Inventor Beaten by Helpers Over Patent Rights

C. H. Voll, the assayer, was yesterday given a severe beating by Walter Walters and Theodore Hunsaker, who have been helping him in making a model for a patent, because, as he says, he refused to transfer a two-thirds interest in the invention to them. As soon as he could escape he ran into Judge Caldwell's court and swore out a warrant charging Walter Walters and Theodore Hunsaker with assault and battery. Mr. Voll, who is an inventor as well as a chemist and assayer, some time ago commenced work on a nickel-in-the-slot machine, from which he expected great things. Not being a wealthy man he arranged with Walter Walters to do the woodwork, Walters to receive his board only at present and the balance due him when the machine placed on the market and money realized from it. After a while it became necessary to employ a machinist and Hunsaker was hired on the same plan as Walters. The two men themselves a short time ago hired an attorney to draw up some papers purporting to give them some rights in the patent and yesterday called on Voll at his office and insisted on his transferring to them a two-thirds interest in the patent. This Voll refused to do and Hunsaker, who is said to have been under the influence of liquor, called him a liar and abused him in every way possible. Voll asked him jokingly to put what he said down in writing, and Hunsaker [???] of the assayer in [???] terms. Voll took the paper and when Hunsaker demanded it back he refused to give it up. Hunsaker knocked him down and, taking the paper, burned it up. Then both men proceeded to thrash the assayer, who is a small man. They struck him several times on the head and on the body, the door being locked so that he could not get away. Finally he got up and made a rush and got out of the office. When the officers arrived with the warrant both men had disappeared.