Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-18
SEVERAL CUTTING AFFAIRS
Three Men Find Their Way to the Hos
pital.
Knives Were Used One Man Gets
Six Months for IN
Assault.

the scene of a cutting ARRAY, in which the
victim George Clark, received severe cuts in
face and breast. 1t was about $50
o'clock Saturday night when the man
in an apparently dying condition was
led into Lieut.. Vernon's police station
by a number of friends. While the colored
man stood at the station clerks desk
and made feeble effort to tell the story of
the assault, blood spurted from the serious
wounds he had received, and the patrol wa
gon was soon on its way to the Emergency
Hospital with the patient Daniel Stoddard,
also colored, is locked up on suspicion of be-
ing the man who inflicted the knife cuts.
The several persons who had assisted
Clark to the station, among them his brother
Horace, gave the officers the details of the
affair, as they understood them, and soon
afterward Stoddard was arrested and placed
behind the bars. He lives at 237 Virginia
avenue, near the mouth of Limerick alley,
and 1t was near his house that the affair
took place. The cause of the trouble,
stated by those who had witnessed what
happened, as well by Stoddard himself,
was ClarkS alleged insulting conduct to-
ward Stoddard's wife. 1t appears that when
Mrs. Stoddard came out Of her house, with
an elderly woman, whom she was going to
escort home she had some words with
Clark, but just how this happened the wit
resses do not agree. On one side 1t is claim
ed that Mrs. Stoddard stepped on Clark's
ed in the mans assaulting her. On the other
hand. Mrs. Stoddard says that Clark used
bad language and assaulted her for no rea-
son whatever.
returned to the house and quickly informed
her husband that Clark had insulted her.
To this complaint the husband responded
and then there was fight. When Stoddard
came out. 1t Is charged. he had a large
knife in his hand, and this is the weapon
which, 1t is charged, he used. Stoddard,
who is respectable and Woodworking
man. denies that he used the knife, is
claimed by some of the witnesses. Dr.
Childs attended the injured man before he
reached the police station, and advised his
friends to send him to the hospital. This
morning he was reported as doing very well.
Badly Cut.
Melville L. Williams, a young colored
man, whose father is steward on the coast
survey steamer Blake, figured in a fight
Saturday night, and received severe cuts
across his stomach and arm. 1t was about
8 O'Clock that night when Williams stag
gered into the Emergency Hospital, weak
from loss of blood, and not fully recovered
from the effects of what he had been drink
ing, and asked to be cared for. He save
his name as Frank Jones in an effort to
conceal his identity, but there We're tell
tale initials on his undergarments. His
statement was that he had received the
terrible SaSneS Wnlle on the street a Penn
sylvanta avenue and 10th street, but no one
has been found who witnessed any trouble
there. and the police are inclined to the be-
lief that the patient received the wounds
while engaged in an alteration in house.
During the night Williams condition be-
came serious, and when 1t was feared he
would die Policemen Father and Kilmar-
tin were sent for, and then 1t was that the
supposed dying man told of his identity.
According to the patients statement, he
stepped on a mans foot, and the man
threatened to use a knife on him. He lis
tened to the threats and profanity, told the
man to cut him. and the man obeyed Will
liams said that the man who cut him Wore
a gray Fedora hat, and the officers are now
looking for him. although from the injured
mans statements there Is no certainty
about the mans color.
The young man has been living with his
aunt, on 2Sth street Yesterday his aunt
called at the hospital, and remained with
her nephew for some time.
Still Another.
William Rodgers and George Johnson,
young colored men, called at the house of
Celia Vickers in Dixon's court southwest,
and while there they got into a dispute about
a woman whom both men pretend to love.
When the trouble occurred 1t was about
midnight, and George Johnson, who is a
much smaller man than Rodgers, accepted
the latters invitation to fight it out, and
later Rodgers discovered that he had been
stabbed in the back. Then he made his
way to the police station and related his
complaint to Policeman Espey, who want
ed him taken to the Emergency Hospital,
but the man refused to go there. He also
received a cut across the face.
George Johnson, the mans assailant, had
fed, and the police went in search of him,
but without success.
One Sentence.
Yesterday morning about l o'clock a crowd
Of people gathered at the corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and 9th street because of
fight at one of the oyster carts, where BIZ
valves are served to passerS-by at extremely
low prices. Some of the parties had been
in liquid refreshments, and those
who participated in the row were William
JONES' alias Richmond colored, and a white
man named Cahill. 1t was difficult for the
to tell just how the fight started.
but the colored man. who seemed anxious
for a fight, picked up cup and hurled it
at him. The missile struck Cahill square
In the eye and inflicted an ugly cut. An
Emergency Hospital physician dressed the
wound and the colored man, who was ar
rested by Policeman Herndon, was locked
up.
Judge Miller heard the witnesses tell of the
trouble, and saw the disfigured eye of the
man, Cahill.
There was no reason for the throwing of
the cup stated by the witnesses, all of
who told substantially the same story.
Judge Miller told Jones that the time would
come when cups and saucers, coal oil lamps
and stoves would have to be kept out of
their way.
person." the judge told him. 1.-The first thing
you think of is some dangerous instru-
ment.'
A sentence of six months was imposed.