The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-02-13
CORY MIDNIGHT CUTTING ARRAY.
James CRITTERS Head and Face Freely
SIashed.
All About a Woman-George II. Loh-
meyer Arrested for Doing
the Carving.

A bloody cutting ARRAY occurred about
midnight last night at 723 L street, James
Grinter being the receiver-general of the
carving. and George II. Lohmeyer is I'M
der arrest as the wielder of the knife.
Grinter was a Notwithstanding sight
when taken to the Receiving Hospital,
where he was accompanied by his wife,
or woman purporting to hold that re-
lation.
Grinter's wounds were all about the face
and head, and are supposed to have been
made with pocket-knife. His right
cheek is cut open from the ear to the cor
ner of the mouth: there is another cut
over the right ear: his left ear is cut
through, and there is another big cash
extending down the left side of his face.
Blood was pouring from these wounds
when he was taken into the hospital, and
| he presented CORY and CHASTITY appear
ance.
Lohmeyer, who is said to have done the
cutting, has scalp wound on the top Of his
| head and another on his forehead, said to
have been made with a billet of wood
welded by Grinter.
OF course there was woman in the
case, and that woman was Mrs. Grinter.
None Of the parties could be induced to
talk. GrInter was in no condition to do
SO, and the woman and Lohmeyer would
| not. The latter would only say that he
had been 'decoyed," but further than
that he would not talk Of the matter, say
ing he had been advised not to do so.
From other sources, however, it was
learned that Lohmeyer was an intruder
on CRITTERS domestic domain: that the
latter had surprised him there, and a
battle followed.
Grinter, it is said. picked up piece of
stovewOod and began beating Lohmeyer,
and that the latter drew his pocket-knife
and set about reducing Grinter's head
and face to the consistency of what the
butchers designate as Hamburg steak, )"
in which undertaking he vas quite sue
cessful.
The Grinters have been here, it is said,
but couple OF weeks, having come from
the land OF orange groves and cactus in
the sunny south.
Grinter's wounds, while painful and
such as to make him rival of Scar
faced Charley" the once famous Modoc
warrior, are not regarded as dangerous.
ANOTHER VERSION.
After the above was written officers
! Taylor and Fisher, who were the first on
the scene, related what they knew of the
affair. They said Lohmeyer told them he
I
woman accosted MIN. After a short con-
versation she invited him to accompany
her to her room, on the second floor of
the house at 723 l. street.
AS they went upstairs she eXtinguished
a light that burned in the hallway, and
afterward the one in the room. He was
there about an hour, during which time
she went out into the hallway several
times.
In the darkness an invisible hand sud-
denly clRsped a sponge or cloth over his
face, saturated, Jas he:believes, with chIoro-
form. He grabbed the mysterious arm,
and then a struggle ensued, during
which he was hit with a club. Finally he
got out his knife, and cut and sIashed at
his assailant until he supposed he had
killed him.
In the meantime the woman had fled
/ the place, and Officer Fisher found her
some distance away on the street.
The woman told the officers her name
was White. She said she met Lohneyer
few months since in San Francisco and
was well acquainted with him. Lob
meyer, however, declares he has not been
in San francisco for eight months. and
that he never saw the woman before last
night.
The officers say the room where the af-
fray occurred looked like small
slaughter-house, the furniture and
carpets being spattered and stained with
blood.