Show A I murderous Is assault sault marshalltown MARSHALL MARSH TOWN iowa nov 17 A bloody affray occurred this morning at the house of marcenna stone a a wealthy farmer living four miles southeast F L Pel beam a hired man without any warning attacked stone with a email hatcher striking him dov down n w with ith a violent blow on the head while the farmer lay en on the floor partially bis his assailant repeatedly truck struck him again lire stone rushed in from another room and turned upon her an and struck her five times w with it gon the hatchet and would undoubtedly have killed her had bad not stone partially recovered and grasping the hired man by the throat brought him to the floor the screams of the tile woman and children had by this time attracted some neighbors and as they a approached P pro ached Iel beam he wrenched hl himself M loose and fled iio was afterwards found in the woods having cut his own throat the wound is not nece necessarily fatal mr and mrs stone will probably recover |