William Graus
Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 October 1873, page 5
NEWPORT NEWS
We heard a wonderful story yesterday. It was that on Wednesday
afternoon while Wm Graus, a butcher, living in Finchtown, was going home, he was
stopped on the Licking pike by two men, one of whom, armed with a gun, insisted
that he was the policeman that arrested them.
Graus, to convince him of his mistake, got off the wagon and grappled with the fellow. During the struggle they rolled into a pond near by, where they continued the discussion in neck deep water, while the gun sank to the bottom of the pond.
While Graus scrambled out the parties took to their heels. Our informant forgot what the other fellow did during the engagement.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 November 1878, page 7
NEWPORT
BRUTAL ATTACK-Willie Kraus, aged fifteen, whose parents reside at Finchtown, was attacked and brutally beaten by a crowd of young roughs yesterday afternoon at the corner of Orchard and Williamson streets. He was at first hit on the head with a club and knocked down, and after regaining his footing was struck with a bowider, felling him to the ground a second time.
At this juncture a crowd of women came to the lad's rescue and saved him from further attack. Young Kraus was helped into his wagon and driven home and the young villains who made the attack scattered in various directions so that their names could not be learned. The police have a clew (sic) to the rascals and it is to be hoped they will be brought to justic.