The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-09
NEGROES CARVED EACH OTHER
ARRAY mt PierpOnt Co.'s Works Leads
TO a Double Cutting.


John Lewis. alias Redmond Lewis col
ored. and Ben Albright, also colored, got
into a fight yesterday and were both seri-
ously cut. The detectives were not noti-
fed of the occurrence until after 10 o'clock
hast night They immediately went to
the house of the men and after consider
able difficulty located and arrested Lewis.
The other man, by the time the detec-
tives arrived, had been put on the Lincoln
Park car and sent to the city after which
he was taken to the Georgia Infirmary
The prompt work of Detectives Murphy
and Stark in making the arrest is to their
credit as not only had both of the men
ample time to escape, before the noth-
cation of the trouble reached the bar
racks, but the message itself was very
vague merely giving the fact that the
trouble had occurred at the Basket Fac
tory" and not even giving the names of
the men that were the principals in the
row.
The detectives lost no time in getting
to the basket factory, on the Louisville
road. and arrived there, only to find that
they were on the wrong track. On the
way out Patrolman Cronin was found,
and he Joined in the search for the men.
1t was finally discovered that there was
wounded man in Wopdsville, the negro
settlement to the rear of Lincoln Park,
so visit was made to the place, and
after considerable inquiry, the house
where the wounded man was supposed
to be located. Detective Murphy and
Cronin cautiously went to the house,
stumbling over corn hills, and narrowly
missing a sunken well in their approach,
but finally coming to the house so quietly
that none of its inmates were aware of
their presence until the detective opeTed
window and grabbed Lewis as he lay
in bed asleep. The negro let out yell
that would not have disgraced a Conan
che, but the detective held on to him
until his wife got up and opened the
door Then both of the officers went in,
made Lewis get up and dress and brought
him to the city with them. stop was
made at the home of Albright who lives
i'm the same neighborfiood, but that mans
friends had already sent him to the in
Urinary.
Lewis has two bad cuts, one of the left
side of the head and another in the right
thigh, both made, so he says, with hook
used at the Pierpont Manufacturing Com
pany, where both of the men work. The
story told by Lewis, pretty straight one,
is TO the effect that when he changed
his clothes yesterday and put on his
working rig, Albright took dollar from
the discarded outfit and refused to return
II 1t seems that the matter was dropped
for awhile, but later while Lewis was
at work Albright left his job and corn
ing over to the other man assaulted him
with the hook, making the two wounds
mentioned Lewis got into the game with
knife and gave his assailant two Sc
rious wounds. one in the back and the
other in the side.
Though Lewis wounds made It almost
impossible for him to walk from his house
to the roadside where the wagon was,
so that he had to be carried, yet once IN
the wagon he not only talked freely of
the scrap that he had been in, but begged
a cigarette which he nonchalently puffed
during the ride to the city.