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- MB. WELLINGTON SEED■ ... » » , ■ ..... • .Tells VSTjat He Knuwt; About the '‘Broadway \ Exchaujje^ Affair.Mr. WoQington'Xtaed, or Bill Reed, the carpenter, who lives at Ninth and Cherrystreets, oamo to TSiE • JouBHAii office thismorn in# and gave the .following version of the “Broadway Exchange” scrape:^Mr. Reed had attended funeral and onthe way homo stopped in' at' the Exchange . and ordered a “pony” • of blackberry. Before /- he hod . been served Bowling or' Boling, came in and asked the: bartender, Rainoid, .for a pitcher.of beer.’ Rainoid. told him that1 it was: against the -law to sell beer that way; Boling insisted, saying- that there was no one around who would give him (Rainoid) awuy. Rainoid answered that he would not disregard fcho law. for $50 or fifty times that sum. : ;At this juncture Reed said to Ralhold:• j always best to Jjo pn the . safeside,” • ' , Boling turned rpoa Reed, who is a man past middle life, and with a violent oath said: «I will murder you.” At this Rain-: old ran out from behind the Counter and took hold pf. Boling, evidently wishing to prevent trouble. Reed loft immediately, not wishing to provoke Boling to violence, .This is all Mr. Rood personally saw or ’ heard of the affair. He says that he be* lievss that Rainoid acted throughout from good motives and that when he finally Btr'uck Boling, he did it In eelf-defonse..Mr.. Reed' thinks that Henry Boling will not appear to prosecute RdimL knowing, as Mr. Reed thinks he does, that Rainoid is innocent of any charge*oxcopt that he . acted in- self-defense. The fact that Henry Boling refused to get out the • original warrant, and, further, that the / case-haa -been rro-confcmued on account of the absence or the principal witness for the prosecution, these facts go to sustain Mr. Reed’s conjecture. •
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Tue, Nov 18, 1890

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