The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01
SWEDE IS STABBED
HENRY ERICSSON SERIOUSLY IN-
 JURED BY UNKNOWN PARTY.
Quarrel fin Street Car in West End May Have Fatal Outceme---Assati- and Makes Good His
 Escape.

Seriously stabbed by an unknown white man at 11:15 o'clock last night. in West End, Henry Ericsson. Swede living at 3s Clisby Park. was in pre- carious condition at an early hour this morning at St. Margarets Hospital His assailant Is being hunted by the police
 Ericsson was stabbed with knife and the right plural cavity was pen- etrated. He also received two deep gashes on his left arm-
 Accurate information as to the cir- cumstances which led up to the cutting was difficult to obtain. The wounded man, speaking broken English, was too weak from loss of blood to relate the details coherently. It Is known. how ever that he and tfs unknown man were on a street car In West End near the old car shed at the end of the line. when words started which brought on the ditflculty.
 In Swedish dialect, Ericsson exhaust ed from loss of blood. whispered an all most unintelligible and disconnected account of the trouble. From what could be gathered. it appeared that Ericsson and a friend, whom he called Hutton Martinere, either went to Electric Park or to the city last night from West End with a young woman. After Fries son separated from his companions, he
  accosted by a white man whom he did not know. The stranger insisted that he had previously known Ericsson, but the latter told him he was mistaken. A few words followed in apparent good humor, when. without warning, the stranger drew his knife and attacked Ericsson.
 Another Version.
 Motorman O. c. Cone and Conductor C. Harrison were on the car when the attack was made. They were both q witnesses to the starting Of the difficulty. Motormaa Cones version or the affair differs from that of Erricsson.
 We were going from the ety. ne said at the car barn on Bainbridge Street after the cutting. "and were within a block of the old shed at the end of the line. When on Clay Street. near the inter section of Seventh Avenue. the two men got on the car. When we reached the end of the line we revers- ed the trolley and had started back when the men began fighting and screamed to me to stop the car. l did so as quickly as I could
 The men got off the car at Seventh Avenue, went a few paces into the dark, the knife was drawn and the cutting occurred. After 1t was all over the men got back on the car. The wounded man laid down on seat and I started the car hurriedly back to town. The man who did the cutting got off on Bell Street"
 Asks After Victim.
 When we made our last trip out to West End and were coming in, the man who did the cutting met us at Chap pelrs and asked how the injured man was getting along. He then disap- peared. I don't know his name but would know him If I would see him again, ''
 The West End car, bearing the bleed ing man. stopped at the Exchange Hotel and he was driven in a carriage to Knabes drug store, where surgical aid was summoned. On account of the latencss of the hour, assistance was slow in arriving and the injured man was finally taken to the office of Dex- ter Avenue physician.
 The condition of the man was regard ed as critical. After dressing the wounds Ericsson was taken to the hos pital.
 Ericsson was employed at Cramtons s blaming mills and. 1t was said, had pre- viously had employment at Wilkes stables.