A jury in the justice court Tuesday afternoon found Charles Tull, a livery stable man, not guilty of an assault and battery upon Charles S. Lebo, manager of the Medford Realty & Investment Company, but the minds of the jury and the approved and accepted law of evidence did not jibe. Mr. Lebo bore no marks of a fierce scrimmage and Mr. Tull was peaceful-looking, causing attorney Kelly to remark that the battle was "an Irish washerwoman dispute over a clothesline." The case took all afternoon and was full of argument.
    Evidence introduced showed that Mr. Tull had grabbed Mr. Lebo by his collar and attempted to throw him off his own land. Mr. Lebo object to this course and then both fell off a dump platform used in loading dirt wagons, the real estate man on top. Before the disagreement traveled any farther the pair were separated.
    The testimony of Mr. Lebo developed an interesting phenomenon when he testified that "Tull had swung at him, missed him, but knocked him down." Attorney Kelly for the defense tried for half an hour to unravel this riddle, but gave up. Mr. Tull spoke in the language of his business and pictured Mr. Lebo as "high-strung and fractious" [terms usually used in describing horses].
    As near as the testimony showed, the trouble arose over the wages of men employed in making improvements on the property of the Medford Realty & Improvement Company and the powers of Mr. Lebo in telling employees on his own land what to do. A man by the name of Coggins testified that he told Tull he would quit his job unless someone told him who was his "boss."
Medford Sun, November 20, 1912, page 1


    G. P. Rickley, who conducted a livery stable in Medford in company with C. E. Tull 13 years ago, is a delegate to the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. He is engaged in merchandising at Harrisburg, Linn County.
"Local and Personal," Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1913, page 2


    Charles E. Tull is at Glendale where he is filling a logging contract with the owners of the saw mills operating there.
"Local and Personal," Medford Mail Tribune, September 3, 1913, page 4

    The theory that Juanita, 13 years old, and Buster, 12 years old, children of Mrs. Charles Tull by her first husband, had been kidnapped was exploded yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Chas. Terrill, who had concluded his own investigation of the case, when he announced positively that they had run away from home, and still further this morning when the Portland chief of police telephoned here to the sheriff that the runaways were in custody of the Portland police and were being held until advices were received from him. Mrs. Tull will leave tonight for Portland to bring her daughter and son home.
    It is not known just when or how the runaways happened to be picked up by the Portland police, as the long-distance message merely stated that the children were being held until further orders. When this message was given to Mrs. Tull, who had spent another sleepless night, she almost collapsed but was overjoyed to learn that the children were safe.
    About the first question she asked when she had recovered her equilibrium was whether "that moving picture woman" was with the children. She still thought that this mysterious woman, who is said to have offered Juanita a job at Venice as a moving picture actress, after praising her beauty and handsome head of hair, might have had something to do with her daughter and son running away from home, although she now thinks that the children were on their way to Prineville, Ore., to join her husband, their stepfather, who is employed as veterinary by the Twohy Bros. near there.
    Mrs. Tull emphatically denies the rumor in circulation yesterday that Juanita had forged a check for $35 on her stepfather to obtain money for herself and brother. Just before the Fourth of July, she says, Mr. Tull sent them a check for $25 for spending money over the Fourth. Herself and children talked it over and the children decided they would rather save the money to purchase a present for Mr. Tull. It was this money, their own, Mrs. Tull says that the children used to get away as far as Portland.
    Sheriff Terrill in his investigations found that Juanita and Buster had walked to Ashland on Sunday and that evening had left for the north on the train, and further that both had confided to friends their intentions of running away. The girl told friends she was anxious to get to Venice, Calif., and the boy had ambitions to go to Mexico. The sheriff further said that Juanita had told at least one friend that she had forged a check on her stepfather, to obtain going-away money.
    Putting all the facts together Sheriff Terrill decided that the sister and brother were on their way to join Mr. Tull and would be caught en route or on their arrival there, so he dropped his investigation. Chief of Police Timothy aided in the investigation
Medford Mail Tribune, July 9, 1919, page 3