The age-herald., 1902-03-16
AFFRAY CASES
 ARE PASSED
TRIAL OF LINDSAYs, VENABLES AND CURREY SET FOR NEXT FRlDAY-MR. LINDSAY GIVES HIS SIDE OF THE AFFAIR.

The cases dSdluSL lue pdI IlClpdulo in the Lindsay y-Currey-Venable affray, which occurred Friday morning in Venable's Place on Nineteenth street were passed until next Friday morn- ing at 10 o'clock. The cases were set for yesterday morning before Judge Feagin.
 Those arrested and held to answer charges of affray were W. M. Lindsay, Paul Lindsay, G. R. Currey, John Ven- able and Oscar Venable. The affray caused considerable excitement at the time, as 1t happened in most promi- nent place and the combatants are all wei known persons. MT. Lindsay made the following statement in re- gard to the affair yesterday:
 When Paul came into the store observed he was much excited, and when I saw he was bleeding from the back of his head, and had bled quite profusely, asked what was the mat ter and he said Currey had hit him with a weight belonging to the scales in the express office. He was hit from behind; he was a boy; Currey was a man. Currey had violated my warn ing, which provoked this difficulty be- tween him and Paul. I immediately concluded I would go over and see MT. Currey and find out why he struck the boy. I went over, but alone. l left Paul behind at the store, as can be abundantly established. I went alone to the Currey entrance, and was there met by John Venable, and not Oscar Venable. He refused to allow me to enter, saying I could not come in there. Oscar Venable was not near the door during the time I was talking to John Venabie, trying to get in, tell ing him I did not wish to see him, but it was Mir. Currey I wanted to see. He refused to allow me to enter there, and I asked him to send MT. Currey outside This he refused to do.
 q looked around saw the entrance near the soda fount was open, and entered there, Paul was not with me then. Oscar Venable says he was. When 1 entered Currey and Oscar Venable were stand ing close together nearly In front of the
 
 and asked him why he struck my son. He said why do you suppose" Why should I know? said I. Why was it? Currey replied he called me a scoundrel.' Said I, Didn't you call him one first or speak to him first? He said, did not
 Then said I, You are a scoundrel,' and immediately struck him. He staggered, as he did so I threw my left arm around his neck and was proceeding to deal him a blow in .the face, when Oscar Venable struck at me. I evaded the blow, and as I went down on the floor, the re- suit of a damp floor, and the slick rub Der sole on the shoe on my lame foot. l slipped-no one knocked me down-I threw my right arm around Oscar Vena- ble's neck and carried him down also. My face was towards the door; my lame side was parallel with the soda counter. l was pretty well engaged with these two, when some one began kicking me on my right side
 'I was reaching my right over to Cur rey's throat when I was kicked below my right elbow, which momentarily paralyzed my right arm. looked up to see who was doing the kicking. As l did so John Ven able kicked me in the head. My body will testify to this treatment. In the short view I took I saw I was being overpow- cred by numbers It seemed to me l was being bounced upon by horde Of peo- pie. I saw it was useless to remain where I was, provided I was not killed before l could get up. I made tremendous lunge upward and succeeded in temporarily throwing off the weight. l rose to my feet. This let Currey and o. Venable up. I was up but a moment when l was borne to the floor by six or seven, which lfl- cludes Currey, John and Oscar Venabiej a younger son of Venable. whose name l do not know, a boy who is, as l believe, employed by Currey, and one or two others.
 'While I was down I was severely beaten by them. do not know how l got to my feet. but when I did this entire crowd surrounded me and pummelled and pushed me towards the door. Oscar ana John Venable having now taken charge of the affair. they both abused me, telllng me to get out of their place When saw how completely I was overpoWered' at once ceased all resistance and tolo them I would leave the place peaceably IT they would allow me to do so. Then It was that Oscar and John Venable seemed to become intensely infuriated. They acted as if the difficulty was between me ana them instead of between me and Currey.
 Just as I was forced to the door John Venable ran back in his place, ana when he returned he held in his uplifted nanos one of the iron chairs his place IS turhlsh ed with. When I saw the apearance oi his face, contorted by rage, the cnair uplifted, and coming down on my heao' l certainly thought it was all over with me. This chair struck me just over anu on my right eye, but was relieved of much -A f&n AxK