Montour Hermit Dies From Attack

ROUSE

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 2/10/2013 at 08:08:45

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; July 5, 1929

MONTOUR HERMIT
DIES FROM ATTACK

W. Scott Rouse, seventy-eight year old hermit of Montour, was dead Tuesday after vainly trying to tell of the attack made on him Saturday evening by three disguised men. The men tied him up, thrust him behind the stove in his little hut, and then broke open and took the contents of the hermit's safe. Rouse is the second Iowa recluse to be slain within a week.

Rouse was found Tuesday noon by an Indian friend. He was in an unconscious condition, and was unalbe to talk or make any movement. He died soon after being taken to a Marshalltown hospital Tuesday.