The Garrison Creek Brawl

The spirit of brotherly love was sadly lacking between David McMillan and Hughey Stewart, brothers-in-law and horse traders. McMillan was fined $50 and costs in Judge Huffman's court this afternoon for chewing the lip half off Stewart in an all-round family fight in the outskirts of the city last night. The conflict, which started over the sale of a horse, devolved into a family jar of unusual proportions, with members of both families appearing in court with broken heads, fractured arms, and cut faces. The head of the McMillan house appeared with a fractured left arm, a puffed-up eye, and a cut forehead. A young son had his left arm fractured in two places, and another son had a cut over his head. Stewart's face was bandaged to keep his upper lip from falling off, his son George had a deep cut over his eye, and a daughter nearly fainted on the witness stand from a blow received to her shoulder during the struggle. The implements of warfare—an axe and two heavy neck yokes—were introduced as evidence, all spattered with blood. McMillan denied biting Stewart, bizarrely asserting that the wounded man had bitten himself in a fit of rage. The families, who travel the country in rigs, were camped near Garrison Creek when the fight occurred.