The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-22
RECKLESS DESRA
Uses Dirk knife Upon an 0p-
ponent of Breckenridge.
Bullying Friend HeIps---An Attempt
TO Make a Judge Fight.
by Ths Associated Press.

LEXINGTON, kN,, sept. &s.--lJcsna Breck-
,nridge had a sensational alteration with
James -. Livingston, formerly of New
York city In the Phoenix hotel at $3.50
yesterday afternoon. Livingston was
standing at the news AL cigar stand read
Ing an afternoon paper When Desha Brock
inridge came and bought package Of
cigarcts. Livingston spoke 10 Desha and
extended his hand, saying: 1T is all over
now; we ought 90 be friends. shake
hands"
Brccknridge, with an angry look on his
face, replied: mo; you one-horse scoun-
drei, Will not take your hand. You pro
fcss 20 be a mans friend and then stab
him In the back"
Livingston replied TO this by saying that
he had done nothing Of the kind. Then
Brcckinridge called him id liar, and
Livingston then struck at Desha and
knocked his glasses or. following this up
with blow on the neck.
Desha reached for his hip pocket, and
Instantly there flashed in the air the long,
bright blade Of big dirk. Livingston, in
a moment OF desperation, grabbed at the
giittering blade, which Breckenridge had
aimed at his heart. The knife went be-
tween the second and third fingers of his
right hand cutting the third finger to the
bone.
Brockinridge seemed to desire no more
blood, but gave Livingston two strong
kicks. The hotel clerks and several by
ISLANDERS rushed I'm and seized Breckin-
ridge and at the same instant Matt Lane,
a Breckinridge man, ran up and said he
would take hand in helping Desha
Two witnesses say that Lane also -four
ished big knife, but Lane denies this.
A friend then took Livingston home i'm
buggy and Desha Breckenridge went to his
rooms across the street.
A Row with q Judge.
just before the tIpublo occurred with
Livingston, Desha and Lane who were
walking up Main street, had met Judge
kinkead, who made several speeches dur
ing the campaign, denouncing Colonel
Breokinridge. Desha Breckinridge said to
Judge Kinkead that now that the election
was over he wanted TO tell him that he
was liar.
He also applied several vile epithots to
the judge, who replied that he was un-
armed and did not want TO have any diff
Guilty In the open street. Desha told him
TO go and arm himself, and no would meet
him anywhere and at any time. He re-
peated this several times. Then Lane
who recently came here from Mount
Sterling, said, addressing the Judge: $50
this Is Judge Kinkead, is itf When you
you said that decent people would not en-
tertain Colonel Breckinridge, you lied.
NV sister entertained him in Woodford
county" Lane then applied to Kinkead
an epithet rejecting upon the ancestry of
the judge.
The judge again said that he wanted no
trouble on the street and that he was not
armed, when Lane threw his coat off and
said that he was not armed either, and
then repeated the language that he had
previously used TO tho Judge. Kinkead
then walked out on the street toward his
home.
Lane said to reporter: eyes, called
him a name, and will fight him any
way he wants to fight, and what is more
if any of his friends want TO take il up, /
will fight them, too"
The End Not Yet
BY this time a number of strong Owens |
men began to crowd into the lobby of the |
hotel. One OF fBrecklnridge's friends, fear |
ing that there would be trouble with Lane, |
persuaded him 20 leave the hotel
Then the Ovens men began 10 talk, and |
one OF them, who has the reputation Of not |
Knowing what fear is, said: 'If Desha
Breckinridge and his friends intend
TO externinate all those who worked
for Owens, as they seem TO want to do.
they will have 10 enlarge the cemetery.
This sort OF thing won't do, no matter
how sore they are They may just as well
take their medicine"
Livingston is a man Of about 80 years of
age and was . strong Owens man, and
worked nigh. and day for the victorious
candidate lie is from New York city.
and 1t is said he belonged to Tammany.
While his wound was being dressed he
said: 81 took Desha's abuse and made no
attempt to resent IL until he called me a
liar. Then l had to hit him / think I
saved myself from fatal stab by grab
bing his knife"
Judge Kinkead is about le years Of age
He has always been considered a man OF
the highest physical courage and every
body expects that more blood will bc shed
bfo fa |