Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-21

didn't invite me. DO yer call that man
ners ?"
"Nc, l don't, for square was the
reply. "yyhy don't Yer &C there any
how ~
q did, and dey .re4v me out. Give US
drink"
After few more drinks Mr.. Lang
said he'd 90 to the wake whether they
wanted him to or not, and he started
OIL 1t wasn't long before he returned
all bruised up and covered with dust.
"Gimme mother drink" ne said. He
stood there and brooded. They'll
smart for H." he declared, banging
his fist down on the bar. He started OIL
again.
The wake was being held On the top
floor of No. 3335 east Thirty-first street,
New York, the body being that Of Mrs.
Mary Ellen Crauthers, the sister OF Jas.
Gilmore, a laborer and master of the
flat. The chief mourners Were Gilmore
and his wife, Wm Lawlor, Of the same
tenement, and delegates from most of
the dwellings adjacent. Henry Lang
lives at No. SCI First avenue, and his
wife, who is blind, contributes largely
to his support. She sat near the coffin
of Mrs. Crauthers and took part in the
wake by singing the praises OF the de-
ceased and emptying beer glass whom
ever one came her way.
While the proceedings were ut their
height Mr.. Lang returned TO the wake
for the third time, ugly and in a fight
ing mood, swearing that any one who
laid finger on him would be sorry for
it. He announced that if there was
any trouble raised he'd be right in it
and that he'd take care the wake was
Sroken up.
They allowed him TO sit in q corner
and he fell asleep presently and snored.
Then the rest attacked the beer, never
waking Lang to give him drink. On
the table was pile of tobacco and an
abundance Of clay pipes and when
they were set going the smoke became
so dense that Lang woke w choking.
An old woman was telling the viz
tues of the dead. Lang fell ugly and
stepping into the middle Of The room
stamped his feet with great emphasis,
clapped his hands, said that The state
ments were all lies and that TIC corpse
in the coffin wasn't better than any
other corpse.
Lawlor and Gilmore jumped up aad
seized Lang, who grabbed teapot
from a shelf and broke ii over the head
of Gilmore Then the row proper
began.
The two indignant masters Of cere-
monies got Lang down on the floor and
hammered his head with empty beer
bottles. He yelled for mercy and it
came up the tenement stairs in the per-
son of a policeman. who took Lang to
the east Thirty-fifth street police sta
ton. There ii was found that Lang
face had been converted into q carlca-
ture Of its normal self and the sergeant
turned in call for an ambulance from
Bellevue Hospital.
The surgeon reported that the jaw OF
The disturber of wakes seemed to be
broken and then his wife, who had fol-
lowed him to the station house, called
for vengeance. She said that Lawlor
and Gilmore oughtto be arrested. -Four
policemen were sent 10 the tenement
TO put stop 10 the proceedings there,
which Mr.. and Mrs. Lang described as
disgraceful.
The uproar was terrific when the
squad arrived, and at Il signal from q
sentinel in the hallway a large part OF
the walkers made q rush for the roof.
1t was three o'clock in the morning by
this time. The police seized all the
participants in the disturbance that
they could see and demanded eXplana-
tions. One prisoner named Early WAS
dragged by the leg out of Il cuddy hole
in which he had been hiding. At the
same time the police discovered some
bottles Of whisky concealed il the hall
way which they believed must have
been the proceeds of the burglary Of o
saloon.
Things quoted down after the arrest
of Lawlor and Gilmore. Lang was sent
to Bellevue Hospital and placed in the
cage there. All the parties 10 the
wake except the corpse were in the
Yorkville court Monday morning, each
one with a different version Of the row,
Lang's head was q shapeless bundle of
bandages when he was rushed out OF
the "pen; to the magistrates desk.
The main question for settlement was
one of social etiquctte-whether Lang
had any right to be at the wake un-
invited. He argued that q wake is a
semi-public affair and that neighbors
cannot be excluded.
Gilmore and Lawlor told the magis-
trate that Lang had behaved himselfin
an ungentlemanly style and they had
resented ii mildly. How he broke his
Jaw they couldn't say, rs they had not
assaulted him. He had probably done it HIM
self somehow They argued that it would be
fine condition of public affairs if people were
allowed to 20 to wakes and break them Up.
The Justice took this view of the situation
and sent Lang TO prison for ten days, discharg-
ing the others without y stain on their char
acter.
The pair then repaired to the tenement and
triumphantly concluded the funeral. When
| called there they were at the cemetery.
Two women and man were drinking heer
from enormous GROWERS and weeping. The
woman said that the disturbance WIS largely
family affair, the result of misrepresentation,
and that she hoped the papers world let the
matterdrop
Poor Lang, the apostle of the doctrine OF
the publicity of wakes, betook his aching jaw
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