OAKESDALE MAN STIRS HUSBANDS
Second Statutory Offense Warrant Served on A. W. Linville at Hospital.
DOCTORS MADE PROTEST
Sheriffs Aver They Discovered Accused Ready For Walks -- Gives $2500 Bond.
Oakesdale husbands are demanding the prosecution of A. W. Linville, hardware merchant, and a second warrant charging a statutory offense was served on him yesterday at St, Luke's hospital in spite of efforts of physicians to guard him as a sick man.
Sheriff Walter G. Marsh of Colfax yesterday with a second warrant, but physicians declared that Linville was not in condition to be disturbed. Marsh conferred with Prosecutor Leavy and Deputy Sheriff Cashatt was instructed to go with Sheriff Marsh to the hospital.
Ready for Walk.
When they arrived they aver they found Linville ready to take a walk and he was arrested and taken to the office of Sheriff Brower.
The bond on the second charge was fixed at $2500 and Llnville was held at the office of the sheriff until his brother, CIyde arrived from Oakesdale with the bond. He then returned to the St. Luke's hospital. Nerve specialists are treating him.
While held here Linville said he had no statement to make regarding his prosecution. He declared he would show it was a frameup growing out of the acid throwing in which his wife figured. He had previously been served with one warrant.
Affidavits Claimed.
The warrants, it is said, are backed up by affidavits in the hands of the prosecutor at Colfax. Officials have been investigating since acid was thrown into the face of Mrs. Linville January 27.
Linville is 41 and was a salesman in Spokane for the Benham Griffith company some 15 years ago.