Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1908 — Harry Short Badly Thumped. [ARTICLE]

Harry Short Badly Thumped.

Harry Short to have little sympathy from those who witnessed himlgeta thoro drubbing Wednesday evening at the hands of Bruce Hardy, in| the Little Indian pool room. It is said that Reed had been drinking and was quarrelsome and used bad language. Bruce was in charge of 'the pool room and several; times ordered Short to leave. Finally Reed’s attitude became so offensive that Bruce again ordered him out and Harry doubled np hi-£ fists in a threatening manner and Bruce did the rest. He gave Harry a full arm jolt in the eye and sent him

down, then, going on the theory that the proper time to lick a fellow is when you have him at a disadvantage, Bruce alighted on top of the prostrate Harry and jabbed him a few more before bystanders interfered and pulled him off. Short has borne the reputation of being a bad man in a scrap and as he seems to have been so decidedly the aggressor, he probably got about what was coming to him.