Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-05
IlFE IN .ALLEYC
A Serious Cutting Scraps at Red Aary's
House.
4 BRIDGEpORTER THE VICTIM
Geo. Engls Yields the Knifs---A Row Out at
Fulton.
4 LAWYER In SERIOUS TROUBLE.

That delectable neiehborhood, alley U,
north of Tenth street, was the scene Of
q rather serious cutting scrape, early last
evening.
The affair, according to the statements
of the victim of the carving, and others In
the house at the time, affords a fine illus
tration of the methods pursued by SOM
of the gangs, composed Of tough males
and females alike, with which certain
quarters of the city are infested.
To begin at the beginning, on Friday
Ransom Baxter, of Bridgeport, sold q lit
tie piece Of ground over there for seventy
dollars, and put the money in the bank.
Yesterday he drew ont the cash, and came
over to the city. Not arriving ut his home
at supper time, his son James and q young
friend came over to town to look the old
gentleman up, and see that he did not get
away with an undue amount of money.
Old man Baxter had in the meantime
fallen into the hands of some of the tough
element in the Second ward, and had been
steered into q house kept by Mary Clark,
Familiarity known as RED Mary" IN alley
G, and there he was found by his son
James. When the two young men called
at the house, q little after 8 o'clock, there
were present in the place cred Mary"
George and Henry Eugle, EN-. McMan-
away, Lizzie Drum, and probably some
others. James Baxter e~ndeavored to get
his father out of the house, q thing which
the Engle boys, and George in particular,
seem 10 have resisted with considerable
spirit, and soon a free for all fight was in
progress, which took on a serious phase
when George Eugle drew a knife and made
a rush at James Baxter. James en-
deavored to get out of the way, but
the door had been locked on him, and he
was practically at the mercy of his as
sailant. Eugle handled his knife
in a very ugly way, making vicious slashes
at Baxter, and inf citing three bad cuts in
his left arm, which he used TO protect his
body from the knife. Baxter finally sue
ceeded in getting the door oren and made
his escape into the house of Mrs. Miller,
near by, and thence he and his father got
out Of the peighborhood and made their
way to the Island, where they were taken
into q buggy by a friend and driven to
DENTS drug store, in Bridgeport, where
DR.. Wagner was called and the cuts in
James arm were sewed up. The elder
Baxter stated at the drug store that the
people in Alley G got about twenty dol
lars from him, but the remainder of his
money was all right. 1t is pretty safe to
say, however, that had he not been res
cued from the house all his cash would
have been taken from him before morning.
The police were notified of the cutting
soon after it occurred, and Officers Watson
and Dunlap went mp and made a thor
ough search for the Engles, but could
not find them. They found considerable
blood on the floor of "Red Mary's' house,
where the fight occurred, and from this
place as a starting point set out to trace
the whereabouts of the Engles. George
Eugle was found about half-past nine
o'clock and locked up at the City Hall,
and his brother will likely be arrested to-
day, if he has not been taken in by the
time this meets the eye of the reader.