The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-08
NJ PLEADED NOT GlJLTY
Mas Charged With StaDblnS John B.
Stone on Wendell Street.
TIE SEQUEL TO AN ELoPEMENP
Stone started After Randall to funish
Him and Fired Five shots. None of
which Took Enect-1hen He suffered
From Randalrs knife.

Two mon struggling for the posses
sion OF young woman, created consider
able excitement on Broadway yesterday
afternoon. and when short time later
= brick. revolver and knife came into
play the excitement almost exceeded
bounds. The cause of the disturbance
was effort on the part OF Walter .. Ran
dali, a young man, 10 gain possession OF
his WIFE Clara Randall. formerly Berl-
ston, aud the attempts to Illustrate his
efforts by Mrs Randalrs father.
1t appears that Randall formerly lived
in the village of Oaklawn In the town OF
Crnnston, and in the same house lived
John Berlston. his wife aud daughter
Carrie
Randall's parents died, and he was asked
TO live with the Berlstons. In time he be-
came enamored of Carrie, proposed and
was accepted, the rroviso being that he
should first save up enough money with
which to set up housekeeping.
The course of true love ran smoothly
until about 2 1-2 years ago. when Carrie
came into the city to live with John b.
Stone, who had married Mrs Berlston's
sister.
Randall found that this was device to
separate him from Carrie, but he managed
tp see her now and then and
Planned An Elopement.
He procured a license from the town
clerk in Johnston, and waited three weeks
for chance to use it. One day he met
Carrie by appointment, they boarded
street car and came into Providence and
were married, taking up their residence
with friend on West Friendship street.
-Four or five days later, while going to
his work. Randall met Berlston and Stone,
who asked where Carrie was. They were
told that she was Randall's wife, and where
she was stopping. That night when Ran
dali returned home he found his wife had
gone of with her two relatives. Randall
tried to get his wife by habeas corpus
writ, but the young wife decided to stay
with her parents.
Smarting under the enforced separation.
Randall decided to see his wife, whether
her father liked it or not. He knew that
she attended the service for French resi-
dents at the Broadway Baptist church
Sunday afternoons, and yesterday he went
TO the church door to
Wait For Her Coming Out.
When the services were over Carrie and
her father came out. and without any par
ley, Randall stepped to her side. Berlston
seized his daughter and pulled her to one
side, and at the same time gave Ran
dall push. The two men instantly came
together, but not much fighting was done,
Tor the patrolman interfered.
Randall talked with his wife all the way
home, and at the corner Of Brayton avenue
and Wendell street the two men had
another tussel and were again separated
by the policeman.
Then Berlston and his daughter went
down Chaplin avenue to the house where
they and Stone reside, and Randall walked
of toward Wendell street.
Berlston must have told Stone what had
happened, and Stone must have gone out
cunning for Randall, for the latter soon
Discovered That He Was Pursued.
When Stone got near he began to fire q
Randall with a revolver. He was not q
good shot, still he managed to put two out
Of i've bullets through Randall's clothing,
and was about to fire again, having a
eeven-shoottr, when Randall threw brick
at him and then closed in, knocked him
down and stabbed him twice with q big
pocket knife
A large crowd had gathered, and Ran
DALI was seized before he could cut Stone
aeain.
Randall was taken to station 4, and
Stone was sent to the Rhode Island hos
pital. There it was discovered that he had
sustained one unimportant cut on his left
shoulder, and that he had been severely
stabbed in his left side.
The seventh rib had been shattered by
che force of the blow, and he was in such
condition that it was deemed best to wait
until morning before examining the wound
60 determine whether the lung had been
punctured.
Stone Is "a years of age and Randall A.
The latter has a good reputation aud is
steady workman.
Randall was brought into the Sixth
District court this morning, and was ar
raigned on the charg' OF making vio-
lent assault on John Stone He pleaded
not guilty aud was held in 81, 500 surety
for trial May 16.