The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-27
CARVED By KEEN RAZ()RS
TRADITIONAL WEAPON OF
THEIR RACE
ONE OF THEM BADLY HACKED
ARRAY Took Place In Alley on Wa
cOuta observation-disclosures Were
Donald Gray and Marcus
Hutchinson.

A duel, that for ferocity and nerve, L.
| almost without a parallel in local an
nails OF crime, was fought last night be-
tween two colored. men In an alley in
the rear of 376 Wacouta street They
used razors, and they used them to kill.
! One is now at the point of death at the
| city hospital and the other is at the
central police station badly cut.
Donald Gray, barber, and Marcus
Hutchinson, a porter in a saloon, were
the duelists. 1t seems that they were
playing a friendly game Of cards and
some dispute arose. One dared the other
to fight duel to the death, and i'll an
instant the challenge was accepted. Ra-
zors were chosen as weapons, ana they
Immediately repaired to the alley in the
rear of the house.
No one in the house, which is owned
by Ann Polly, a colored woman, and OPP
| Grated as roOming house, knew any
| thing about their differences. They were
in their room up stairs, together, and
| they were seen to. pass through a rear
door to the alley In a few moments
curses and groans were heard coming
from the alley and in an instant the &C.
cupants of the house ran to the scene
and beheld the two men struggling in a
heap on the ground. They were covered
with blood and were fighting like de-
mons.
Emil Lundgren, Of $50 Wacouta street,
an eye witness of the ARRAY. says that
he saw them struggling and writhing.
and by the time he arrived on the scene
Gray, the larger man, was under, and
l 1ntp crimson W. ~ yiy1er or
portunity. He said that Gray was evil
IDENTIFY weak from the loss of blood and
that, having lost the use of his left arm,
| the biceps muscle being severed, he was
no longer in the fight, and lay there at
! the mercy of Hutchinson. There was a
| crowd of men and women around the
men. They formed a ring and seemed
| to enjoy the spectacle. No one would
interfere, and they seemed willing to let
the men fight it out Finally Hutchin-
son, seeing that Gray was unable longer
| to raise his arms, stepped aside and
viewed the PROSTATE form of his antag
onist with evident satisfaction. The
crowd was bewildered. They saw Gray
suffering, but they did not dare to step
near him for fear Hutchinson might in
his fury use his razor on any person who
might try to assist his antagonist.
At this juncture Mr.. Lundgren went to
a telephone and called the central patrol
wagon. In a few moments several Of
| ficers were on the scene, and Hutchinson
seeing that to try to escape would mean
death, gave himself up. Gray was also
| loaded into the wagon and taken to the
| city hospital.
The doctors at the hospital stated that
! they had never seen a man SO badly AMI
yet not fatally carved, and they think
Gray will eventually recover the use Of
his injured arm and hand.
Gray received five cuts. One five inches
long on his left arm, below the shoulder,
completely severed the biceps muscle,
penetrating to the bone. The muscle
was sutured and may knit together. A
cut six inches long on the right side of
the abdomen did not penetrate the alb
dominal cavity; another cut, six inches
long, on the left thigh, just above the
| knee, penetrated to the bone. The third
cut, three inches long, was on the inner
side of the right thigh. The fifth wound
was a cut three inches long on the right
hand, across the palm and fingers. This
severed all the tendons and cut into the
bone and was caused by Gray grasping
the razor. Several stitches were neces-
sary.
Hutchinson received one cut on the
| right side of the head, just below the ear,
and one ugly cut above the ear and pene-
tratlng to the honey part OF the skull
The men were roommates and, accord
! Ing to the other roomers at the house,
| they had always been on friendly terms
Gray is barber in the shop of Charles
! Mason, Fourth and Sibley Streets and
| Hutchinson is a saloon porter in a sa-
! loon at Seventh and Minnesota streets
A man who claims to have seen the
men in the alley before they cut each
other, says that they stood there facing
| each other as if the matter had been
previously arranged. He did not see
any razors and did not know what was
going on, so he passed by not thinking
/ they were preparing for a fight. He is
| positive that the men he saw are Gray
! and Hutchinson.
Inc police found Gray's razor lying by
! his side, but they could not find Hutchin-
sons razor. 1t is said that Hutchinson,
as soon as he saw Officer Hennessy COM
ing, threw his razor away. Gray's ra-
Zor was covered with blood.
! Clio e reporter talked with Hut
Crimson at the station last night. He was
! in a delirium and did not seem to know
what he was saying. Twelve stitches
/ were taken in his wounds.