Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — HIT WITH A CATSUP BOTTLE [ARTICLE]

HIT WITH A CATSUP BOTTLE

Contents Caused Victim to Think He Had Been Murdered. Clark Warfel was celebrating Tuesday and imbibed too much hops to maintain a stable equilibrium, and was therefore arrested and taken before Squire Spitler. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was assessed a fine of $1 and costs, amounting in all to $9.05. Later in the day he went to the Bicknell pool room and soon engaged in a fight with Adrian Bicknell. During the melee Cobby Bicknell is said to have hit Warfel with a bottle of catsup, the bottle breaking and the contents decorating his countenance. When Warfel came to ‘he sajv his gory appearance and thought he had been murdered. Before he had sobered up sufficiently to distinguished catsup frolm blood he went to Squire Spitler and swore out a warrant for Bicknell. When the case was called yesterday forenoon about thirty witnesses were on hand, but the parties to the suit got together out of court and settled matters and the case was dismissed.