The age-herald., 1898-03-15
HOT TIME IN
 K|MBALL HOUSE Orth Stein and Judge Berry in
 Free Fight. PISTOL AND CATSUP BOTTLE Were Yielded With Terrible Effect by
 the Irate Judge. SPECTATORS PANIC STRICKEN Sensational Encounter Occurred in the Dining-Room at the Supper Hour. BOTH PARTIES MAKE STATEMENTS Stein Says that Berry Slipped Upon Him and Hit Him With the Bottle and Then
 Kicked Him in the
 Face.
Sensational Encounter Occurred in the Dining-Room at the Supper Hour.
BOTH PARTIES MAKE STATEMENTS

Atlanta, March 1.-The dining room of the Kimball house was the scene today of a sensational encounter between Judge John Berry of the city court of Atlanta and Orth Stein, the well-known newspaper man, and at present editor of the Looking Glass; a weekly publication. The dining room was well filled and the affair ere ated the greatest excitement, many ladies and gentlemen, seeing the blood-be- smeared face of one of the combatants and a pistol flashing in the hands of the other, becoming panic-Stricken
 Both Judge Berry and MT. Stein board at the Kimbal, and were at dinner at the same hour tonight. According to Stein, Judge Berry walked up to him, unknown and without word, struck him across the forehead with bottle of catsup cutting an ugly gash and knocking Stein out of his chair to the floor. Berry then, Stein says, kicked him several times in the face, mak- Ing bad wounds. Stein drew his revolver, but in getting it out of his pocket he un- loosed the breech. Berry quickly seized the gun and pummeled Stein with it until he was nearly unconscious and his face cov- cred with blood. The walters and some of the guests, who had by this time mus tered up courage enough to approach the two men, separated them and removed them from the dining room.
 Judge Berry's Side
 Judge Berry's side of the affair differes somewhat from the statement made by Stein. The judge says he walked up to Stein and spoke to him, saying, How do you do." Stein did not reply and Berry then struck him. The revolver, Judge Berry says, was drawn intact from Steins pocket, and in order to prevent him from using it he Berry) unbreeched it. Berry was ar
 
 morning.
 The direct cause of today's attack was an article in the last issue of Steins paper but the real trouble dates back some months and has bearing on the subject given MT Stein's publication.
 Several months ago, it IS said that at a dinner at which Judge Berry and J. w. English, Jr, a promnet politician were present, remarks made by Berry caused English to throw wine in Berrys face Ten days ago at the Capitol City, Atlanta's swell club, Judge Berry and the Englishes, father and son, engaged in a fight. This quarrel grew out of a remark attributed to Judge Berry. Capt. English said he had heard that he (Berry) had said that he (English) was backing the Looking Glass Mr. Berry denied that he had made the statement as a fact, but Capt English re- piled that he had authority for it, at the same time knocking Berry to the floor and henouncing him. J. w. English, Pr, then appeared on the scene and accused Berry of making statements about him too. This was followed by second set-to in which Judge Berry was badly bruised
 Judge Berry gave out statement to- night in which he says:
 Has Ragged Him
 "The editor of the Looking Glass for more than a year, in fact, since I have been upon the bench, has been nagging at me- using every effort on his part to bring me into discredit and to injure my character. I have tolerated this as long as I could and I decided to take vigorous steps. I had heard that he boasted tnat he was man who cared nothing for his own life and that he always went armed. Last Saturday he saw fit to print in his paper something which was attended to bring me into ridicule and contempt.
 'I saw MT. Stein come into tine Kinball house dining room tonight a few minutes after I had gone in myself. He looked re- peatedly at me, as though he were en- deavorng to jeer me, and he continued to look at me from time to time.
 Feeling that endurance, as well as for