Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-04-03
He USED HIS RAZOR,
A Row,In = West Side Saloon Sunday
Morning Ends in
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Both Parties Are Strangers In This City,
. The Cutter Claims
Self Defense.

CnaC occurred IN the saloon Oh
Stanislaus Wachlarowich Sunday
morning, one man IL In St. Gabriel's
hospital with u deep cash in his head
inflicted by q razor, and two Others
occupy cells in tn city lookup.
All parties to the affair are
strangers in this city, The Injured
mans name is given as William
Dean, and the man that used the
razor gives his name as w. w.
NuxOn. The third man claims his
name Is John Dean, and he says he
IL a brother OF the injured man.
All three were apparently consider
! ably Intoxicated when the row &C.
Cured and it was also noticeable
that all of them sobered up soon
after the row was over.
AS near as can he learned the three
men happened to 90 to the saloon at
about the same time. about 9o'clock
Sunday morning. All three ordered
and ate their breakfast In the saloon,
the proprietor serving the meals.
Before and after eating they drank
quite freely.
According to the story OF the wit
nesses present the row began with
either q "bluff'' or an alteration in
earnest between the two men who
claim to I've brothers. The other
man interfered and separated them
and both attacked him.
The witnesses of the affair were
the proprietor of the saloon, a man
named Graves and another named
Murphy. They claim that after be-
ing SEPARATED one of the brothers
caught Nuxon, and threw him
down, and that he, Nuxon, ordered
his assailant to leave him alone or
he would shoot him. The row was
then temporarily stopped, but was
resumed again the, witnesses claim
by the Deans, both attacking him
with chairs. After guarding himself
a. well as he could from the blows of
the chair, and repeatedly warning
his assailants to desist, he drew his
razor and went at one OF his assail-
ants with it.
Two slashes were made with the
weapon. One cut entirely through
the clothing OF Dean on his left side
but, only inflicted q mere; scratch
about three inches In length. The
other slash was more affective, and
caught Dean about twoinches above
the left temple. From that point
the razor was drawn diagonally
down over his eye and across
his nose. The row then ceased
and all parties left the
saloon, Nuxon going out the front
door and tho 1>---'- ~,,t the back
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one .'--I5ting ia 10 uho slznll and
severtng an artery in three places
from which tire blood poured in
streams completely covering the
injured man and everyone who at
tempted to get near him to assist
him. He staggered out of the build
ing and got as far as the railroad
crossing, where he was compelled to
sit down, and q physician was sum-
moned. DR.. Millspaugh answered
the call, and soon after his arrival
the flow of blood was staunched and
the man was ordered taken to the
hospital. DIR. Millspaugh stated
that had the man been without
surgical attention much longer he
would have bled to death, but after
dressing his wound and closing the
severed artery, he said that the
wound was not necessarily danger
GUS, and the man would be able to
be out soon. 1t was surprising that
the eye was not destroyed, but in
this matter the injured man was
lucky, for by some good fortune the
eye was not injured In the least.
Nuxon made no attempt to escape,
but was found near the place of the
row shortly after when an officer
went over to arrest him He offered
no resistance, and admitted having
used the razor, but claimed. he was
acting in self DEFENSE. He was
placed in a cell in the city lookup.
At the time of Nuxon's arrest he
was still under the influence ofliquor
and was inclined to be somewhat
boastful. He claimed that he was
sorry he had not finished his man."
and made other unbecoming re-
which may have been only
the result OF his condition, or, ON
the other hand, may have been q
true expression Of his brutal in
The Deans have said but little 80
Tar about the affair. The injured
man was not in condition to talk
and the other denies having seen the
row at.all. The witnesses to the az |