Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-19

, very serious. but it will take "a hours time
to decide whether the wounds will prove
fatal
Corporal David Lester and Private How
ard Hook, members of Company A, Four
teenth Regiment, slipped the guards at
Homestead, Sunday evening. They came
into the city, they spent the night drinking
and wandering the streets and at one time
visited Hooks home on Cherry alley. They
found themselves on Grant street about 9
o'clock in the morning in possession OF
tool box belonging to Booth & Finn.
An Eye witness Story.
1t was after o'clock yesterday morning
when they were again seen on Grant street.
Charles F. Kesel. baker in the employ of
Fred Kleppick, $40 Grant street, tells the
story of the stabbing as witnessed by him
from the door of his employers shop:
81 cannot say what the hour was, but
think it was just after 9 o'clock, saw
coming up Grant street two soldiers and q
civilian, one of the soldiers was corporal.
They went into the undertaking establish
ment of Louis Beinhauer and interfered
with him and lady who was talking to
him. He ordered them out, when they
started to abuse dog in his reception
room. He again ordered them out, and, as
they refused to 60, he went to his telephone
to call for the police, when they left and
went across the street to the same tool box
where they had bivouacked the night pre-
viouS
He Practiced on Box.
''The corporal pulled out his bayonet and
stuck. it in the box several times in a
vicious manner. Then he replaced it in
its scabbard and they again crossed the
street to Mr.. Beinhauer's The undertaken
came out with pen in his hand. saying, I
will have you people arrested, and started
toward Fifth avenue. He passed Devore's
with the soldiers following him,
cabu ead they who 50rshts ns, Gslsdd stasdne Frank
Devore's door. He told them not to be
tools and get away from their door or they
would be arrested. The soldiers turned
around, saying, with string of oaths, 1T
is none OF your business Calhoun gave
the Corporal a friendly shove and again
told him to go away or they would be ar
rested. The Corporal grabbed him by the
neck, forced him into the hallway through
an open door and pulled out his bayonet.
With string of horrible oaths
Lester cried: 4 will give you this, and
made three wicked lungeS at Calh0un.
Lester made another attempt to plunge the
bayonet into Calhoun, who was trying to
get away, grabbed the bayonet and stopped
him. Just then Officer John McClurey
appeared and arrested Lester. The other
soldier or the civilian had gone"
How tho Injured Man Is.
Captain Calhoun has rooms over Devore's
establishment He is 81 years of age and
has family. Before the war he was en-
gagged with Colonel Samuel Rodgers, an
Allegheny undertaken, and he married Mr..
Rodgers daughter. At the breaking out of
the Civil War, Mr.. Calhoun enlisted in the
service and by his bravery won the
title of Captain. When he returned
from the war he engaged with
W. Fl. Devore and has ever since been his
manager. He is at present Commander of
Post 157, G. A. R.
Testers home is on Mt Washington. He
is % years old and wire worker.
Captain Schmidt, of Company A, arrived
a few minutes after the stabbiug with
squad to take supplies to Homestead. He
heard of the affray and visited Central sta
tion, and said: "The men were absent
ent at the roll call last evening
or this morning. They were de-
serters, even though they did intend to
return. There might have been some degree
of responsibility attached to US if they had
been on leave, but we cannot be blamed.
The men are in trouble through their own
fault. Lester is man VIII gets crazy when
under II, influence of liquor"