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.

When first interviewed by the Sheriff, the man gave the name of M-----, and the woman gave a different name, denying they were the parties wanted, and who have been buying junk and camping near Peebles in company with another man, said to be a brother of the man arrested. The parties were known at Peebles under the name of S-----, and when searched, their wagon was found to contain two rifles, a shot gun and a revolver, and twenty pints of whiskey.

After the woman's wounds were attended to the couple were returned to Peebles, where a preliminary was held before Esquire Jackson, who bound the man over to the Grand Jury in the sum of $200.00 on a charge of carrying concealed weapons and in default of bond he was brought to West Union and lodged in jail.

Later the Justice ordered the man returned to Peebles, but as he had passed beyond his jurisdiction and investigation being in progress concerning other phases of the situation, he is still sojourning in the county bastille in fault of bail.