Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-17
DANGEROUSLY CUT.
A SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY EARLY THIS
MORNING,
At the Corner Of Chapline and Twenty-Ninth Streets
Charles WhitssideS the Victim-Frank Fon-
ner, His Assailant Arrested.

Frank Fonner cut Charles Whitesides in
a dangerous manner, in general row, at
an early hour this morning.
The trouble occurred at the corner Of
Chapline and Twenty-ninth streets.
Fonner made his escape, but was run
down by the police, Officer Fitzgerald cap
curing him on Csldwells run, about two
o'clock. He was at once taken to the City
Hall in the patrol wagon and locked up.
Whitesides was stabbed in the breast and
slashed across the face, and at two o'clock
the police reported that he seemed TO be Sc
riously injured.
The trouble occurred just outside the
door of a boarding house kept by Mrs. Ellen
Smith, at the corner Of Twenty-ninth and
Chapline streets, and had its origin in
somewhat complicated circumstances, in
which jealousy seems TO figure 10 consid-
cradle extent
Saturday evening William Burwinkle,
of the Island, went down 10 the Eighth
ward, to call on Miss Jackson, daughter
of Mrs. Charles JAG kson, whose child was
assaulted by Jack Probasco, and who lives
at Twenty-ninth and Wood streets.
Mrs Jackson keeps boarders, and
among them is FonRer, who
did the cutting During the evening Miss
Jackson, Burwinkle and Fonner started up
street, and went TO Devlin's saloon, be-
tween Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
streets, where refreshments were ordered.
Then Burwinkle sent Fonner up town
for his laundry, giving Rim quarter
to pay for it. Fonner CAM up to Four
teenth street, got the laundry, and went
back to the saloon, and then the three went
TO Mr.. Smiths, at Twenty ninth and Chap
line streets. Then there was quar-
rel between the two men, and Fon-
laundry, threw it down on the sidewalk.
Whitesides Is a boarder at Mrs. Smiths,
and was present. AS Fonner threw the
laundry down, Whitesides said;
Don't go back on my friend; carry the
laundry"
This remark, directed TO Fonner, seems
to have set that young man wild. He said
he wouldn't carry the bundle, and taking
black handled knife, with blade about
two and half inches long, from his pocket,
he opened it, and attacked Whitesides.
The first slash with the knife opened
cash four inches long on the left
side of Whiteside's face. Then he caught
an ugly cut on the right side, and this was
followed up with two wicked slashes on the
left breast, each ten inches In length and
meeting at one end, making horrible and
dangerous "Vr shaped wound, with the
apex over the heart.
Not content with this bloody work,
Fonner attacked all the others within
reach. He hit Burwinkle on the nose
with his fist and struck at him
with the knife, but fortunately missed him.
He also made lunge at Mrs Smith with
his knife, but she succeed In getting out Of
his way
Fonner then threw the knife away, and
ran TO Mrs. Jacksonis house, where he Sc
creted himself. He was promptly followed
by Oficers Fitzgerald and O'Brien,
but Mrs. Jackson denied that
Fonner was in the house. The
officers then started out on search, and
after going all over that portion of the city,
went back to Mrs. JacksoR's, where Fon-
ner was found and put under arrest He
said he had been at the house all the time.
Drs. Ridgeway and Manley were called
TO Mrs. Smiths 70 attend Whitesides.
They pronounced his wounds 70 be Of
serious nature. The man was conscious AZ
hAlf-past two, but ii was too early 10 pre-
dict the result of his wounds.
When arrested, Fonner denied that he
did the cutting or that he knew anything
about il, but there was blood on the hand
in which he held the knife.
Fonner is about thirty or thirty-three
years of age, and Whitesides is also in that
neighborhood.
Fonner arrived at the City Hall in the
patrol wagon about quarter Of three
O'Clock. He there denied that he had any
thing to do with the affair, and said he had
never left his boarding house. The police
give him bad reputation. He has been
arrested for several ofenses, and is set
down by the officers as mo good"
At half-past three the Doctors had put
forty or fifty stitches in Whitesides'
wounds, and he was resting as easy as
could be expected under the circumstan-
ces