The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-03
Abuse of Lincoln is Resented
by Veteran and a Con-
hict Results
WOUNDED MEN IN
SERIOUS CONDITION
Fight Created Panic in Dining Room
of a Hotel in Gettysburg
Constabulary Trying to Find Man
Who Did the Stabbing.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 3.-Seven
men were stabbed last night in fight
in the diningroom of hotel here as
a result of a fight which started when
several men aroused the anger of an
old veteran in blue by abusing Lincoln.
Several of the wounded men are in a
serious condition at the Pennsylvania
state hospital. The state constabulary
are making desperate efforts to find
the men who did the stabbing. The
wounded men were: Edward J. Carroll,
sergeant of the quartermasters corps,
United States army; David Farbor of
Butler, Pa. a member of the state con-
stabulary; John D. Maugin of Harris
burg, Malcolm Griffin of Bedford City,
Pa, Charles Susler of West Fairview,
Pa, Hayder Renisbecker of Gettysburg
and Harry A. Root, jr., of Harrisburg
! Farbor, Mauoin and Griffin are in
the most serious condition. Their
wounds were in the left breast, and the
surgeon at the Pennsylvania state hos
pital would not venture prediction as
to their chance of recovery. Accord
! ing to all the information the authori-
! ties could gather, the fight started sud
! denly and was over in a few minutes.
i 1t began just before clock, when
the diningroom was full of people and
caused panic among the scores Of
guests. The old veteran, who was un-
hurt. disappeared in the melee. He
had been sitting near Farbor and Car
roll when he heard the sighting re
marks about Lincoln. He jumped to his
feet and began to defend the martyred
president and be1ated his detractors
The men who were stabbed, accord
ing to the information the surgeons
/ gathered jumped to the defense of the
veteran when the others closed in.
Knives were out in a second and the
room was IN an uproar. Women fled for
the doors and crowded to the windows
ready to jump to the street below. 1t
was all over before the rest of the
men in the room could get their breath
and the men responsible for it had all
got out of the way.
The fight spurred the medical men
again last night to the effort to have
the Gettysburg saloons closed during
the remainder of the celebration.
A man was later arrested and eharg
ed with doing the stabbing. and gave
his name as ". B. Henry of Philadel
phia. He claimed to be a son of r
r. Henry of Tazewell, Va, a general il
the confederate army. Henry. with one
or two companions, was seated at ia
bic and there was a general talk abou
the war, which soon developed upl,
feeling. Finally, according to eve wit
nesses, Henry applied a vile epithet t,
Abraham Lincoln. 1t was resented hot
~ by Union veteran, who seized :
glass or bottle and threw it at Henry
Immediately there was an uproar an,
Henry. according to the version th
eonstabulary gives, jumped to his feet
drew knife and began slashing a
those nearest to him. Tables were IN
set, bottles, glasses and other missile
f1ew through the air. One victim sal,
Henry chased him around the room
hrst stabbing him in the arm and thel
stabbing him in the back Henry is de
scribed as a big, handsome, well-dress
! ed man of about 32 After a fierce fob
, Henry was subdued.
II. n. Baker of Pennsylvania Is sal
r to be the Union veteran who took OF
tense at the remarks about Lincoln. {
A. Goldthwaite of Salem seized th
knife and turned it over to the police
Henry was locked up in the county iai
at Gettysburg. He denied that he ha
stabbed any one and said that he wa
IN the fight only to aid Griffin. one O
the wounded men.