Elmer Holyoke
Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Nov 1909, page 9
NEWPORT
At Speers Hospital last night it was said that Elmer Holyoke, the
peddler who was stabbed during a quarrel of a game of craps at Eighth and Lowell
street Saturday, was fatally wounded and that his death was liable to occur at
any time. Holyoke walked so far in quest of a physician that the wounds in
his stomach were greatly aggravated.
Detective Frank Morton visited the hospital yesterday and secured an ante mortem statement from Holyoke. The latter stated that after the quarrel started, he walked out of the saloon and a man named Coughlin followed him. Outside a fight started and Holyoke claims that Coughlin was the man who wielded the knife. The police were yesterday given a description of the man charge with the cutting and ordered to bring him n.
Officers encountered Coughlin last night in his boarding house and fired several shots at him but he escaped.