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Durlo# the Search of Monday Night.Monday Night’s Search.On last Monday night, after the terrible cutting of Baysinger by Davenport, near Maxville, Officers Bishop, Cunningham, McClellan and Cain went from here and searched the bottoms until along in the morning hours, investigating every tent, hut and log pile. They first learned the facts in the case, then secured the services of a man who knew both Davenport and Carroll by sight, and started out. Just the other side of the Vandalia track they came across a wild and grizzly old man, who was not going to let them search his premises, and pullinga gun from a hollow tree, formed himself into a line of battle. The officers quickly convinced him that his attitude would result disastrously to his health if he didn’t change it, and so he changed it, put away his- gun, and the officers looked throughhis place,- which did not strike them as furnished with elegance or disregard of cost. The next spot to which they proceeded was the Cooper tent, which has been the hang-out of the river-bottom prostitute, the thing of female mold who stood by while Bay-singer’s life-blood was pouring from eight wounds, and her fiendish paramour was endeavoring to cut from his bleeding form the small vitality that was left. The reader can imagine the character of the place in which such a woman would live. It is a tent whose appearance speaks of the service it has seen. When the officers arrived they were met a good half way by a great number of flea-bitten, ugly, savage dogs, which they were obliged to beat back. The interior of that tent, when the officers entered, surpasses anything in the wav of rough and low life that lias been related of the west,outside of the Chinese district in California. Women were strewn about the ground with barely sufficient clothing on their bodies to* protect their modesty if they had possessed that article, which they do not. They were dirty; so was every thing else around. It is a place where a man would at once realize that his life was in danger if he had on his person anything to excite cupidity. There were about fourteen persons in the tentes, which is also the residence of Mrs. Cooper, and Davenport and Carroll. Not having found their men, after hours of search, the officers returned to the city. There are between seventy and eighty persons camping around the bottoms, and there Is no telling how many Bell Kings and William Davenports there are among them. Some of their abodes consist simply of tenting stretched around the tops of four posts, and open at the sides. In fact the domiciles of these river bottom people are of various forms. The lowlands which lie between the river and the hills to the west are plentiful with murderers and prostitutes, and prompt and effective measures should be adopted to cleanse them.Between the bridges there are about six camps, and in the immediate vicinity of Maxville eleven or twelve.Some of the people sleep in wagons, and others in hollow trees, while there are tents and huts of all descriptions.expressed at me iaet tnat ms wounas did not terminate fatally at once. Dr. John Crapo says he is not without hope that Baysinger will recover, but can tell better in a few days.Some of the Parties.Mrs. Cooper, who claims that Davenport was soon to have become her husband, is the wife of the man Cooper who was killed here a number of years ago by a negro named Al. Evans, who struck him upon the head with a chair, in Crow’s saloon, on the corner of Third street and the alley running between Main and Cherry, known as Jockey alley. She is also the mother of Milton Cooper, who made a deadly assault a few weeks’ ago on a tramp, at the west end of the Vandalia bridge, slicing his arm with a sickel. It is thought that the Coopers have been camping around the country between here and Paris ever since the killing at Crowe’s saloon.Nothing much seems to be known of the history of Davenport and Carroll, but the events which have transpired this week will give an idea of what it has been.It is stated that Belle King ran away from her husband, at Charleslon, Ills., and that he is now about to die. She was once an inmate of Battle Row, down the river, which is or was a locality noted for its vicious charactersand sinful doings.We will bunch the whole party and say they are a depraved, dangerous lot.BASE BALD.The Status of the Anlcwards and Blues, n.s Ueternainctl l)j tlie (JfliHcs WciiandLost.The Gazette of last Monday having published sketches of the Awkwards and Blues, and the latter club thinking that too much glory was accorded to the former club, the secretary of the Bines has prepared a list of the games won and lost during the season bv the two crack nines of the city. The following are the games played by the Blues with clubs not including the Awkwards:Games Won.May 7—Blues, 17; Brick-Bats, 7.14—Blues, 15; Nationals, 8.“ 21—Blues 9; Nationals. 5.28—Blues, Hi; Nationals, 7.June 25—Blues, 10; Nationals, 15; 7 innings.July 15— Blues,30; Charleston Clippers. 14.“ 17—Blues, 1!*; Rockville Browns, 5. August 4—Blues, 11; Paris Reds, 2.August 10— Blues, 17; T. H. Browns, (I. September 20—Blues, 0; T. II. Browns, 5. August IS—Blues, 31; T. 11. Browns, 21.Games Lost by Blues.June 15—Blues, IS); Rockville Browns, 29.August 3—Blues 13; T. IT. Browns, 15; 10 innings. .. „ ..September S—Blues 0; Marshall Eclipse,18.It will be seen from the above showing that the Blues won in eleven of the fourteen games played with clubs other than the Awkwards.Victories for the Blues in Games Withthe Awkwards.June 19—Blues 13; Awkwards, 5.Julv 21—Blues 28; Awkwards, 12,August II.—Blues, 22; Awkwards, 15. October22.—Blues, II; Awkwards, 12.J uly 4.—151 ues, 0; A wk wards, 2.The game on July 4th was referred to by the Gazette as a victory for the Awkwards, while they barely saved themselves from a simple “goose-egg.” The Awkwards never beat the Blues at Early’s grove, and therefore won no bat from them at that place.The following is the showing which is given the Awkwards, in games withclubs other than the Blues:Games Won.Tnno ‘X)—AwkWflffls. If)! 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Terre Haute Daily Wabash Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 25, 1882
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