The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-06
THROAT SLASH|NG
ON SATURDAY NIGHT
Whiskey Figures in Two Cut
ting ARRAYS.
NEGRO CUTS A WOMAN
Another intoxicated segro Attemp.sIo Act The
Arbitrator in a Family Fuss and
He Gets His Face

Two cases which came near resulting II
death last night are the latest contribu-
| tions OF whiskey to the crimes OF TIE
| city. IN both cases knives were used, and
It IS mere good fortune that with the
blood letting lives did not go out.
one of these came from the drunken in
reference Of Il negro III a quarrel between
husband and wife, and the other when Z
negro man, reported to have been drink
ing, slashed the throat Of a d~epraVed white
woman, a victim Of whiskey drinking and
the grossest Geb1uchery.
Lou Della Prince is the white woman
whose throat was slashed. She has sunk
to the lowest depths of degradation and
c~onsorts with negroes in a nelghborhood
of shame and infamy in Raleigh, known
as The BoWery,' filthy III its own wick
edness and rampant on Saturday night
with Whiskey-soaked specimens.
The first known of the trouble was when
Mary Lee, a negro woman, came rushing
up town last night shortly after 8 o'clock.
She said the Prince Woman's throat was
cut and a doctor was needed. A kind
hearted citizen gave her 4 quarter and she
brought the wounded woman to Hicks
UNIV oSiitili tAoA AASy
was some trouble in securing medical at
tention for the woman, who was finally
taken to Rex Hospital. After she had
started City Physician R. S. McGeachy
reached the drug store and by telephone
instructed she be received at Rex, and one
Of the physicians on duty be notified. No
physician was there and about three quar-
tiers Of an hour later DR.. McGeachy at
} tended the woman at the hospital.
Her home is in The Bowery' on Daw-
son street, near Lenoir. A visit to the
place showed that the woman had bled
freely. On the back door steps and just
within the door there was much blood
where the life fluid had gushed from her
throat.
The woman herself had told two stories
One was that a white man, with whom
she had been seen during the day, had
come back about 8 o'clock, and finding
some one else in the room had cut her
throat at the door when she refused to
admit him The second is that her throat
was cut by a negro man who was in her
room.
Mary Lee, a negro woman who lives
near at hand, says that Lou Della came
shrieking that her throat was cut. She
managed to get d carriage and took the
woman to Rex Hospital, being told by
her that a negro man was IN her room
when the white man cut her throat.
But Franklin Lee, another outcast white
woman consorting with negroes, a friend
of the Prince woman, tells another story.
She says that Henry Curtis, a negro, came
to he, at her house and said he had cut
Lou Della. He gave frankie his knife
and then fled. He has been a driver for
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could not find him last night. It Is thought
that he has gone to the country, and it
is reported that this negro had been drink
ing with the Prince woman. A number
of freshly emptied TASKS Of liquor were
found in the room where the cutting took
place.
Negroes in the house next to Lou Del
las home, a one room place, say that they
heard a fuss and noise at her house, but
as Lou Della frequently got drunk and
raised a fuss they thought nothing Of it
till her shrieks finally led TO an investi-
CATION. Lou Della finally made her way
to Mary Lees house, whore it was seen
that her throat was cut, and she was taken
to Rex Hospital.
DR.. McGeachy says the cut is on the left
size Of the neck, from left to right, extend
ing from about two inches below the ear
to one inch to the right of the median line
of the neck. The external jugular vein
was cut, as we'll as a few small arteries.
AT the hospital the VEN was lIgated and
the ugly wound closed. DR.. McGeachy
was assisted by DR.. McNider and by Mr..
Sharp. OF the Medical College, and he
says the wound is serious, but not apt to
be fatal.
The woman could not b. seen last night
! at Rex. but the last word from there was
that she was resting quietly. The police
are after Curtis and hope to land him to-
day. Parties in the neighborhood say that
l the Prince woman often gets drunk and
raises a row. She has served several times
on the county road force for drunkenness
and indecent exposure. Under the in
2 fuence Of opiates she is at Rex, while the
! man who cut her IS being sought. She
had been drinking, as had the negro, who
was in her room, and It is understood
l that the whiskey put the devil into then
, heads The case will be heard before
l Mayor Powell as soon as the woman is bet
e ter and the outlook is a gloomy one for
! Curtis if he IS caught. He is a medium
l height, yellow negro, and wears a light
hat. The police are after him. and it is
7 apt his drunkenness and that Of the wo.
man will lead him to deep water.
MORO SLASHES NEGRO.
f With blood streaming from. two terrible
: gashes, Jeff Stevenson, a negro, came rush.
i ing into the drug store Of Mr.. James l
Johnson last night and called for witch
hazel. His head and throat were bandaged
t and his shirt looked as if it had been
0 bathed IN blood. The cash on his cheeF
was fully three inches in length and one
8 on his head was laid open about an incl
t deep. The cutting was done near the store
of Mr.. Hamilton, on the corner Of Smith
field and Bloodworth street, just on The
I edge of town.
< Stevenson says he and Zclous Jolly
5 another negro, had some difficulty, and he
told him he was going to lave him ar
5 rested.
Y 1t appears that Jefferson Stevenson
found Jealous Jolly beating his wife. Stew
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