Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1907 — Tom Dowlwing, of Morocco, Cut With Knife [ARTICLE]

Tom Dowlwing, of Morocco, Cut With Knife

Morocco Conner 7: A most lamentable occarance, .took place suit of which is that one of our eiti zeus is laid up with a very severe knife thrust and liable to die, while' two ofbur citizens are under 15,000 bondsfor assault and battery with attempt to kill. It is extremely hard to get at the real facts of the case, but Friday forenoon My. Tom Dowling who lives east of town drove hurridly into town and went to a physician to have a very severe, knife wound dressed. The wound was in the region cf the lower rib aud came very near being instantly fatal. For for a time it was thought that he could not recover from itseffects, but at this time he. is considerably better with chances in. his favor. He stated that he had called at one of his neighbor’s, Orriu Elijah's fcr the purpose of, talking over or soliciting for a tile, ditch of some kind that affected the farms of both men. How the trouble started does not matter, but in effects he states that Orriu Elijah struck him over the head with a spade and his son Arch Elijah made a knife thrust which caused the wound. The two men were taken in curs tody to Keutland where bonds in the sum of $5,000 each were fixed up for their appearance in the circuitcourt to answer to tfie , charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, and they were then released. It is indeed a most deplorable affair and niofe so because the men were good neighbors and have always been on (airlv gQod terms.