The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-08
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IN EAST RALEIGH
Will Mangum of Durham at
Deaths Door.
JOHN KELLY Is ACCUSED
Witnesses and Mangum Say Negro Livery
Stable 0waer Did i, but Kelly
Denies any knowledge
Of the Cutting.

A Durham man lies at deaths door at
half past four o'clock this morning.
He is VIII Mangum, of Durham, who
has been in Raleigh attending the Carni-
val
John Kelly, the negro livery stable
owner and hack driver, is accused of the
cutting which puts Mangum's life in dan
ger, but he denies it.
Last night and this morning Mangum
was in East Raleigh. About half past
two o'clock a hack dashed up to Bobbitt
and Wynne's drug store and from it came
a man, his throat slashed open and bleed
ing.
He was laid on the floor and the rattle
of wind through his wind pipe, cut nearly
in half, could be heard throughout the
store. Friends paid careful attention tc
hm, and from him it was learned that he
had been cut by hack driver
Physicians came, DR.. Henry Mckee
Tucker and DR.. Knox. They examined
the man, found him in a dangerous con-
dition, and having bound his neck with
cotton and bandages took him to Rex
Hospital where before day they will sew
/ up his wind pipe and throat.
Captain Thompson heard of the trouble
and was quickly in East Raleigh. He
found that trouble had taken place or
the front porch of house there kept by
Annie Taylor. There was blood all over
the porch.
] Annie Taylor on being questioned SAID
that John Kelly had cut Mangum's throat
! that she had seen him slash at Mangun
! whilo she was a her front door.
/ Captain Thompson had met Kelly driv.
! ing from East Raleigh in the direction ol
/ the city. He called to Kelly, not think
! ing he was the man ne was after, bu
Kelly did not answer and drove on. Cap.
/ tain Thompson made his investigation
and came back to the station.
/ Policemen weer put on the lookout FOL
Kelly He could not be found on thu
streets with his hack or at the depot
/ Captain Thompson and Policemen
! Creighton and A. Upchurch, with New!
and Observer reported. took hack anC
went to Kellys house in West Raleigh
near Pullen Park.
! Kelly's wife answered the call and final
/ iy admitted the officers Kelly had ar
rived at home shortly before and wa.
partially undressed He was heavily un
der the influence of liquor and staggered
| He denied having had any difficulty will
Mangum, but said he was in East Raleigl
AID that while there he had some words
with Mr.. Jack Murphey That Mr.. Muir
phey had cut him once four years ago
and that being afraid OF him he got out
pistol he had in his hack and told Muir
| phey to, keep away from him.
Kelly made no resistance and agreed I,
come at once though he asked if he coult
give bail His wife wept bitterly whel
tod the trouble and said: "Oh, how mucl
trouble whiskey has caused 1t is tina
that brings en- trouble. John has alway
been kind to me, but he has given me
great deal of trouble by drinking"
Other parties in East Raleigh say tha
Kelly and Mangum had words. presumab
ly about paying for hack fare Margun
being questioned by a friend at Re,
Hospital said that a driver named John
with silk nat, had cut him. Kelly ha'
on a hat of this kind and the dcscrip
! ton fits him.
When brought to the guard house an
searched no knife was found on Kelly
He said he had none. The high hat h
wore was found in a bed room at hi
home and brought to the station hous
with Kelly. 1t was bruised and had dir
on it as if it had been damaged IN a tus
sic.
When Mangum rushed from Annie Tay
| lors front porch he jumped in Free
Gooch's hack. in which there was a youn
man, and cried out: my throat is cut
get me TO a doctor" When he got ou
at Bobbitt and Wynne's drug store tn
blood was pouring from the terrible
cash across the throat and he again said
MY throat is cut
Mangum is about twenty eight year
Old. is married, and has a child. He is
brother -in-law of J. NJ. Dixon, who ha
a bar here Mangum IS employed by
brewing establishment in Durham.
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