Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1909 — Roy and Bill Grayson Get In Bad Scrape In Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Roy and Bill Grayson Get In Bad Scrape In Hammond.

Two more severely battered individuals never returned to Rensselaer than Roy and Bill Grayson, who arrived here on the 10:55 train this Saturday morning. They had been in Hammond and \ report that as they were going along a Street in West Hammond, the home of the powder rag, thej r were attacked without cause by eight husky men and pummeled up most unmercifully. The assault, they allege, was committed Friday noon, and they found it necessary to receive treatment at the hands of a doctor and a trained nurse. Each wore a big bandage over his head covering a black eye, and Roy’s other eye was black and his face so severely bloated from blows it had received that he was not recognizable to many of his acquaintances. The Friday Hammond papers contained no account of the assault or fight.