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Chastises Whole Family

Harry Rubinson Says Herme F. Hahnen is Some Fighter.

Information charging Herme F. Hahnen, chief clerk of the Iowa National bank, with assault and battery was filed this morning In Justice Cope's court by attorneys for the complaining witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rubinson. Rubinson accuses Hahnen of going to his home, 1306 West Fourth street, last Saturday night, and of attacking him and his wife on their front porch. The alleged altercation resulted from the finding of a little fire shovel by the 6-year-old Rubinson boy. According to the story told by Rubinson, the boy brought the shovel home and said he had found it in Hahnen's yard. "Mrs. Rubinson sent the boy back with the shovel," he said, "and then thought nothing more about the matter until Hahnen came over to our house at about 8:30 o'clock and asked that our child be punished. He said that the boy had stolen the shovel and should be spanked for it. I heard the man and my wife in an argument at the door and went out to see what was the trouble. "Hahnen jumped upon me and threw me over the porch railing upon a pile of brick and then he pushed Mrs. Rubinson against the wall, bruising her severely. After that he found our little boy and spanked him and then went home." Hahnen will be arraigned on the charge this afternoon or tomorrow morning.