Story #14
An article copied from The Clermont Sun, September 13, 1916
LOADED FOR BEAR
Were Peebles Couple
Man, Woman, Bull Dog, Four
Guns, Twenty Pints Whiskey
Constitute Haul Made By Sheriff of
Adams County Last Sunday
Morning – The Queer
Combination Creat-
ed Trouble.
West Union, Ohio, September 12 --- Sunday morning Deputy Sheriff Geo. Stewart was called out of church by a telephone message from Peebles asking him to be on the watch for a couple who were headed this way, in a junk wagon, and who were wanted in Peebles following a fight near that place the day before. As the deputy stepped out of church the junk wagon accordingly drove into sight and its two occupants, or more properly speaking, three – a man, woman, and a bulldog – answering the description were detained by the Sheriff.
The woman's hair was matted and clotted with blood as a result of a scalp wound inflicted she said, by a skillet in the hands of her husband's brother, after she had resented indecent proposals, and who in turn was beaten up by the woman's husband.