The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
..HoAEyT JOHN KELLY's WOES.
Threatened by Two Women with
an Action for Dnmaaes

AN Action for Damages.
NEW YORK, Sept, Honest John
Kelly the sporting man and owner of the
big, gambling house at Forty-first street
and Broadway, is threatened with a suit
for $4,000 damages by a woman, who
charges that he bit one ST her fingers
almost off early on Saturday morning
last:
Honest john who has always prided
himself upon bis dignity and his gentle
manly bshayior to womankind, is deeply
grieved at the charge brought against
him. He declares he did not bite the
woman's finger. In some uneXplainable
way her finger got into his mouth, and
by an extrao. binary coincidence his teeth
closed just a that instant.
The woman whose finger was bitten is
Sylvia Dean. At the same time she
suffered the injury her companion, Helen
Scott, was severely beaten with a cane
She credits the blows to Honest John. "
Both women have retained Lawyer Friend
to look out for their interests. Yester-
day the marks OF the blows received by
the Scott woman were photographed.
Should the case not be compromised the
photographs will be used as evidence in
court.
BIG WINNING FRIDAY.
Kelly,s gambling house made one of
the biggest winnings in its history last
Friday night Scores of out of town
sporting men who came here to see the
Cofbett- Mccoy fight. it is said, patron.
lied the place.
1t was cary Saturday morning when
Kelly left his house tic take a walk. He
was visfbly excited over the happenings
of the night He did not have on a col
lar or necktie an unusual thing for him,
as he pays much attention to his war l.
robe
Kelly went into the cafe of the Delavan
hotel, at Fourteenth street and Broad
way. His mood was liberal and he was
anxious to spend money upon al he met.
In the cafe was a party OF four two
men and two women. The men were
them to drink They declined, saying
they Wee escorting two ladies'.
Ladies'" roared Honest John" and
then he laughed. His manner offended
the two women. and they promptly told
him what they thought Of him in vigorous
English.
Kelly replied in kind, and the two wo-
men followed him out on the street, and
the next instant it was said Kelly was
lying on the sidewalk His hair was yank-
ed out, his; face scratched, and he was
pretty roughly handled, according to by
ISLANDERS, for a minute or two.
TIDE OF BATTLE CHANGED.
Then the tide of battle changed. One
of the women accused Honest john Of
chewing her finger, and the other al
legged hat he had beaten her unmerci-
fully with his cane. The women repeated
their accusations when seen by a World
reporter yesterday. Miss Deans finger
looked as if it had been bitten half a
dozen times. The flesh was lacerated to
the bone A doctor has had to dress the
wounds every day since Saturday.
After this trouble Kelly, few minutes
later, ran across Kid Mccoy and narrow
ly escaped being thrashed by the pugilist.
Honest John accused Mccoy of having
laid down" in his fight with Corbett.
Mccoy started to resent the insult by
punching Kelly, but was induced by
friends to ignore the charge.
Kelly, it is said has made oVertures to
compromise with the two women. The
sum offered was too low and no agree
ment has as yet been reached.
Honest john, it is sad, does not want
the publicity that would attend a trial
of the else in court because Of his gam
bling house. This place has only ! n
raided once by the police in twenty years.
That raid was caused by politicians
two wears ago.