| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer for microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 11/2/1909.
Frank Stalnaker and Newt Jarvis engaged in a desperate fight at the
home of Dave Stalnaker on Beech Fork last Sunday, and as a result Stalnaker
is lying at his home with several ugly knife wounds in his face and breast,
and although the wounds inflicted are of a very serious nature it is believed
that he will recover. Details of the affair are very meager, and
as far as we have been able to ascertain the facts are as follows: Jarvis
and Stalnaker with some other young men had been drinking and were in a
semi-intoxicated condition and were apparently the best of friends, when
suddenly they quarreled and the fight started. We have not been able
to learn who was the aggressor or what was the immediate cause of the trouble.
In the melee that followed Jarvis is alleged to have used his knife with
telling effect on his antagonist. The first reports that reached
this place were that both the combatants were badly carved up, but later
reports say that while Stalnaker is suffering from several severe wounds,
Jarvis escaped with only a few bruises about the head and face.
A young man named Stalnaker a brother of Frank's, was reported to have
been cut and badly used up while separating the participants in the fight,
but this report has not been verified.
So far as we have been able to ascertain no arrests have yet been made. |
