MADERA   MERCURY Madera, Madera County, California Thursday, May 22, 1902 LAWYERS SCRAP. _________ Come to Blows in Court and Finished in a Hall. _________    H. H. Welsh, of Fresno, and W. H. Larew, attorneys engaged in a scrap in the court room today, just after court adjourned for the noon recess.  Mr. Larew was struck on the cheek, but sustained no visible damage.  He retaliated by making two ill-timed leads for Welsh's head.  No one was hurt.     The difficulty occurred during the hearing of the petitions of C. Charlie and R. C. Jay, for letters of administration on the estate of Yee Chung, deceased, C. Charlie being the person nominated by the wife of the dead Chinaman.  Mr. Welsh was the Chinaman's attorney.     R. C. Jay, the Public Administrator, through his attorney, W. H. Larew, also petitioned for letters.  It was set up in the petition that Yee Chung had a wife and children in China, and that therefore the woman claimed as his wife here was not his wife, and therefore did not have the right to name the administrator.  In the same petition it was set up that the children of Yee Chung were illegitimate.     Mr. Welsh put witnesses on the stand to prove that Yee Chung had no wife in China, and it made his choler rise to think that an attorney would put in such a petition.     Mr. Larew insinuated that the testimony offered by Mr. Welsh was perjured, to which the Fresno attorney responded by calling opposing counsel a liar.  Mr. Larew passed the word back and there the incident ended.  When the court adjourned, Mr. Welsh approached Larew and struck him as above stated.     This afternoon the trial concluded without any renewal of hostilities, the court granting letters of administration to Mr. Welsh's client, C. Charlie.     The court then had an inning, stating that the contempt proceedings that had been set for 5 o'clock might as well be disposed of at once and called upon the gentlemen to state why they should not be punished from the attack; that he wasn't seeking any quarrel and so forth.     Mr. Welsh stated that he had known the deceased Chinaman for many years, and knew the statements in the petition of counsel were false.  It made him angry that the attorney should attempt to illegitimize Yee Chung's children and led him to make the remarks he had.  As to the scrap, Mr. Welsh was magnanimous enough to state that he alone was to blame for that, and asked the court not to be punished Mr. Larew.  He believed that the court was adjourned and though that that was the time to settle the matter with Larew.     The court read the gentlemen a friendly lecture, stating to them that there was a doubt in his mind whether there was any contempt committed while court was in session, and asked the attorneys to be more careful in the future.  He did not wish to be arbitrary and impose a find or send them to prison as that would not do any good probably, and as it was the first time anything like that had been committed in his court, he would dismiss the matter.     Shortly after court was adjourned the attorneys went into Athletic hall to settle the matter, Mr. Larew accepting the invitation from Welsh.  When the men came out of the hall, Mr. Larew had a black eye and a lump on his forehead the size of an egg.  One of the bones on his right hand was broken.  He was having the swelling of his eye reduced in Hunter's drug store.     He said that he and Mr. Welsh went one round with their shoes on, but as the floor was slippery they took their shoes off and went at it again.  He says that he was stronger than Welsh and would have got the better of him but he was made to break away by Mr. Hughes who was present as a spectator. _________