Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1907 — A FIGHT IN THE POSTOFFICE [ARTICLE]

A FIGHT IN THE POSTOFFICE

A disgraceful fracas occurred in the postoffice here Thursday evening in which some blood was spilled and anamosities engendered that may result in something else. As near as we can ascertain the facts Mrs, F. B. Myers, wife of ex-postmaster Myers, was assisting temporarily in the office, and during the afternoon she and Comrade Fox, the mail carrier between the postoffioe and the depot, who was also back in the office proper, got into a dispute, and it is alleged that Comrad struck Mrs. Meyers, though not hard enough to hurt her seriously. Tyhen she went home to supper she told her brother,Bert Hopkins, of the occurrence and he came down town looking for someone about Comrad’s size. He found him in the postoffice, back in the mail distributing part, and, a fight was at once started. Comrad is said to have got a black eye and Bert fell against the iron railing and cut a bad gash in his forehead which bled profusely. At this writing no arrests have been made, although some people seem to think that as the fracas occurred in the mail distributing department that Uncle Sam may take a hand in the matter. Mr. Meyers is out of town or perhaps he might have tak,en the matter of avenging the alleged insult to his wife in his own hands.