Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — Curious Weapons. [ARTICLE]

Curious Weapons.

A member of the St. Louis bar tells the following story: A lawyer of Missouri, who shall be called Smith, was seized suddenly with an attack of temporary Insanity while traveling across that state. Stepping off the train at a county seat where he was quite unknown, he walked into the bank and requested the cashier to grant him permission to warm himself by the stove. The cashier, noticing that Mr. Smith was a stranger of culture and refinement who seemed confused about something or other, invited him back of the railing. Inside the railing, Smith savagely attacked the cashier with his fists and gave him a beating. Smith was arrested and then indicted by the grand Jury (at the time in session) for assault with . dangerous and deadly weapons.