The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-25
SLAV MINER
KILLED L IN FIGHT
MICHAEL LAzAR SHOT WHILE EN-.
GAGGED AT WEDDING cELE-
7RATioN ON SUNDAY
MORNING.

HRATioN ON SUNDAY
MORNING.
Michael Lazar. a siay miner employ
Ell by the Fairnont Coal Company,
was shot Sunday morning at one-thIr-
ty o'clock while celebrating a we'd:
ding and died yesterday afternoon at
Cooks Hospital. The shooting oc.
Cured at house No. lie Mt Mo.
nonsah. The celebration grew
warm and noisy and an eight
gallon gek of beer was conducive
In intensifying the feelings OF the
celebration. the noise attracted the
attention of Officers William FIndlay
and j. o. Shaver who went to the
house and asked the men to be quiet
and not disturb the neighbors nor des-
ecrate Sunday. The men were not in
clined to settle themselves and made
1t. manifest that they did not appre.
ciate the visit OF the officers. There
was no lull in the gaiety of the crowd
and when the officers saw that they
intended to keep up their cursing AMI
blackguardins. George Yauczich, the
man of the house was told that II he
did not put a stop to the evening of
Eaiety that he would be arrested! =
He gave the officers to understand
that he would neither have 1t stopped
nor would he be put to Jail.
Officers Flndley and Shaver saw tina.
they would have to act. They arrested
the proprietor and when they attempt
ed to take him from the house score,
OF men closed In on them from all
sides. The door was blockadeil but.
the officers succeeded in fighting their
way to the outside to small porch,
here The battle increased In violence
and In the number of participants. Dur
l Ing the sstrrggle tbs. porch .gnxe
lanl. the officers fen and men three to-
four deer, fell on them. Chairs and
pieces of boards and knives were fIv-
ing through the air. One Slav made
four attempts to cut Findlay's throat.
The assailant with the knife Had to
reach over another Slav who had Find
lay by the neck. The middle man hero
was the officers protection. Findlay
came out. OF the scrap little hurt. Sha-
yer did not get Off SO well. In the
scramble some one hit him. over the
hand with chair breaking two meta
carpal bones in his right hand.
1t was during the fight following the
collapse OF the porch that the shot
was fired that struck Lazar The
i e. haf fNro
ter and this gave the officers chance
to get on their feet. The men still
scattered. The officers arrested one
man and he was taken to the town
lookup. The officers went back to the
scene but could only find two men
that they could Identify as being in
the fight.
Lazar was carried to house near.
by and DR.. J.. A. Refdy was
summoned to give him surgical aid.
DIR. Reidy found that the wounded
man should be sent to the hospital.
lie was sent to Cook Hospital where
he died yesterday afternoon Mt 2:3G
O'clock
All this had transpired and 1t was
several hours more before the cor
oner and the prosecuting attorney
were notified that man had been
killed. The coroner learned that the
body OF the dead man had been taken
TO the II. l.. Cunningham morguc
where 1t was prepared for burial.
Coroner Amos held n conference
with Prosecuting Attorney Lowe and
1t was decided that the coroner should
inquire into the cause by question:
Ing the officers and men who resisted
them to see IL their stories correspond
ed and II they did not then IN inquest
should be held.
Officers Findlay and Shaver were
in the city to-day. They disclaim any
knowledge us to who did the shoot
Ing. The officers feel that the men
that did the fighting were looking for
trouble and that they wanted to shoot
the officers. They were unusually
noisy and congregated. Mt place
where they could make the greatest
annoyance. Among them were several
visitors from Kilarm who were angry
with the officers for having arrested
some OF their comrades. It is said
that these Kilarm men had told 9TH
ers that they intended to come to Mo-
nongah and start a racket and then
get Shaver, and Findlay. 1t Is thought
fhnt thew started fhis Rpht for thpt