Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-27
MADE THINGS LIVELY.
An Extraordinary Scene in the Cen
trail Hotel Yesterday Afternoon.
APROFESSIONAL MANS REVENGE
He Attacks Business Man and Chases Him
Out to the Street.
A WOMAN is MIXED UP In TIE AFFAIR

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Central Hotel yesterday afternoon by the ap-
pearance of a hatless individual who did not
take time to come from the second floor in the
elevator, but rushed down the stairs as If he
had been shot froma catapnlt In his eager
ness to get to the first floor he came down part
of the way on his back. Upon alighting at the
bottom, he hurriedly picked himself up and
rushed into the writing room, apparently with
the intention of jumping through one of the
windows leading to Smithfield street. The
windows being closed, he rushed back to the
entrance and started out the corridor to the
door,
Proprietors Anderson and Rowan and sew.
eral of the clerks tried to grab him as he
passed out. but the man was not to be stopped,
man tried to murder him, and rushed out into
the street. He was bleeding from q large cash
in the back of his head.
Closely following him was q well-dressed but
flushed individual, wearing gold-rimmed
glasses, who also came down the stairs four
at time. a.'
HE HAD A WEAPON.
He carried in his hand the fragment of a
broken stone cuspidor, and excitedly yelled,
"Where is the villain 2" "The dirty scoun-
drelr' 81 will kill himr' He Immediately be-
gan searching through the lower part Of the
ing business elsewhere at that time. The pro-
prietors of the hotel. who had by this time be-
come alarmed, and thinking that crime was to
be committed, tried to stop this man also.
The latter shook them off as il they were chill
dren, and began to retrace his steps back to the
second floor.
1t was then found that the first person was
wellknown business man and resident of Nc
Keesport and the other was a well-known pro-
m narfo If
Allegheny
WARNING LETTER.
Early in the day the latter gentleman re.
ceived word that his wife was to meet the other
man by appointment at the Central Hotel be.
tween and o'clock. BE put a detective on
her track, and the wife was followed to the
hotel. The detective notified the husband. who
appeared at the hotel and asked for the couple
Learning that they were in the ladies' parlor,
he took the elevator and went up. Upon being
shown into the parlor the man saw his wife in
earnest conversation with the man she was to
meet The pair were enjoying themselves when
the husband rushed into the room.
The balance of thelstory was told BY one of
the interested spectators, who said:
When the husband noticed the man with his
wife, he rushed upon the latter, and seizing an
umbrella, smashed it over the mans head. He
then picked up heavy ice water glass, stand
ing on the table and threw it at the mans
head. He followed this up with heavy cuspi-
dor, which struck the man on the back of the
head,
CUTTING AN UGLY CASH.
"Had the cuspidor hit him fairly the man
would certainly have been killed, as he de.
served. After hitting him with the cuspldor
the enraged husband, who was by this time
almost crazy, jumped upon the man and threw
him down. They rolled over and over upon
the floor, upsetting everything in the room and
creating a tremendous racket. All the time
the husband was pummeling the other man in
the face and head, and gave him a severe beat
"While the husband had the man down, the
wife, who had been standing by watching the
struggle and as cool as an icicle, Jumped upon
her husbands back and tried to tear him away
from the other man. To prevent harming the
man and turned his attention to her. The
other man hastily scrambled to his feet and
made
BEE LINE FOR THE DOOR,
which he gained before the husband could tear
himself away from his wife. The latter held
on to her husband, and could not be shaken off
until the other man had disappeared and made
his way down stairs. The wife then sank to
the floor exhausted, while the husband pursued
his adversary. -,
"The latter having escaped the husband, fol.
t tomeu W .ne proPfietor anu clerks OF tne
noteli went up 10 tne parior Wnere his wife
was. everything was IN confusion and the
room looked as II desperate struggle had
Iaken Piace. Inc piano stoor was knocked
away away unaeI une instr1menI ana the table had
been overturned. Fragments Of glass and
broken cuspidors were scattered about In
great profusion. The hat of the man who had
ran away was found lying on the floor, and in |
side. printed upon a piece of paper, was his
name. The husband took the hat, but after |
ward turned IL over TO tine hotef people. About |
an nour alIer tne row tne man called for 1t.
THE woman in the case is only about % years |