Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1914 — WHEATFIELD BUTCHER GOES ON RAMPAGE [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD BUTCHER GOES ON RAMPAGE

George Hoehn Lodged in Jail Alter Desperate Fight With Town Marshal, “Debs” Fillmer.

George Hoehn, the butcher at Wheatfleld, said to be a fine man when sober, is reported to have tanked up. Wednesday and to have gone on the rampage when Town Marshal, “Debs” Fillmer, ordered him to be quiet. Fillmer then tried to arrest Hoehn, who made desperate resistence and is reported to have, chewed the index finger almost off the marshals left hand. The marshal deputized others and it became necessary to put a rope about Hoehn’s neck and fairly drag him into the jail before he could be locked up.

Hoehn is said to have defied not only the marshal hut all of the people of the town. Albert Keen, trustee of the township, slipped up behind him and lassooed him with a big rope and he was dragged 'fighting every inch into the calaboose. When released in the small improvised bastile he tore the bars from the windows and wrecked the inside. Two men stood guard at the windows of the jail, one with a revolver and another with a short crowbar and Hoehn was told that if he put his head out of the window it would be all up with him. He wisely kept inside and it was about 1 o’clock at night when he had quieted down. Hoehn is a very large and powerful man and the marshal is also a large man. The exeitement was intense in Wheatfleld and even extended all over the north part of the county and ipjyiy people gathered on the streets to watch the fight between the enraged butcher and the town marshal and his deputies. presumably this is one of the advantages of having a well-regulated saloon in Wheatfleld.