Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-21
COlored Lovers Quarrel and the Girl
Gets Stabbed in the Back
With Large Knife.
HER INJURIES ARE VERY SERIOUS.
A LabOrer Brutally Beaten Without the
Least PrOvOcation and Not EI-
pected to Survive.
SPEAK-ELSY RAIDS SOMEWHAT SCARCE.
Hearings and other Police Business All Over Pitts
burg and Allegheny.

Notwithstanding the fact that police cir
cles were exceptionally quiet yesterday, two
verv serious affairs occurred, both of which
NAV prove fatal. John Moorhead was
brutallv assaulted on Liberty street and lies
AT the point of death. Laura Morrison is in
a similar condition from the effect of knife
wound made by her lover. The latter af-
fair, the result of a trifing quarrel, was
somewhat sensational Both parties are cob
ored.
The girl lives on Greenfield avenue,
Twentv-third ward. For some time past
she has been receiving attentions from
James Henning, alias Fisher. Yesterday
afternoon she paid visit to the Brown
family at No. III Soho street. She had
been there but short time when Henning
appeared The lovers talked together for
an hour or more when finally some remark
made BY Henning aroused the girls ire.
She refused to be consoled and left the
house pouting. Henning was persistent
and followed.
STABBED IN THE BACK.
Outside the house the girl stopped and
the two passed some angry words. Sud-
denly, with an oath, Henning pulled a
large knife from his pocket and plunged it
into the girls back
Leaving the weapon sticking in the wound
Henning took to his heels down Soho street
Miss Morrison screamed loudly for help
and fell to the ground senseless. Mrs
Brown heard her cries and ran out
The girl was carried into the
house. The knife was removed
and after short time she recovered con-
sciousness In half an hour her condition
was improved so rs to allow her being taken
home. Her condition is serious, as the
wound is very near the heart. The police
are on the hunt for the guilty lover, but
late last night had not captured him. He
lives in the Twelfth ward and works at
Jeanette.
Early yesterday morning John Moor
head, a laborer, 81 years old, who lives on
Carpenters alley, Sixteenth ward was as
saulted and terribly beaten. He was walk
ing along Liberty street near Pearl street
TO his home when he was approached by a
man whom he did not know except by sight.
The man knocked him down, kicked him in
the stomach several times, injuring him in
ternallv, and also kicked him in the face.
The assailant then fled, leaving Moorhead
in an unconscious condition. The latter was
picked up shortly after and sent to the
Seventeenth ward police station.
THE CASE CALLED SERIOUS.
1t was at first supposed he was intoxi-
Gated, but soon after his condition became
apparent and he was sent to his home.
Physicians were summoned and pronounced
his case serious Should erysipelas set in
he will probably die.
When Police Captain Brophy called at
the house Moorhead said he had given the
man no provocation for the assault He was
not certain about his assailant's name,
but thought it was Herman Kinzen. He
furnished description and the police began
a search. In the afternoon Kinzen was ar
rested. He answers the description per-
fectly When asked about the assault he
declined to say a word. He will be held to
await the result of MOorhead's injuries.
Espea Carrana, the Syrian who was
stabbed by Gabriel Coria in Basin alley
early yesterday morning, was resting easily
at the Mercy Hospital last night. The ply
sician in charge thinks he will recover.