Dangerous Assault 1878

WALTZE, WOELTZE, THIERER, TYER

Posted By: Volunteer - Cathy Joynt Labath
Date: 5/31/2006 at 10:03:39

Burlington Hawk Eye; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; May 9, 1878

A farmer named Christian Waltze, living near Farmington, had his skull fractured, on Saturday morning, by a blow with an ax in the hands of a neighbor, named John Thierer, receiving a probably fatal wound.

Dangerous Assault.
Correspondence of THE HAWKEYE.

Farmington, May 6, 1878.- An old quarrel between John Tyes [sic - Tyer ?] and Christian Woeltze resulted in a meeting on Friday last, the latter receiving a blow from ax in the hands of the former, which bids fair to prove fatal. Tyer had an examination to-day before Justices Coulter and Benson, at Boyer Station, and was held to bail in $1,000. G.W. Ringer, of Farmington, for the state, and M. Beaman, of Keosauqua, for the defense.