Irish" and Bill
and reached the appointed meetin
place first Jacobson got Barfknecht
KilgOre and PrOuty and arrived later
Both cars were hidden on the sid
road as agreed and they met tn
four already there. Then Prout