The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-08
A SOLDIER CUT IN THE FORT.
PATRICK O'NEILL OF THE GREENS
STABBED BY HARRY SWEAT.

The Stabbing Took Place on Presl-
dent Street, Between Arnold and
Randolph Not Thought That
O'NeiII VIII Die - Trouble Was
over O'NeiIIs Wife, who Was Also
| Arrested-She and Sweat Lodged
I'm the Barracks A Dull and
Broken Case knife Used In the
! CuttinG-O'Nein Was In Uniform.
Patrick O'Neill, a member of the Irish
Jasper Greens, Of the First Georgia Regi-
ment, was seriously stabbed last night at
about 10 o'clock by Harry Sweat He was
taken to the Savannah Hospital. At a
late hour 1t was reported from the hos
pital that it was not thought likely that
The man would die.
Sweat was arrested by Detective CARLY
and lodged In the barracks on a charge
of assault with intent to murder O'NeiTs
wife was also arrested by the detective
and locked up on a charge of being drunk
! and disorderly. Detective Clarity says she
was drunk and cursed and abused him
for arresung Sweat.
The police say the trouble was over
| O'Neilrs wife. They were all together In
O'Neills house. at the corner of Ogle-
thorpe avenue and Randolph street. The
row started there, and Sweat and O'Neill
| left in one direction and the woman by
another. When the two men got around
on President street, between Arnold and
Randolph, the cutting took place. Details
could not be learned as to what passed
between the men there. 1t is not known
who provoked the trouble that may re-
! suit seriously for ONeln.
After he was stabbed, O'Neii walked to
| Reds drug store at Oglethorpe avenue
and East Broad street From there the
ambulance was telephoned for When it
| arrived, O'Nein was put in and taken to
the barracks.
Detective Clarity was on duty when the
! ambulance arrived. O'Neill said that Har-
| ry Sweat had cut him. He asked that no
delay be made in sending him to the hos
| pital He was bleeding copiOusly from a
wound, apparently in the stomach. The
blood was running to the ground through
| the bottom of the ambulance
| The detective and Policeman Wood start
| ed for the scene of the difficulty They
! found Sweat had gone to the house of a
woman named Emma Williams. on Ar
! The detective went in and found Sweat
| and O'Neilrs wife in a room together.
| There was something Of a row going on in
| the house, the woman who lived there
| seeming to want to get the couple out. She
/ had evidently heard about the trouble and
did not want to get mixed up in 1t.
Sweat submitted readily to arrest, but
! the O'Neiil woman began abusing the Of
! ficer. He saw that she was drunk and ar
| rested her also. The detective said Sweat
was also drunk.
When he was searched at the barracks
a case knife, with the end broken off, VIZ S
| the only weapon found on Sweat This
was not very sharp, and the evidence of
! blood on 1t was all that would indicate
that 1t had been used, in the cutting
This is not the first trouble that has
| occurred between the two men. Sweat
| cut O'Neill about five or six months ago.
1t was on account of this affair that Po-
| liceman Spelght was discharged from the
force. O'Neill was cut in the face and
he called on the policeman to arrest
| Sweat. The latter did not care to be ar
| rested and showed resistance. The po-
lioeman took 1t no further, and the lnves-
tigation by the commissioners resulted in
his discharge.
O'Neill had another affair about two
| years ago, in which he was cut by a ne
| gro. He has a number of gashes, though
! it is said he is rather a peaceable man,
quiet and orderly. Sweat Is not so de-
scribed.
O'Neill got home a few days ago with
the Greens. He was one of the recruits
secured by Capt. Gleason on his trip 10
| Savannah for additional men. O'Nein and
his wife have two children He is a man
of about 80 and Sweat is about %.
O'NeiH was In his uniform when cut.