Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — GENERAL ANO STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ANO STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. _ \ ■ - ■- A SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities an<J Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. GOODLAND JUNK MAN STABBED Absolom Stevens Attacked by People He Befriended. Goodland, April 4. Absolom Stevenson, 65, a junk buyer, was perhaps fatally injured here last night when he was struck in the head with a railroad coupling pin and stabbed with a knife. He accuses Mrs. Pearl Bird as his assailant. Stevenson came here for a few months ago from Attica and engaged in the junk business. He was quite successful and it is said had a little money saved up. Last Friday D. K. Bird, his wife, Pearl Bird, and their daughter, Mary Bird, arrived from Attica. They were taken in by Stevenson. A young man from Attica arrived in town yesterday and located the Birds at Stevenson’s home. It is said he came to see Mary Bird. When Stevenson found the stranger at his home he ordered him out. It was then the fight started. Stevenson was struck in the back of the head with the coupling pin and was afterward stabbed in the back of the neck and in the right leg with a butcher knife.

Neighbors notified the town marshal of the trouble and when he arrived Stevenson was found lying in a pool of blood on. the floor. He was in a semi-conscious condition and was rushed to the office of a local physician. At 2 o’clock this morning he had not recovered from the anesthetic and it is thought his chances for recovery are ‘very slight. Following the removal of Stevenson, the Birds hitched up their horse to a junk wagon and flew. Warrants were issued for them, and the marshal started in pursuit. At a late hour this morning they were stlil at liberty. /