The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
HAD RAZOR N HIS POCKET
WILLIAM JACKSON DOES SOME
FANCY CARVING ON TOM
BOLDEN'S FIGURE
TROUBLE ON THE TAR FLOOR
Asphalt Paving WOrkmen End a Col
loquy With q Passage at Arms,
and Hospital STATS
Are Busy.

Because Tom Bolden, colored, hit him
with a rake, William Jackson, also color
ed, took occasion to carve Bolden with
a razor, which he happened to have han
dy in his pocket
The men are both laborers, working
for the Barber Asphalt Paving company,
and were engaged in repairing East Sew
enth street, near Wacouta. Shortly be-
fore o'clock last evening, Jackson
claims, Bolden was telling the rest of
the boys and himself as to how he used
to stop street cars in Chicago, when
he worked at the same trade there, when
he (Jackson) made a remark in a jok-
Ing way to one of the other boys that
Tom was Smoking now. One of the 9th
ef Workmen, who heard this, called Boil
denis attention to what Jackson had said,
and he turned around and asked Jack
son about it.
This led to further argument and, as
Jackson claims, before he knew any,
thing about how serious Bolden was,
Bolden struck him with a rake, knocking
him down. Jackson says that Bolden
hit him several times with the rake after
he was down, and that Jackson's broth
er Simon, who was also working there,
started to help Jackson. jackson finally
got up, and Bolden again made for him
with the rake.
Jackson, being the smaller man of the
two, happened to think of a razor he
had in his pocket that he was going to
have sharpened, and quick as flash he
had the razor out of its resting place
and did some very quick work with it.
He only made one slash, however, when
Belden started to run away, and some of
the workmen told Jackson ne had better
go too, So he went to his home, 206 West
Sixth street, where Lieut. Meyerding and
Officer Murnane found him a little while
later.
In the meantime, officer Neuma1fn
went to the Maple Leaf hotel on East
Third street, where Bolden lived, and
found him there. Bo1den was bleeding
freely, and was taken in the patrol wa
gon to- the city hospital, where it took
the doctors nearly an hour to sew the
cut up and stop the bleeding. He came
very near bleeding to death and had to
be given stimulants to brace him up. The
cut is an ugly one, and starts on the
back of the head OH the skull and runs
down along the side to about two inches
below the angle of the jaw on the left
side. 1t is nine inches long and is from
one-half to three-quarters of an inch
deep. Bolden will recover, and was rest
ing very nicely last night. He is twenty
four years old, and Jackson, who did
the carving, is only nineteen years OF
age.
Bolden is called the world-wonder
among the colored people he worked
with, as he has been all over the United
States. He claims to have come to st.
Paul from Cairo ILL.,, about a year ago.
Jackson is living with his folks at FOG
West Sixth street, and is feeling very
bad over the affair When seen at the
station last evening, he said that he was
not in the habit of carrying a razor, but
had just taken this one down to have
it sharpened for a man who stayed at
his folks place. He also said that he
only used it in self-defense, and that he
had not had any trouble before, but had
always gotten along all right with his as
sociates. The men are both charged
with assault and battery on the tab at
the central police station