The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-22
HER FAT SAVED HER
Pauline Foster, a ColOred Woman,
VlciOusly Stabbed by Rivals.
CUTS ALL OVER HER BODY
Emma Teal and Another Black
Skinned Offcast Arrested for
AssauIt-They Didn't Quite
XIII the Woman.

Emma Teal and a woman known as
Clyde, two of the most notorious color
ed fairies in the city, went after fau-
line Foster, whose mammoth proper
tions have made her familiar charac-
ter in East Galena street, with
knife and a razor yesterday morning.
and carved her as they would pos
sum after a four days fast. They
carved her abdomen, chest, race ana
arms until she looked as though she
had been run through a steam sausage
machine. and when ii was all over Pau
line thanked her lucky stars that she
had never taken any anti-fat. Pauline
weighs easily $50 pounds, and II was
the fat that saved her life. The knife
which was so energetically wlelded py
her principal assailant, the Teal wo-
man, penetrated the layers or fat sew
eral times, but the blade was not long
enough to penetrate any deeper, ana
the massive woman OF color Will escape
with her life, although she Will carry
with her the largest and choicest col
lection of scars that have ever peeh
seen on a human being.
The trouble is alleged to have started
over Joe Humphrey, a bartender at the
Capitol saloon in East Galena street.
Humphrey and Lille Nelson, friend
of mine. who is in Anaconda, used 10
be lovers" explained Pauline last even
ing. After Lille went to Anaconda
this Teal woman steps in and makes
trouble between her and Humphrey
came up from Anaconda on Friday ana
Teal gets sore at me because she claim
| ed TO have heard that | would do so
and so IL had been Lille. but l never
made any such talk. Then she ana
| Clyde go after me-"
At a little after o'clock yesterday
morning Pauline was standing in front
of a fruit store adjoining the Capitol
/ saloon talking to man and woman
0 If q
saloon and ran up TO her with an open
knife and commenced cutting and
/ slashing. She cut three long, deep
/ gashes in her abdomen with as many
/ strokes, and then undertook to cut her
/ throat Pauline protected her throat
with her left arm, however. and the
best she could do was to chop her arm
up. BY that time Pauline had seized
! Emma's hands and then. she claims
/ that Clyde turned a razor loose on hel
I face, in support of which Statement
she has three horrible gashes. Pauline
soon dropped to the floor from weak
| ness from the loss of blood, and her as
sailants ran off, supposing that they
had finished her. DIR. Bryant arrived
in a few minutes and found the wo'
man lying in deep pools or blood
I which was still running away from hei
| in streams. He checked the copiou'
! flow of gore and then examined ant
! dressed the wounds. He found that al
of the gashes in the abdomen had pen
etrated the muscular tissue, and in one
| place If the knife had gone an eightf
| of an inch deeper It would have pene
| trated the intestines and In all proba
bility have resulted fatally.
! In addition to the horrible gashes OF
the woman's abdomen, chest and face
there were Is distinct cuts on her LEI
arm with which she had warded OF
the blows that were intended Tor ne
throat. The wounds were all deep anC
were sewed up with a great deal o.
difficulty. Pauline was resting comfor
tably last night and her recovery u
looked for Both the Teal and Clyd'
women were arrested by Captain
Waters a few minutes after the cut
ting and held on charges OF assault II
the first degree. The Teal woman wa
heard to remark Monday evening ina
she would Kill some one before morn
ing