Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1912 — ESTATE CAUSES MAN’S THRASHING [ARTICLE]

ESTATE CAUSES MAN’S THRASHING

J. M. Tudor Attacked by His Brother-In-Law While Looking After Interests in CUnton, HL . Vj * J. M. Tudor, who makes his home here with his father, Nelson Tudor, north of town, arrived home Wednesday night from Clinton, 111., where he had been looking after the interest of his two children in an* estate. He came home considerably beaten up and willingly reported the circumstances to a reporter for The Republican. Mr. Tudor’s wife is dead. She was interested in an estate at Clinton and her two children will come in for her share. They were not provided for in the will and it was broken and Mr. Tudor was properly seeing that his children got what was coming .to them. Marion Halsey, whose wife was a sister of Mr. Tudor’s deceased wife, took exception to Mr. Tudor’s interest in the case and Monday evening attacked him, so Mr. Tudor says, Wholly unexpectedly, severely beating him up. There was a gash across his scalp that required three stitches to close, and his left eye was badly bruised and blackened. Mr. Tudor is a large man, but a few months ago underwent a surgical operation and he has not recovered his strength fully. He caused Halsey’s arrest and saw him tried and fined before returning to his home here.