The age-herald., 1897-09-08
nDOC" AND THE BOOTBLACK
Have a Lively Round in a Barber
 Shop.
WOODSON AND HIS RATCHET
A Vaccinatlng Surgeon on the Lookout For Sore Arms Met With the usuel 0bSta-
 cle and Fight Followed.

Dr. A. M. Woedson, one of the vacei- mating surgeons undsr the board of health, is under bond for assaulting Ernest Cooper, a negro bootblack. Er- nest Cooper is under bond for using abusive language. and "Barkeep" Sat- terfield, of the Dude" saloon, is under bond for assaulting pr. Woodson.
 The melee is divided in three acts. The first took place in the Dude" sa- loon, the second in the Little Dude" barber shop and the third curtain will rise on the finale in police court with Judge Feagin as leading heavy" broken hatchet and a few empty bot ties figured in the affair, and the boot black came out with a very sore head.
 It all occurred about 11:30 o'clock yes terday, and was caused by the vaccina- tion crusade which has been in vogue for some weeks on account of the small pox "scare." pr. Woodson went in the barber shop to find out if the inmates had been successfully vaecinated. Trou- ble ensued, and the story thereof had best be depicted in the words of the participants.
 1 NtHl III tne DdrD6T SHOp, Sdlu UT. Woodson, '.in the discharge of my duty to see if those connected with it had been yacclnated. Isasled the negro boy if he had been vaccinated and to show me his arm. He said he had certificate and went to get it. He was very insult ing and insolent. He applied to me a vile epfthet and hit him. Several men jumped on me. I did the best I could, and finally got a hammer and hit him with 1t. The bartender first struck me, and then one of the barbers. We en- counter much trouble in vaccinating certain class of people, and I was up- held in my action by the board of health"
 '.Yes, and think it is an outrage on Birmingham that a lot of white men would take the part of a nigger," chimed in Vaccinating Surgeon Bakston,. who Was with pr. Woodson. "They said .Eoeison did not act the part of a gen tleman. They are evidently not gen. tlemen themselves" he concluded.
 pr. Woodson admitted walking to a hardware store and getting the instru- ment with which he hit Cooper over the head, but said he did not want any thing said about this. The weapon was a hatchet with the blade broken off and only the poll remaining.
 ,Bohl the barber said: T didn't think he was a doctor. and I don't know his name yet continued the barber in badly broken English. "He looked more like a drummer. He came In and asked him (pointing to a fellow barber) if he had been vaccinated. He showed him his arm, and then he went to the negro. The negro went to his coat tn the back of the shop to get his certificate. The man was abusing him all the time and called him 1nighty bad name, and the boy went into the saloon to get away from him. I knew there was a fight in there but didn't zee it. The boy came back in the shop, and the yaccinating man went down the street. The latter came back with hatchet in his hand and made for the boy, who was at lshe back (polnt- ing to the rear walD. He knocked him down five or six times. I got nearly to them and he hit at me with the ha,chet. but tucked. I dfdnqi hear the boy say anything to cause the row, and none of us but the vaccinating man."
 The other barber, Kline said: "He came dn the shop and asked me if I was vac- l showed him my arm and then he went for the nigger." Tn regard ko the fight Kline reiterated the statement of Bohl
 II was at the desk when the negro ran into the saloon," said Barkeeper Doe Satuerfield. '"The fiist I saw of hhem they were each on the floor and had knocked over lot of empty beer glasses. I told them they couldn't have n row in here. | merely separated them and did not strike Woodson. The next thing I knew Woodson was on the boy with a hatchei."
 Earnest Cooper is negro boy proba- bly 15 years of age. He said Dr. Wood son asked him if he was vaccinated. He replisd in the affirmative and went to get his certificate from his coat pocket He then asked Woodson if he was sat- isfied and alleges the latter called him a bad name. He went in the saloon Woodson followed and the row ensued. The boy said he knew nothing after Woodson struck hmi.
 The parties att the hardware store said Woadson came in there very much excited and got the broken hattchet. He said nsgro had called him d vile name