Terrible Gash In His Face

Carl Lohrke Victim of a Brutal Assault

HE ACCUSES HIS SON

Of Being the Assailant—Lohrke's Family Have Deserted Him

Carl F. Lohrke, who has been employed at the University for the past seven years, at one time being an assistant in the boiler house, was the victim of a brutal assault a bout 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. Lohrke says that his 13-year-old son, Carl, was the assailant.

As a result of the attack made upon him Lohrke is today suffering a great deal of pain from a wound about three inches long on his left cheek, evidently inflicted with a sharp instrument probably a knife. He refuses to see a doctor and says that he has not made up his mind whether or not he will have his son arrested. Lohrke tells the following story of the assault.

He was going to his home, he says, at 511 S. First street and had almost gotten to the foot of the Ashley street incline at the Ann Arbor depot, when his son Carl rushed up to him and without any provocation made a vicious plunge at him with an instrument, the nature of which Lohrke says he does not know. He was felled to the ground, he says, and when he arose blood was streaming from his face. Some men who were near by, he says, assisted him to reach his home. Since then he has been nursing his wound as best he can. After the assault, Lohrke says that his son hurriedly disappeared.

According to Lohrke's statement there has been trouble brewing in his family for some time. "I refused," he said, "to give my wife money because she spent it for liquor and because of this she made my life miserable. On Tuesday last, when I was at work, she moved all the furniture from the house and has gone over to live in the third ward. Oh! this is tough," and Lohrke looked regretfully at the deserted house, from which every scrap of furniture had been removed, not even a washbowl remaining. Lohrke is at present making his bed on the floor In a corner of one of the rooms.

Neighbors corroborate the man's story. They say that the son, Carl, who is accused of the assault on his father, has been one of the worst boys in the neighborhood.

"The way that boy treated his father was shameful," said one lady. "He would attack the old man when he was corrected and his mother encouraged him. It's a shame the way things have been going on in that house. It was a regular thing for four of five pails of beer to be brought to the house every day, when the father was away. I am glad that Mrs. Lohrke has left the neighborhood."

Lohrke says that he will refuse to pay any bills that may hereafter be contracted by her and says that he will warn the merchants not to give her credit on his account. Mrs. Lohrke is now said to be living on Summit street in the third ward.