The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-03
Peaceful Reunion at Gettys-
burg Marred by Deplor-
able Incident-Several
Seriously Wounded
INCIDENT SPURS
EFFORTS TO HAVE
ALL SALOONS CLOSED
Veteran in Blue Resents Remarks
About Lincoln-Rain in Gettys-
burg Brings Needed Relief.
Thousands Leave for
Their Homes

Gettysburg. Pa. July 2.-seven men
were stabbed tonight In fight in the
dining room of the Gettysburg hotel
as result of fGht which started
when several men aroused the nnger
of m old veteran In blue by abusing
Lincoln. Several of the wounded men
are In n serious condition at the Penn-
sylvania state hospital.
The state eonstabulary are making
desperate efforts to find the men who
did the stabbing.
The wounded men we're Edward J.
Carroll. sergeant of the quartermas-
ters' corps, U. S. A.; David Farbor of
Butler, Pa, member of the state con-
stabulary; John d. Maugin. HARRIS
burg: Malcolm Griffin of Bedford city,
Pa; Charles susler of West Fairview,
Pa; Hayder Renisbeeker Gettysburg,
and Harry A. Root. Jr.. Harrisburg
Farbor. Maugin and Griffith are in
the most serious conditions
Surgeons at the Pennsylvania state
hospital would not venture predictions
|
Started Suddenly
According to all the information the
authorities could gather the night start
| ed suddenly and was over in a few min
utes. 1t began shortly before z O'clock
when the dining room was full of peo.
pie and caused a panic among the
scores of guests. The veteran who
was unhurt and disappeared in the
melee was sitting near Farbor and
Carroll, when he heard the sighting
remarks about Lincoln. lie jumped to
his feet and began to defend the
martyied PRESIDENT aud berated his de-
tractors. The men who We're stabbed,
according to the information the sur
geons gathered, jumped to the defense
of the veteran when the others closed
| IN Knives were out in a second and
the room WAS thrown into an uproar
1t was all over before the rest of the
men in the room could get their breath
and the men responsible for it all had
fed. The fight spurred the medical
men again tonight to an effort to have
the Gettysburg saloons closed during
the remainder of the celebration.
| The constabulary later arrested "A
man who gave the name OF w b.
Henry and said his home was in Cams
den, N. j., as one of the men concerned
in the affray.
The men who the police charge with
doing the stabbing gave his name a W.
b. Henry, Philadelphia. He claimed to be
son of r. r. Henry of Tazewell, Va
a general in the Confederate army
Henry, with one or two companions.
was seated at a table and there was a
| general talk about the war which soon
. q frlx
| ing to eye Witnesses, Henry applied a
vile epithet to Abraham Lincoln. 1t was
| resented hotly by a union veteran who
| seized glass or bottle and threw it at
! Henry. Immediately there was an uproar
and Henry according to the version the
eonstabulary gives. jumped to his feet.
drew knife and began slashing at those
nearest to him. Tables were upset, bot-
| ties, glasses and other missiles flew
| through the air. One eye witness said
Henry chased him around the room, first
stapblng MIN In the arm, then stabblng
him in the back.
Henry is described as a big, handsome
well dressed man of about 32 After a
fierce fight Henry was subdued
Ii. N. Baker of Pennsylvania Is said to
be. the union veteran who took offenss
at the remarks about Lincoln.
Z. A. Goldthwate of Salem, Mass
seized the knife and turned it over to the
police.
Henry was locked up in the county jail
here. He denied that he had stabbed
any one and said that he was in the fight
only to aid Griffin, one of the wounded
men.
A roaring storm swept down out of
the Blue Ridge plateau of Gettysburg
today, bringing needed relief to thous-
ands of veterans in blue and gray who
have sweltered for four days in an at
mosphere dangerous in city of $4,000
old and weary men. For more than
half hour the rain came pouring down
upon the sun cracked and wind swept
, encampment ground. 1t charged with
violent laundering over the ground
that Pickett covered in 63. Its salvoes
, of thunder were like the booming guns
/, of Meade and Lee but the Thermometer
dropped with wonderful agility and the
lightning cleared the air of its burden
of humidity.
The veterans lashed down their tents
and showed they had not forgotten the old
days, for not a tent was blown over so
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