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Clint Rucker attacked (1898)

RUCKER, ANCIAUX, LUTHER, NEWLON, HAMLER, HERNDON, ANCIAUX

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 9/3/2016 at 00:39:17

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, July 21, 1898, pg. 7

EXIRA DEPARTMENT

An affray occurred in Greeley last
Saturday afternoon in which Mr.
Clint Rucker received wounds which
will disfigure him for life. The story,
as told by Mr. V. J. Anciaux, is as
follows: That morning Mr. Anciaux,
Clint Rucker and William Luther had
been to Exira marketing some cattle
and Mr. Anciaux had gone up to Au-
dubon to attend to some business mat-
ters, telling the boys to return home
and continue making hay. Clint and
William had gone home, the former
was at the stable and the latter went
to the house, got Mr. Ancaoux's razor
and told the girls he was mad at Clint
and as soon as he came to the house he
was going to hack him with the razor.
This frightened the girls and they
immediately went out to the stable
and told Clint what he had said. Clint
started for the house and as soon as
Will saw him he jumped up and began
slashing away at him, striking him
across the bridge of the nose, cutting
a gash clear through that member and
making a mark along the left side of
the face and clear down on the neck,
another wound was made on the tem-
ple, in the roots of the hair, and a deep
cut was made on the left arm. By this
time Clint had disarmed his assailant
and putting a wet towel about his face
to stanch the blood he mounted a horse
and started for town. When part way
to town he met Mr. Anciaux and to-
gether they came to Doctor Newlon's
office, at Will Hamler's drug store,
where the injuries were carefully dress-
ed, the young man sitting quietly
while the surgeon stitched his flesh to-
gether without taking any anaesthetic
to deaden the pain. When the wounds
were dressed he went to the barber
shop, got shaved and expressed him-
self as feeling all right, and was in the
harvest field bright and early Monday.
William Luther, the man who did the
cutting, was given a short time in
which to pack his clothes and leave
the country, and he was soon lost to
sight behind one of those bald-headed
hills of Greeley.

Note: Parents of James Clinton "Clint" Rucker were Franklin Rucker and Sarah Herndon. Clint was married to Gertrude Anna "Gertie" Anciaux, daughter of Victor John "V.J." Anciaux and Hannah Mary Curtis.

Audubon County Journal, July 21, 1898
 

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