The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-17
A NEGRO BROIL.
The Free Use of the Knife.
A Nan Cut Probably Fatally.

Lafayette and Franklin streets, in front of
Mrs. SCOTS bar-room, occurred one of those
now too frequent negro ARRAYS which invari-
ably end in the shedding of blood. The
difficulty occurred between a man named Bill
Williams, alias Bill Davis, alias Whisky Bill
alias Orillian Brown, and one Alex. White, q
steam boatman, in which the latter was cut
slightly in the right arm and received dan
gerous if not fatal wound in the right breast
Orillian Brown, as he calls himself, was
arrested as we'll as his wife, Fanny Harris,
and her son, Felix Jones, charged with being
accessory to the cutting. The three were ar
rested and conducted to the Central Station.
The boy was also charged with assaulting the
wounded man with a brick.
The wounded man was taken to the Charity
Hospital, where his wounds were attended TO,
and pronounced possibly fatal. A reporter
visited the prisoner Brown at the Central
Station, and obtained the folio ing statement:
1 am about thirty-five years old and live on
the corner Of Franklin and Lafayette. I was
in the bar-room Of Mrs. Scott with Alex.
White, Charlie Bayly and Ben Perry ;the last
mentioned was q friend of mine. White
threatened to strike him, when l said don't
you hit that man. He said he would hit me
it came out Of the bar-room. We all then
went out on the sidewalk, but White did not
strike me, when his friend Bayly said: Are
you coward, White, why don't you hit him !?
Then Bayly struck me and White Grew his
knife l don't know what kind of knife it
was. then drew my knife and the men ran.
When at the corner Of Girod White turned
andsthrew rock at me and still kept on. l
caught up with him and cut him; he still ran
on but did not follow him. The knife
used was large double blade pocket knife.
When the difficulty occurred my wife, Fanny
Harris, got in between us and tried to prevent
the men striking me again.
The prisoner showed slight cut on the
right hand, near the fexor muscles, which he
states was inflicted by White.
Next, the wife Fanny Harris was inter-
| viewed, who corroborated the statement OF
her husband, with the following exception:
that she was sitting on the steps of her room
opposite the place where the difficulty oc-
CURED, and that Charlie Bayly had her hus-
band down in the gutter when she ran over
and prevented White from striking him also.
Some one said the police were coming, when
Bayly got up and ran, her husband after him,
but White stopped her hu sband to strike him,
when White was thrown over into the gutter,
and then got up and rap, but her husband
die not follow him.
In this statement she evidently was attempt
ing to screen her better half. for, upon being
questioned by the reporter as to White turn
ing and throwing the brick, she corroborated
son, Felix Jones, was arrested for striking
White with brick, but that he had nothing
to do with the affair; and that the man Ben
Perry, the subject of the quarrel, took no
hand in it.
The reporter then visited the wounded man,
Alex. White at the Charity Hospital The
man says that there were nc blows struck at
ell before the cutting. With the exception of
| this he corroborates the statement of Brown.
But very little could be ascertained from him
as he seemed to be in semi stupor and una
able to speak, and was suffering very much.
The wound in the arm is merely scratch,
but the cut in the breast is quite CHASTITY
cash, and pronounced by Dr. Lewis as being
dangerous, the wound being above the dia.
phrasm, entering the pleuro cavity and posi-.
bly, penetrating the right lung.
At late hour last night the man was con-
sidered in very critical condition. He is q
large, muscular negro, about six feet two 0,
three inches in height, and by occupation q
steamboatmar. The place of his residence
could not be ascertained, as he fell asleey
while the reporter was interviewing him.