The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-05
ACROSS OWN THROAT
PERCY MoULDEN DREW RAZOR
AFTER CUTTING HIS PARAMoUR-
GEORGE NOBLE WILL DIE
AND THE MAN WHO CUT HER HAS
ONLY A SLIM CHANCE.

Well Known Negroes Bloody Work
mOur in WaIdburg Lane, Near
CuyIer Street-Man and Woman
We're Sitting at Breakfast Table
When MouIden Went to work
With His WeapOn-Had Separated
from Woman, but Wanted TO Go
Back to Her.
Feeling that life was not worth liv-
ing because his paramour refused to
forget the past and live with him again,
Percy Moulden, a we'll known negro,
probably fatally wounded George No
BILE and then attempted suicide in a
house in Waldburg lane, near Cuyler
street, yesterday morning.
Moulden used a razor and cut the
woman's throat. When she ran he
stuck the sharp blade into the back
of her neck. He then drew the weap-
on across his own throat and was
holding his head over a table and
bleeding profusely, when people. in the
house ran into the room.
The woman is at the Georgia Infirm-
airy in precarious condition and
Moulden has only a slim chance for
recovery. Neither has been able to
make statement, and there were no
witnesses to the assault
Moulden and the woman were sitting
at the breakfast table when he decided
to do his bloody work. Just when he
went to the house the police were un-
able to learn, but 1t is not believed
that he spent the night there. The
woman rented a room on the first floor,
IN the rear, directly under Dorsey's
Hall. Moulden lived with her in these
apartments up to a few weeks ago
He has a wife who lives with his
mother in the eastern end of Waldburg
lane. Whether Moulden's wife was the
cause of the trouble that resulted in
a separation Is not known to the po-
lice.
Carried Razor with Him.
1t is presumed that Moulden went to
the house for the purpose of trying to
get the woman to make up with him.
he carried the razor with him. There
was a woman in an adjoining room
and man upstairs, but neither heard
any loud talking. The first intimation
that either had of anything being
wrong was when the woman screamed.
The man on the second floor rushed
down stairs and in the room at the
foot of the steps a sickening sight met
his gaze.
The woman had run to the yard and
the blood was flowing freely from two
gaping wounds in the throat and neck.
Moulden was leaning over the table
upon which breakfast had been set,
With the blood coming in spurts from
a CHASTITY wound in the throat The
bloody razor was by his arm on the
table.
Neither Could Talk.
Neither the man NOR woman could
talk, and physicians were summoned
promptly. Mounted patroImen and de-
tectives were early on the scene, and
the razor was taken in charge by the
oflcerS. The woman was carried to her
sisters home. on .Waldburg street, and
Moulden was laid out on a lounge in
the front room of the house in which
the bloody work was DONE
The wounds were temporarily dress
ed, and the woman was first sent to
the Georgia Infirmary in the police am
bulance. Moulden was taken to the
same hospital shortly afterwards. The
condition of both was announced as
critical, and no statement of the man.
ner in which the ARRAY came about
could be obtained. Several hundred
curious negroes gathered, and the uni
FORMED men nad dlfnculty in keeping
the crowd out of the house before
the man and woman were taken to the
hospital
Moulden was for years employed as a
delivery messenger by the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and was
known on all sides as an industrious
and respectable negro. He is a tall
mulatto and is very we'll known to
many white people. The police were
surprised when they learned his iden-
tity.