Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 13, 1873 Volume III, Number 126. Neighborhood News - Manistee Last Saturday afternoon CHARLES McCARTY, who figured so con- spicuously a year ago as one of the COMPKY murderers, went into the lager beer saloon of the ANDREE Bros. and called for a glass of beer, which he got and paid for, and was to receive some change back which was handed to him, and which he dropped on the floor and lost. He then wanted ANDREE to give him other change, which ANDREE refused to do. McCARTY then declared he would whip ANDREE, and some confusion ensued, and ANDREE called DANIEL HORNKOHL, a constable, from the next room. HORNKOHL attempted to arrest McCARTY, but could not do it alone and went into the street for the Marshal. He saw the Deputy Marshal coming down the street and he called him, and they went down into the saloon and attempted again to arrest McCARTY. Other parties inter- fered and said they would "clean out the officers." MR. PARSONS drew his revolver and drew back the hammer as he brought his hand around, when some person struck his elbow and the revolver went off shooting him through the fore finger of the left hand, and lodging in the left eye of AWALD ANDREE. The bone in MR. PARSONS' finger was broken, and his hand is swollen badly, but it is thought his finger can be saved. The ball entered ANDREES'S eye in such a shape as to not touch the lid or bruise the skin, and still remains in his head. DR. MEAD was called to attend ANDREE, but though he has thorougly probed the wound, cannot find the ball. He lays in an easy stupor part of the time, and has but little pain, which the doctor regards as a danger- ous omen. If inflammation should take place he will not be likely to survive, but if the inflamation can be kept down he may recover. Mc- CARTY was arrested and held to bail. This is another item to charge to the liquor traffic. If McCARTY had not been drinking there would have been no row. If liquor sellers had been engaged in some other business he would not have been drunk, and MR. PARSONS would not have lost a finger, MR. ANDREE would not have lost an eye, and probably his life, and the county would not have been put to the expense of another criminal trial. Does the liquor traffic pay? - Hoffman's Manistee Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentwater News Pentwater, Oceana Co., Mich. Friday, June 20, 1873 Volume III, Number 127. On Tuesday CHARLES McCARTY and two other men were tried before MR. GLOVER, for the row in the saloon when AWALD ANDREE and the Deputy Marshal were shot. The Justice thought the evidence against two of them insufficient, but held McCARTY to bail to the Circuit Court, in the sum of $300. McCARTY is quite an expensive chap to Manistee county. He was engaged in the COMPKY murder, and a long and expensive examination was had. He was tried in the Circuit Court and cleared, while his accomplice was sent to State's prison for 15 years. He now figures in another riot, and the county will be to the expense of trying him again. He is said to be quite a clever fellow when sober, but a perfect devil when drinking. ==========================================================================