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Constable Reasons With HimFinally Constable Waldbeiser' was called on to arrest Edwards. He went to the Edwards home and is* ighbors of the Edwardses heard the officer arguing with Edwards and begging him to behave himself and respond peacefully to the law. The two men entered the front yard of the home. Edwards j till given to hot speech and Con-I liable Waldbeiser to efforts to iitiiet him.At the gate of the Edwards home Constable Waldbeiser and Edwards 1 caiue to violence. The constable shoved the man out of the gate j and they fell. Edwards' knife came into play. Hob Edwards • jumped in and called to George Edwards to drop his knife. Con able Waldbeiser was heard to v “I'm cut. Is it had? * This was the time when Miles Dempster, j front of whose home the cut-i ting occurred, reached the scene.The knife was dually taken from Edwards. Constable Waldbeiser was rushed to Murphyshoro for1 surgical treatment. The knife- j wielder was arrested nearly two hours later and brought to .Mur-physboro by Police Chief Joe Boston and Police Officer Dave Holder. |Sheriffs were out of the city atthe hour and the police acted in tlieir stead.Face Laid Open Edwards’ knife struck the constable above the left ear. cm the ear in two and opened his face from the base of the ear to the point of the chin. The blade followed closely the line of the lower jaw from ear to chin and then dipped towards the vitals of the j throat but did not get deep enough there to cause vital injury.The face was laid open to the bone. Doctors used twenty-two; stitches to close the wound.Got Bigger Knife, Report George Edwards and his cousin Boss had had words at Grimsby tarly in the evening. Grimsby is j less than a mile from Sami Ridge. George Edwards is said to have drawn a pocket knife on his cousin Boss, and Ross is reported to have hit George over the eye and black « tied the eye.George then allegedly vowed , Aengeance and went home and jsharpened his butcher knife with it tile. |George Edwards' wife is a con- j sumptive and is bedridden.It is reported at Sand Ridge that (Unstable Waldbeiser will insist fli.it the full power of the law be used in the Edwards case. It is a penitentiary offense to use a weapon while resisting arrest. Edwards is in the county jail.
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Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Mon, Aug 30, 1926
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