The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-30
Albert Arday Comes to City
for Rest Cure and Now
Rests" Uncomfortably
Near Death At Hospital.
FOUR COUNTRYMEN
LANGUISH IN JAIL
Spectacle of Arday's Bleed
ing Body and His Means
Believed to Be Indirect
Cause of Patients Death.

Albert Arday, an Hungarian, came
to Richmond from Dayton to visit his
sister. Mrs Louis Sander. for a few
days and enjoy a good rest"
Today he is resting comfortably in
a ward at Reid Memorial hospital
with dangerous knife wound in the
stomach. Four of his fellow country
men, Louis Sander, Mike Kranech,
Louis France and George Such, are
inmates of the county Jail, all suffer
ing from knife wounds, chewed fn-
gers and split heads, caused by blows
from a beer bottle and brass
blackjack"
The fracas took place Saturday.
night on North F street between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. It
was the most sanguinary affair wit
messed in the north end in many
months. The five Hungarians were
arrested by a police squad hurried to
the scene of battle in the police auto
mobile. All of the men except Arday
were arraigned before Mayor Robbins
this morning on a charge of rioting.
pied guilty and were each fined $40
and costs and sentenced TO thirty days
in Jail.
Another Patient Dies.
The spectacle of the bleeding Arday
when he was carried into a ward at
the hospital and his agonized means
are believed to have been the direct
cause of the death of George W.
Roberts, colored, ward patient who
had been recently operated on and
was supposed to be on the road TO
recovery. After the Hungarian was
brought into the ward. Roberts suf-
fered a relapse and died at 5 o'clock
Sunday morning He is a barber.
Arday's condition was considerably
improved today but he was still in a
serious condition.
Il have seen fights in my life but
that Hungarian row Saturday night
had em all beat" was the statement
made by Doc" Fuson, one time polit-
ical car of the north end, to prosecu-
t,r Keller today. Il have heard it
said that one American could whip
four Hunkies. Don't believe il. They
have got it twisted Take IL from me
one Hunky can whip four Americans.
and I'll bet the Emperor of Austria
has some army"
From what the police have been
able to ascertain the riot was the
result of a feud between Dayton and
Richmond Hungarians. II seems that
Mike Kranech on a recent visit to
Dayton was put to flight by several
of his fellow countrymen residing
there
When Albert Arday arrived in Rich
mond Saturday to take the rest cure
he was invited out to see the town.
He was accompanied by his brother
in-law, Sander, proprietor Of a pool
room. All five men visited the Schell
saloon, remaining there only a short
time. On leaving. Louis France. q
bridegroom of three weeks. was hit
over the head with brass slung shot
and the battle was on.
Survival Of Fittest-
It developed into a survival Of the
fittest. Arday went down with knife
cash across his stomach. Sander was
knitted in the back and arm, Kranech
was hit in the head with beer bottle
and George Such got a couple of fing-
ers between the teeth of one COM
batant When the police arrived on
the scene the street looked like a
shambles.
The battle was witnessed by quite a
large crowd and created considerable
excitement.
Mrs. Sander. mother of a three
months old baby. appealed to the po-
lice for assistance while her husband
is serving his Jail sentence and was
turned over to Mrs. Gambler, city mis-
sionary. She and the baby will proba-
bly, be kept at the Home for the
Friendless.