The record-union., 1896-02-25
BOLD ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
John DOherty'S Throat Cut by an Un-
known Man Last Evening.
Sitting in the Freight Sheds When It
Was Done-Brock McGraw
Suspected.

One of the most fiendish and unpro-
voked attempts at murder that ever
took place in this city was committed
on Front street last night. The police
are certain they know who the would be
assassin is, but up to the hour of going
to press he had evaded arrest.
About s o'clock a young and quite
well-d dressed man walked into the police
station tightly grasping a white hand
kerchief that was about his neck and
which was saturated with blood. The
crimson fluid was running down his
shirt front at the time in pretty lively
stream, and altogether he presented a
gerry and horrible sight. He said he
wanted surgeon right away, as an un-
known man had just cut his throat.
He was taken into the Receiving Hos
pital and City Physician H L. Nichols
notified by telephone. The wounded
man said his name was John Doherty,
and that he had been here but a few
days. He and another man were sitting
on the edge of the platform of the
freight shed at Front and K streets
when young man came across the
street from the Grand Hotel lodging
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or calling him names.
Doherty told him he must be mis-
taken, as they had not seen him before
and certainly had no occasion to say
anything about him.
The man, who was evidently laboring
under excitement, had a long bladed
knife concealed in his hand, and before
Doherty had reason to suppose an as
sault was intended the fellow made
Well-aimed sweep with the weapon, cut
ting terrible cash in Dohertys throat
nearly five inches long
Doherty did not realize for an instant
that he had been cut, but jumped to his
feet and hit his assailant with his fist.
Then he discovered that blood was
squirting in a. sheet from his throat, and
twisting his handkerchief about his
neck he made for the police station, two
blocks away, accompanied by his COM
panion and a boy who had witnessed
the cutting.
DR.. Nichols found that the point of
the knife's entrance was within a small
fraction of an inch of the jugular vein,
and that the unfortunate young man
had very close call for his life The
gaping wound, through which all the
organs of the throat were exposed, was
sewed up and dressed, and the wounded
man put to bed. He will probably re-
cover.
The man who was with him at the
time the assault was made said his
name was Abe Green, that he, too, was a
stranger here and had met Doherty
during the day They were sitting
ters in general when the knife fiend
came up and assaulted Doherty.
Green and the boy referred to de-
scribed the man who did the cutting,
and said he ran back to the other side
of the street, where he rejoined a
woman whom he had left on the side
walk, and together they ran upstairs
into the Grand Hotel
officers Fisher and Maley hastened
to the place and soon became convinced
that the man they wanted was Brock
McGraw, the consort of one Mary Far
ley, a woman with a bad reputation.
Both are opium fiends. They found the
woman in the room occupied by the
Pair, but McGraw had already gone
into hiding. He has plenty of friends
among the degraded class with whom
he associates, and may succeed for
some time in eluding capture.
Doherty's companion says that some
boys in the street were skylarking and
talking pretty loud, and that possibly
the knife -wielder imagined he was the
subject Of their remarks and that Do
herty and himself (Green) had been
guying him. He could conceive of no
other motive for the deadly assault
The lodging house where McGraw and
the Farley woman hold out is one of the
vilest dens in the city. It is a resort for
opium f1ends and men and women of
the lowest class.
At late hour Officers Talbot and
Wilson found McGraw in an opium
joint on Fourth street, between I and J,
and locked him up at the station house.