Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-10
TWO ARE SHOT
AT MILLT0WN.
Saloon BraWi Ended in Attempt
at Murder Woman and Man
Are the Victims.
BOTH ARE LIKELY TO RECOVER

VI tAAC eSs@h~rCahsANNpth y Ill4uOE 10
Said I'd Have Started the Fight.
Womcnl Interfere and Try to Part
Men but FaiI-sheriff Notified by
Telephone and Detectives Sent.
MILLTQWN, Dec 10:- -Milltown
experience the most serious disturb
ance in rs history early Saturday
evening when Frederick Richter, pro-
prietor of the hotel, THE Resort" on
upper Main street, shot and wounded
Harvey Fine, twenty years of age, and
professional baseball player of Mill.
town, and the latter's sister, Mrs.
Van Arsdale. after quarrel in the
barroom Of the hotel beginning, 1t
is said. with Fines criticism of the
quality of Richter's liquor. AS re-
suit of the affair Fine lies at his
home at Milltown with bulelt
wound in his hip, Mrs. Van Arsdale
has bullet wound in the back, be-
tween the shoulder blades, and Rich
ter is held at the jail on two charges
of atrocious assault and battery. Fine
is also under bail for $1,000 on
charges by Mr.. and Mrs. Richter, of
atrocious assault and battery with
intent to kill.
| Harvey Fine and his brother
Charles, it seems, had been out gun
ming during the day, and returned
about 4:30, somewhat the worse for
liquor. According to Mrs. Richter's
story, Harvey was in a quarrelsome
mood, and began to pass words over
the quality of the liquor Richter, 1t
seems, further infiamed Fines tenn
per by telling him that he could go
elsewhere.
Threw Pool Balls Around.
Later, during game of pool, the
Fines, it is said, began to throw the
pool balls around knock the cues on
the floor, and raise a general disturb
ance. Richter objected to the noise,
and requested them to cease, at
which, 1t is alleged, Harvey Fine
called Richter vile name. Richter
objected a second time to the disturb
ance, and, it is claimed, Harvey Fine
went behind the bar, knocked Rich
ter down and began to punch and
kick him.
At this point, it seems, Mrs. Rich
ter and Charles Fine intervened and
managed to pull Harvey away, who,
however, threw them aside and grab
bed one of the two shotguns lying on
the bar. His brother wrested the gun
from him, and Harvey obtained the
other one, but was put out on the
front porch before he could use 1t,
whatever his intention was. Mrs.
Richter then locked the barroom
door.
Determined to get in, the infuriat-
ed Harvey, using the stock of his
shotgun, broken in the glass of one of
| the barroom windows, smashed the
glass of the barroom door and then
going to the private entrance of the
hotel, fired through the glass above
| the door and riddled the ceiling. 1t is
alleged that he then thrust the barrel
of the gun through the window be-
hind the bar, and pulled the trigger.
while Mrs. Richter had hold of the
barrel and was endeavoring to take
the gun away from him.
Mrs. Richter has turned the bar
rel down, and the discharge, passing
through her apron and dress, bored
through the floor. Her dress was set
afire, but she managed to smother 1t
with her hands.
Woman Takes Part.
| In the meantime, Fines sister, Mrs.
Van Arsdale, had heard of the trou-
Bile, and tried to get Harvey away.
The latter, however, continued his eff
forts to get in and began to batter at
the barroom door. At this point, 1t
| is said, Richter obtained a rusty re-
volver which he kept in the house and
standing on the steps at the end of
/ the bar, leading to the private part
of the house, about fifteen feet from
the front door, began to fire at mis-
assailant through the broken pane in
the door The first shot struck Fine,
second cartridge failed to discharge
and the third struck Mrs. Van Ars-
dale, whom, Richter declares, he did
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row and the wounded couple were
taken to their homes. where they
were attended by DR.. F. E. Riva.
Fines story, as told to the sheriff's
men, is that the affair started over a
game of pool and that he exchanged
fisticuffs with Richter. Fine says that
during the, fight his brother told him
to run or Richter would shoot him.
Harvey then ran out he declares,
with shotgun, and when he got out
on the parch he heard his brother in
side begging for mercy and beseech-
ing Richter not to shoot him. Har-
vey at once turned back, and tried
to batter his way into the barroom
in order to go to his brothers aid,
despite his sisters opportunities.
Richter, Fine says, then fired at him
| through the door.
Sheriff Is Notified.
Several citizens of the town, in the
meantimefi notified the sheriff of the
trouble by phone, and asked that he