New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-03
Riot in Restaurant of GettyS-
burg Hotel When Union SOL
dier Is Protected Against
PiCkpOCkets.
ONE MAN Is ARRESTED
Reunions Give Healthier Tone
to Camp, Chatting Taking
the Place of Moist Eyes
Governor Sulzer
Welcomed.

from stan Correspondent O. The Tribune.l
Gettysburg. Penn. July 2.-seVen
men. including a regular army soldier
and a member of the state constabu-
harry. were stabbed here tonight be-
cause a young thief took Abraham Lin
coins name in vain. It was a Union
veteran who began the hostilities. The
wounded are those who went TO his aid'
The pickpocket, though raped on the
, head with the butt of the state troop
er's revolver, escaped.
1t all happened in the crowded res
taurant Of the Gettysburg Hotel. The
old veteran, believed TO be II. N
Baker. OF Alexander, Penn, was seated
opposite two young men eating peace
eblv. Some Of the wounded told the
police later that these two young men
seemed TO be picking a quarrel with
the old man for the purpose of picking
his pocket. The latter paid no atten-
ton TO them until in desperation they
applied the fighting epithet to Lin
| coins name.
Things happened so quickly then
that the details are vague. The Union
soldier. il is supposed hurled sugar
| bowl at his tormentors and they
reached for him over the table. But
before they could hurt him group OK
| incensed diners had scrambled over
chairs and tables TO the scene OF con-
fict. They made It so hot for the two
thieves that one of them drew knife
and began carving his way TO the door.
] He stabbed Charles Ensor. OF West
| Fairview, Penn; Hayden Heinbocker,
Of Gettysburg; Edward j. Carroll a
sergeant in the Quartermaster's Depart
ment. United States Army; Daniel Far
ber, OF Butler, Penn, state trooper;
John d. Magin. OF Harrisburg; Nal
colin Griffin, of Bedford City. Va. and
Harry A. Roat. Of Harrisburg.
Farber tried TO beat him into insen-
sibilty with the butt of his heavy re-
volver, but the pickpocket stuck him.
and squirmed out Of his reach. Once
on the street the two thieves were lost
in the big, slow crowds, which made
, pursuit next to impossible. 1t is not
thought that any Of the wounded is
seriously hurt. They were all taken to
the Pennsylvania State Hospital.
| When the knives were drawn the
room was thrown into an uproar.
Women fed 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.
w. b. Henry, who said he was son
of r. r. Henry. Of Tazewell. Na.'
a Confederate general, was arrested
later and taken TO the Gettysburg JAIL
accused Of the stealing. His head bore
marks from the butt of troopers re-
yolver. He protested vigorously that
he stabbed 20 one. He said he had
drawn no knife, had had no knife to
draw, in fact He insisted that he had
been eating with Griffin, one OF those
stabbed, and had got into the fight
by going to Griffin's rescue.
Another day Of reunions impaired a
healthier tone to this vast camp of
aged veterans. The amazing vitality
of the old boys has relieved every ones
mind and has helped sweep away the
morbid element in the reunion atmos-
phere. The old soldiers have begun to
forget the overwhelming significance
OF this formal and wonderfully staged
drama OF forgiveness, and in large de-