Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-24
CUTTING sCRAPE.
John Kurz Makes an Attempt to Disem
bowel Frank Zehner

/ power FRANK Zehner.
About 11:30 last night as Captain Karcher
| was sitting in front of the Golden Eagle
| Hotel he heard man cry Police in
| front of the beer saloon a few doors west
of the Capital Hotel. He ran across the
street and in dong so passed an individual
| dressed in blue shirt, overalls and straw
hat. When the Captain reached the indi-
vidual who called for help special officer
Martin was already there. having come up
| from Sixth street in answer to the call.
When the Captain arrived, Martin said !:
He's got stick IN him." The Captain
called hack and sent Martin to overtake
| the individual, who had Just walked off,
and when the wounded man said was the
individual who had knitted him. The
wounded man was Immediately taken to
the receiving hospital, where DR.. Parkinson
attended TO his wound, which is very seri-
Gus. The stab is an inch and a half in
| length in the lower part of the abdomen
| Just over the bladder. As the man is quite
| tieshy it is not known whether the blade
entered the cavity or not. The wounded
man is about % years of age, an employee
in one OF the lumber yards, and gives his
name as Frank Zehner
Officer Martin visited the saloons and
hotels in the upper portion of the town,
and finally ascertained at the Old William
Tell Hotel corner of Ninth and streets,
that the individual he was looking after
had been kicked out of the hotel during
| the day, and had secured rooms and board
at the Garibaldi House on L, between Front
| and Second. The Captain and officer Mar
tin proceeded to the latter place, and dis
covered their man sitting in front of the
house on a bench with two other men.
When the hack drove up Kurz, divining
their object, started to run and entered the
alley. he was soon overtaken and, although
he resisted, he was handcuffed, put in the
hack and taken to the city prison.
When he arrived there at 1925 this morn
ing he was Immediately taken into the
Receiving Hospital, where he was iden-
titled by Zehner as the man who stabbed
him. After stabbing Zehner, Kurz had
gone up X to Seventh, down Seventh to l.,
and down L to the Garbaldi, where
he had changed his clothes. Instead of a
straw hat he wore a black one. Whtn
first seen at the Garibaldi he had the straw
hat IN his hand but threw it away as he
tried to escape through the alley. Kurz is
large man, of fine physique and is hod-
carrier on the new building going ND next
to the Golden Eagle. When he was
searched at the prison the knife which had
done the bloody work was found in his
pantaloons pocket. He admitted doing the
cutting and said that was the knife he
! used. 1t is a new black-handled pocket
knife with dirk blade about four and a
half or five inches in length. He appar-
emily was considerably under the influence
of beer, both of his eyes were discolored,
his face was badly bruised, a deep cash was
in the center of his forehead, and he looked
like a defeated candidate for DriZe-ring
honors at the close of the fight.
He admitted the cutting, and said Zehner
had hit him with rock.
Zehner was in great pain and not very
communicative. He said they had some
trouble in the early part of the evening,
and he had hit Kurz in the head with a
cobble. About II o'clock Kurz came into
Oberson Muller's saloon, found him
there, renewed hostilities and stabbed him.