Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-16
ASERIOUS AFFRaY.
william Weaver, a Stranger in the
City,
Receives Frightful Wounds in Midnight
Broi---Particulars of the
Trouble.

LAST night, about II o'clock, row oc'
.urrsd in the East Eud in which William
Weaver, of Braddocks, Pa, nearly lost his
ifs probably at the hands Of Dick Baxter
From what could be learned Of the affair 1t
Appears that on coming home Baxter found
Weaver knocking at the front door
Of his (Bsxter's) residence, No. 10
Nineteenth street, and according to Bsx-
tsrs story, he asked Weaver what he was
doing there. Weaver answered: None OF
vour d-n business" At this moment
Mrs. Baxter appeared. Baxter told Weaver
10 get away, when the latter answered IN q
rough manner. Then some words
passed between the two and Baxter says
Weaver picked up brick and hit him
twice, vhereupon he pitched in and struck
him as hard as he could with his list. Ii
also appears that Mrs. Baxter seized o
poker and Joined in the melee, but IN at
tsmptipg to strike Weaver she hit her hus'
band instead.
Mr.. Will Warden, who lives near, was
awakened by the racket and came out
[Is saws he found Weaver, who was very
drunk, standing up against the coal housS
in a very battered up condition, ou
before he could get to him, Baxter
who had gone into the houst
came out again with a brick In his hand
and running up to Weaver, began pound
ing him with it about the face. Weaver
fell to the ground and Baxter on him
Warden then says be pulled Baxter
off when he threatened to do him
up in the same manner. At this junctur'
the police arrived on the scene and Weave
was carried into house near By. Accord
inc 10 Mrs. Baxter's story Weaver haC
been bo,hering her for an hour or more. baN
ter was arrested oy Officer Dufy and tsket
TO the lookup and placed in cell No. l. d.
saws he is employed NJ Bodleys wsgo'
works, and did not seem to regret the sc
we're beating he had given Weaver, re
marking that he needed it badly. He ha
several small wouudsin the face, the wors
of waich is on the right side of his nose.
Weaver was placed on q door and car
ried to the City Building By Officers Jun
kins, West, Duffy, and two or three citizens
Arriving at the lookup, just at one o clock
the wounded man was lsid upon the foo
Of the outer office, where DR.. Tsylc
made an examination of his wounds. Wea
yers face, covered with blood, and swollel
in horrible manner, had lost nearly 81
human semblance. On the back OF Ri
head was q bad cut, one and half iuche
in length and extending to the skull, eviden'
" made with the sharp edge OF q brick o
the edge of fiat iron. On his forehead
lust above the left eye. was another wounc
the worst, indeed, that be received. |
was one and one-hslt inches in length, an
exposed the frontal bone, which has trsg
ment, apparently halt an inch long an
one Quarter Of an inch wide, clipped from 1!
His nose was csved in sOd broken by
powerful blow with the cobble stone Q
brick which Baxter held IN his hand, an
both eyes were closed aud terribly swollen
the lid of each one being split Their
were other minor a5rssions Of the ski
about the head, and the knuckles OF b;
right hand we're badly split.
Dr. Taylor sewed up the wounds, sfts
carefully washing and probing them, an
the wounded man was then placed in 6
comfortable a position as possible. DARN
the surgeons operations he spoke at inte'
walls, saving he was sick and that h
wasn't going to die" Weaver certsinl
vas as bad beaten man as ever require
surgical sd in this city, and it will b
strange if his injuries do not turn out t
be very serious.