The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-06
TWO TRAMPS FIGHT
One Gets His Throat Cut
From Ear to Ear,
BOTH TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Pat" Gets Funny in the Face
of Death.
BOTH TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Two third degree" tramps, whose only
names are Jim and Pat, so far as the
officers can learn, engaged in a terrible
encounter in the Santa Fe yards about
dark last evening, and came very near
killing each other. It was one Of the most
desperate, brutal and stubborn fights ever
heard of by the officers in this city, and
Yet both men were reported alive at the
hour Of going to press this morning. They
are lying in the Wichita hospital Jim
with his throat cut from ear to ear, and
Pat with a head that is almost beaten
into pulp.
After the fight jim made his way to Dr.
Hoskins' Office. He held his lacerated
throat with his hands, and presented an
awful spectacle IS he almost drag ged him
self through the streets. In the meantime
Mr.. Paige, who is foreman OF the switch
ing IN the Santa Fe yards, and who saw
the fight. notified Policeman Fox, who or
dered the patrol wagon and went after the
other tramp. He was found near the
Kellogg street crossing, almost unconscious
Loading him into the wagon they came
back and got jim and took them both 10
the hospital At this time neither was
wholly unconscious, but the officers could
get neither Of them to tell Of the trouble
nor to give each other away, which action
on their part was true to the tramp in
stinCt. Pat, the one with his head beat
up. was drinking considerably, but Jim
was apparently sober. Both tramps knew
Officers Sutton and Fox.
On the way to the hospital, Pat raised
his pUnctured head and looked over to jim
with his cut throat, and said: "Oh. be
Jazus won't git mOre'n three years for
that job" Pats head had been beat in
a terrible manner with a coupling pin;
but he was too drunk to realize it,
and again looking up TO Mr.. Fox he said:
och, Mr.. Fox I've bin on the road for
fifteen years, but this IS the worst beatin'
I liver got"
As they reached the hospital Jim was
found to be getting very weak from loss
of b,ood and he fell unconscious as he
was being taken up in the elevator. Jim
and Pat were put in the same ward, and
late IN the night a policeman had TO be
called to quiet their disturbance. as both
men had been treated by the physicians.
They were trying to renew the quarrel and
down in the yards Had they got together
again, they would probably have worried
each other to death, with their bulldog
tenacity.
Foreman Paige and Everett Newell, who
were on the switch engine, were the only
ones who saw the fight, with the exception
Of one or two other tramps who could not
be found. These gentlemen say that the
tramps fought for a long time. when
finally Pat. who is a large Irishman,
whipped out a razor and made one sweep
ing stroke at Jim The blade went into
The neck behind the right ear, ran under
the ear and just missed the jugular vein
by turning up on the Jaw bone. Then it
was drawn down under the chin into the
neck again and up under the left ear,
barely missing the jugular vein on the left
side. Mr.. Paige said that Jim continued
the fight after he was cut and admins
tered a terrible beating TO Pat with the
CCuping-pin.