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The Indianapolis News
July 31, 1876


                    A Disgraceful Gathering
                    
              The Sunday picnic gathering at Schur-
            man's park yesterday was a most disgraceful
            affair, the worst elements of the city being
            out in full force and being unrestrained, 
            held full away in their drunken revelings.
            Late in the afternoon the HARTER gang put
            in their appearance, and being seconded by
            CLARENCE, McCUNE, BILL WALLACE, BILL SMITH,
            and other hoodlums of this stripe, kept up
            a continuous fight for several hours, re-
            volvers and knives being drawn and used with
            indifferent success. Scores of men and women
            came out of the affray with scared faces and
            bruised bodies, none of them however serious-
            ly injured except CHARLES WAGNER, who was
            attacked by the mob and shamelessly beaten.
            Merchant policemen HARRISON and COULTER were
            perfectly powerless to maintain order, and 
            as Chief DENEY very properly refused to fur-
            nish police protection outside of the city
            limits, the drunken crowd was unmolested in
            its shameless doings.There seems to be an im-
            perative demand for the county authorities
            to take immediate measures to ward suppress-
            ing a repetition of yesterday's outrage.
              Under the impression that WAGNER'S in-
            juries would prove fatal, JOHN KELLY was
            arrested this morning by officers STOFER
            and STEVENS, and held on a charge of murder,
            he being the party suspected of inflicting
            the assualt. KELLY had a severe cut over
            his hand, which he received during the en-
            counter, and when arrested today was still
            under the influence of liquor.
              While the injuries of WAGNER are of a very
            painful charater (sic), they are not pronounced
            at all fatal, and in fact his recovery is ex-
            tremely probable. CHRISTENA KOONTZ and IDA
            HENSLEY were also wanted by officer CARR, and
            are held as active participants in yesterday's
            proceeding at the park. The owner of the 
            premises assures The News that another such
            gathering shall never congregate there with
            his consent.
              Late this afternoon the following additional
            arrests were made in connection with this af-
            fair, the participants being held on a charge
            of riot: IDA RAGAN, HATTIE JOHNSON, SALLIE
            HAGGERTY, JENNIE COLEMAN, IRA HARTER, ELLEN
            HARTER, J. W. MORGAN, CLARENCE McCUE, MOLLIE
            HARTER, RUSSIA EINATZ, HARRIET THOMPSON, JOHN
            KENNEDY.
            
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