Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — FOUR WOUNDED IN AFFRAY. [ARTICLE]

FOUR WOUNDED IN AFFRAY.

lowa Marohai and Party of Horae Traders in Battle. Four persons were injured, one fatally, in a battle betweou horse traders and the authorities of the town of Eddyville, lowa. James St. John, one of tlie horse traders, was shot in the abdomen. Town Marshal John McHugh was shot in the arm, and the wound is serious. Harvey Pea was shot in the breast, ami his collar bone was shattered, but he will recover. He was among the horse traders. His wife was shot in the ankle. Officer McHugh attempted to arrest the traders, who were camped near the town. They hail been making more or less trouble am? were thought to have been implicated in minor thefts wthieh had been going on for some time. They lived in covered wagons, being itinerants, and followed the business of trading horses. When the marshal attempted to arrest them they resisted. More than a dozen shots "were tired by each side before they gave iu, and then only when St. John fell, suffering from a serious wound. St. John was taken to the hospital, and the others of’the gang are iu jail. There are seven or eight of them, including three women. The men were all armed. The battle took place at daylight.