The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-27
FIGHTING WITH KNIVES.
A Bloody Row Between Five Drunken
Swedes and a Party of LOafers.
A Knife Is Left Sticking in the Breast of One
Of the Number-ArreSt of the Crowd
on the Charge Of RiOtiDg.

AS the result of the crowds coming together
yesterday. that were celebrating Christmas as
the Liquor League prescribes there came near
being another murder to chronicle Algut
Linderhorn. baker, Oscar Olsen, Henry Pc
tersen, Philip Rost and August Bergman,
Swedes, and tailors, in the employ of Egan q
Treat, were all spendip: their first Christmas in
America, and were we'll armed with whisky
bottles they wanted filed, when, about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, they left their rooms in the
Union Block, and went to Philip Rechwein 8
saloon, on the corner Of Noble and
Market stree1s. At the threshold of the
saloon they met another crowd of young men.
who were celebrating in the same manner. 1t
was composed of Michael and Patrick Curran.
David Casey and William Schaub. The Swedes
said something to the quartet that insulted
them, and when the five foreigners entered the
saloon by the rear door, they were followed by
the four young men, Words were passed, and
soon there was an exchange of blows, in which
three Or four of the heligerents were knocked
down They fought through the saloon and out
the front door to the sidewalk, where they be-
gan to get desperate. Pat Curran drew large
knife, and some of his companions did
Pat Curran grabbed Lnderhorn and cut him
first in the back, and then, reaching around him,
stabbed him in the breast, only few inches
above the heart. At the same instant one of the
other three OF the Curran gang attacked Peter
sen with knife, and cut him several times bad
ly. once in the back and twice in the abdomen.
BY this time the police were in sight and the
Curran gang ran. The knife that was plunged
into Linderhorn was still In his body when the
officers came up 1t evident that
IA Uq 1u hnp for ha
was unable to walk. Flanner & Hommown's
ambulance was called and he was sent to St.
Vincents Hospital where his wounds were
dressed by DIR. Taylor, who pronounced the stab
a very dangerous one.
The police took tho other four Swedes with
Petersen to the on-house, where they
were locked up on the charge of rioting.
On account OF his wounds, bail was procured for
Petersen, and he was taken home. He is not
dangerously cut.
The men who did the cutting evaded arrest
until late in the evening. when they were found
boys were locked up on the charge of assault
and battery with intent to kill, and Casey and
Schaub for rioting The Curran boys offered no
denial OF the cutting. and claimed that
they did it in self-defense. The Swedes
claimed the same for themselves. They
said that they were attacked by the
gang when they entered the saloon,
and only fought because they had to. They
were greatly incensed at being locked up and
one of them, who spoke English fairly we'll. ex-
pressed himself that 'if this is the American
law, to lock man up like thief for defending
himself. l no stay in America" The three in
the station house agreed that they would go
back TO Sweden as soon as they were released,
and on account of such determination Mr.
Egan who came down to go on their bond. de-
ciGed that it would be safer for him to allow
them to remain in the station-house until this
morning.