The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-31
NEGRESS ROUTED
-FOUR WHITE MEN
She Claims That the Quartette
Attempted to Murder Her.
THREE FLED pREclPITATELY
Only Sound Onein Party Received Cash
in the Head That Required Ten
Stitches-SIept While Surgeon
Sewed Up His Wound:
THREE FLED PRECIPITATELY

To a Richmond negro woman, Sarah
Evans, belongs the credit OF having rout-
ed four white men, one Of whom was SO
badly injured as to need the attention Of
the ambulance surgeon of the City Hos
pitai, ten or more stitches being required
To sew up wound in his head While
the remarkable fight of the woman is
ultls sual in police circles, the demeanor of
the injured white man while being
worked upon by the physician is regard
ed as extraordinary. The fellow actually
went sound asleep while the doctor was
stitching together the ugly wound in his
scaip, displaying such nerve as was never
encountered by the man. of medicine be-
fore.
Shortly after II o'clock last night
man who later gave his name as Clarence
Williams, staggered into the First Police
Station. He was covered with blood
which was flowing freely from his head
That he was badly injured Captain Angle
at once discovered, and Immediately called
the City Hospital ambulance.
Following directly behind the bloody
man came an equally bloody negro wo-
man She was very much excited. stating
that several white men had attempted to
murder her near the Big Four saloon,
on Seventeenth Street
NERVE OR LACK OF IT.
During the interval that elapsed before
the ambulance arrived at the station Will
liams dozed off into a peaceful slunlber.
He forgot to leave a call with the house
sergeant. and some little trouble was ex-
perienced in awakening him when the
physician finally arrived.
Tho physician first bathed the wound on
I f1rp e aft yThj oh ha CHA
off quite a large bunch Of hair. He then
commenced sewing the wound, and several
people who were standing about turned
away, not caring to witness the antici-
patett agony Cd Williams.
\ But they drew their conclusions too
! soon for the man never fiinched, and
! before the work was completed was
| sound asleep. the physician being com
| PEELED to hold up his head while he put
| the finishing touches on the job. When
! he was through Williams was awakened
and bathed his face. never once referring
{, to tie injury or the work of the physician.
The fight in which the negro woman
/ covered herself with glory in the eyes
of the colored population of the First
/ Police District, and in which the nervy
man was injured, is somewhat of a
mystery, the police being compelled to
dismiss the woman for lack of evidence.
WE'RE CLEANED UP
From the best accounts obtainable it
seems that Williams and three other men,
al OF whom reached Richmond yester-
day They drank freely in the First
| Police District and by night were pretty
thoroughly under the influence of liquor
l Two of the men We're on chcrutse while
a third carried his arm in sling. Will
liams was the only sound man in the lot,
| apparently.
After visiting various resorts in the
| vicinity OF the Police Station, the men
aubled off up Seventeenth Street where
they encountered the human tigress The
four men and the one woman beca me>in-
/ volved in a difficulty. and in about a pair
of seconds she made it SO warm for the
party that the two men on crutclfes
dropped their props and flew up the
street The man with the bad arm lost
himself around corner. and Williams,
the only sound man in the party, was
slugged in the head. He fled to the
Police Station.
During the scrap the woman was
struck only once. cash over the eye
being the extent of her injuries. Alto
gether the case is regarded as one Of
the most rena rlsab BILE the officers have had
IN a long time.