Show i DESPERATE BATTLE IN LOCKED ROOM S BY FOUR MEN Pistols Knives and Dental Instruments Used With Deadly Effect DE DEBT T QUARREL CAUSE Affidavit t Found in Pocket of One May Explain Mystery ST. ST Feb 12 An 12 An affidavit found in Dr Charles W. W Kennerly's Kennedy's pocket pock t this mor morning ing explained the cause of the fight t with pistols knives knies and dental instruments In iii a room in a local hotel last night in which Dr Kennerly of Granite City Ill Dr A. A H. H Johnson of St. St LOuis Wal Walter er A. A Diefenbach of ot San Antonio and Charles Lody St. St Louis were injured Johnson and Kennerly Kennerly Ken Ken- en- en were former college classmates former business partners rs and Jud are fudge brothers In the affidavit copies of which have been sent ent to high Masonic officers here Dr Kennerly accused Johnson of failure failure fail fall ure to pay a 2500 debt and of ot withholding with with- holding other funds which Dr Kennerly Kenner Kenner- ly hy claimed were due him Tie The art affi affidavit davit asked that Dr Johnson be expelled expelled ex ex- from the Masonic order because of the alleged wrongs to Dr Kennerly Johnson Near Death This morning Dr Johnson was near death at the city hospital his face and body terribly slashed and a Wound through both hips and the groin roin made by a single steel-jacketed steel bullet Dr Kennerly also cut ab about t the face and I arms anns was a prisoner at the hospital a police pollee charge against him awaiting the outcome of Johnsons Johnson's Injuries The two other participants in the fight also were prisoners today Deifenbach atthe atthe at atthe the hospital with a great gash in his throat and Lody at police head head- quarters Stories Conflict Highly conflicting stories were told by Kennerly Lody and Diefenbach K Kennerly said he just happened to bein bein be bein in Diefenbach's room when Lody and Dr Johnson entered the latter with a pistol in one hand and a knife in theother the i ot other er Kennerly saId he came to St. St Louis to collect the money he lie claims claims' from Johnson but denied he used a revolver or that he fought except in I self defense S Lody said that as assistant to 10 Dr John Johnson on he accompanied the latter to Diefenbach's ch's room on a professional l call can Diefenbach according according- to Lody had posed as as' as Mr Air Arnold and nd had requested Dr Johnson to perform ta tal work for tor Mrs Arnold in their room roomS As he and Dr Johnson stepped into the room Lody said Diefenbach attacked Lody and Dr Kennerly attacked Dr Johnson I Dummy in Bed On the bed tv two pillows and a sheet were crudely molded into the form fonn of ot the woman Dr Johnson was Vas to t treat eat Lody admitted cutting Dr Kennerly and Diefenbach but said he did it only to save his own life and that of his employer Dr Johnson Diefenbach admitted registering as Mr 11 and Mrs Irs D. D M. M Arnold of Mobile Ala He lIe said Dr Kennerly had ar arranged arranged arranged ar- ar ranged the dummy on the bed and promised to tell tep everything later in the day |