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At The Point Of A Revolver

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
January
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Is the way Mrs. Edwards Drove Postmaster Cook

Away from postoffice 

She had been allowing anyone to haul over mail - hence the trouble

"You bet I'm ready for a trial," shouted Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards in Justice Gibson's court last Saturday afternoon, when she was arraigned before the court on the charge of an attempt to shoot Postmaster Cook of Urania and his son, Sherman on last Monday.

Mrs. Edwards was arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Kelsey on a complaint entered by Postmaster Cook. When taken to the jail she gave the officials there a severe tongue lashing which she seemed to think they deserved.

"The postoffice is in my bedroom," she told Justice Gibson, "and I have to tend it without pay. I told'em I wouldn't do it and I won't. I was never sworn in, and that ain't my work."

It seems that at Urania there are possible a half dozen families who get their mail daily and when they wish to leave town they are right there at the depot for post office and railway station are all one. Then, too, the building, though not very commodious, serves as a hotel or rooming house, of which Mrs. Edwards is in charge.

Mr. Cook, who is a wealthy grain dealer at Urania, erected the building, but it is now owned by the Ann Arbor railroad. He said that Mrs. Edwards had been accustomed to allow persons to get their own mail and that when he had spoken to her about the matter she said she would do as she pleased. 

"Well, I'll have to locked the postoffice, the, when I'm not here," said Mr. Cook.

"No, you won't," retorted the woman, and she covered Cook with a pistol.

"Is it loaded?" asked Sherman Cook.

"You bet it is, and I'll show you, too," shrieked Mrs. Edwards.

The elder Cook managed to get out and the woman is said to have chased out his son.

"I was only defending myself," protested Mrs. Edwards and she was told that it would do no good to argue the matter until it should be brought to trial on January 22. She was held over until that date on a $500 bond.