The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
TALESOF THE TOWN

A, quarter of a century ago,
Hugh Knuckey, a very humble
herdsman, resided with a rather
frisky wife and several children
at Twelfth avenue w. and Fourth
st. Near them, lived Jorgan
Jeronimus and his family. .Jorgan
was a skilled cigar maker who
wrestled strenously with Old John
Barleycorn instead Of rolling the
smokes, thereby compelling a most
estimable wife to support the fam
lily by taking in washing.
The Knuckey tribe owned some
pigeons. Three oHthem suddenly
disappeared and they charged Jor-
gan Jeronimus with killing the
cooling birds. That made Jorgan
Jeronimus very angry and, when
angry, he was fiend incarnate.
Tuesday, September 10. 1893, at
about 4 p. M, herdsman Knuckey,
with help of little Annie and Eliza,
was penning his herd. Suddenly
he heard the whistle of a bullet
and felt the missile Craze his
cheek.
Quickly looking around, he saw
Jorgan Jeronimus standing at a
window about 200 feet distance
with a rifle in his hand. In an
instant he raised the weapon and
fired again.
Little Eliza Knuckey, IL years
old, fell to the ground with a
scream and with a bullet in her
side. The father carried the girl
into the house and summoned a
doctor. Jorgan Jeronimus fled
with his rifle and disappeared into
the nearby woods.
It was believed that Eliza Knuc-
key would die. DR.. S. G. Max
we'll failed to find the rifle ball.
The next day the girl was better
and the bullet was found under
the skin Of her back. It had
struck a rib and followed that to
point near the spine. She event
ually recovered.
Search failed to turn up Jorgan
Jeronimus but, at about 6 p. M,
Sept. 20, he was seen walking on
Superior St., between Third and
Fourth avenues W., with his wife
and daughter. When patrolman
Bob Smollett arrested the fugitive.
he showed great surprise and ex.
pressed ignorance of why he
should be arrested.
The vindictive German was ar.
raigned before municipal judge
Powell, September 81, 1893. The
hearing was held Sept. %. The
defendant was not represented by
counsel and, with fine German
cunning, he pretended that nc
could not understand English
therefore one Banks acted as in.
terpreter. Jeronimus was fine
large man, witt excellent features
and head Of noble proportions,
John Barleycorn kept that head
sadly muddled much of the time
Jeronimus was held to the grand
jury under charge of assault in
the third degrees Later, if mem.
Dry fails not, he was found gully
and given a shor, sentence.
When in liquor, Jeronimus was
a fiend incarnate. On one occa.
sion, when he passed the coward
the cow gave long bawl. That
so incensed the man that he ran
for his rifle and shot the animal
dead. On another occasion, chick,
ems in a coop cackled yhen Jer.
onimus passed by. That so anger.
ed him that he took his gun and
shot every one of the fowls. Al
one time, he also served a jail
sentence for assault when under
the influence of liquor.
A skillful cigar-maker, a useful
citizen and kind husband were
ruined by the ravages Of that
Prince of Slackers, Old John Bar.
leycorn. Jorgan Jeronimus has
gone to his reward but his mem.
Dry remains as sad warning to
the rising generation.
Sunday, Sept. II, 1893, at 3 &c
p. NJ, a street car jumped over the
approach to the ship canal at the
foot of Lake avenue and took a
header into the waters Of the
canal. Ned TenEyck was not
there to rescue the trolley car
therefore it turned on it's side
foated moment and gently sank
in twenty feet of water. Later on
it was fished out and put back into