Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-06
.RAzORS And Guns At PARTY
Weapons Of War Turn Colored Society
Function Into Deadly Battle.
TWO SOCIAL LEADERS ARE WOUNDED
Albert Washington shot In Body and
John HoItE In Les, and George,
Carter. Host, IL Under
Arrest.
TWO SOCIAL LEADERS ARE WOUNDED

George Carter, colored OF lois Clark
street, at whose horne a party was given
Saturday night, was arrested Sunday by
the police and charged at the city jail
with shooting with intent to kill Albert
Washington. a boarder at the Carter place
and a guest at Saturday nights function.
The injured man is being cared for in
! the matron's department at the city jail,
where he was attended by Police Surgeon
Gilmore. More than half of a load Of gun
shot entered Washington's body The
mans wounds are not Of a serious nature.
John HoltE of SIC North Fifteenth street,
another guest of the party, Is confined to
| his bed with a bullet wound in his right
| leg There is some uncertainty as TO who
shot HoltE as the party was progressing
so lively for few minutes that It was
! impossible for anyone to remember Just
what happened.
After the arrest Carter admitted shoot
ing at Washington, saying he was merely
defending his sister and mother, whom
/ Washington had insulted and assaulted.
! Carter maintained that his mother and
sister were giving the party, while Wash
ington claimed he was giving one Of his
| Sa turday night at homes in honor of
| his twenty-ninth birthday anniversary.
| There appeared to be a wide divergence
Of opinion as to who was doing the enter
! tanning.
From reports of some of the guests. there
! seemed to have been plenty Of activity
after Carter and Washington quarreled
| over the matter Of precedence in entering
/ the dining room for the midnight spread.
In the center of the table Miss Carter
had placed large watermelon, which
doomed up in its Napoleonic splendor A
| score of the guests peeped at the luscious
| fruit through a curtain with anticipatory
anguish while Carter and Washington
argued. Carter insisted on his rights and
Washington grew angry.
Graphic Account of the War.
What followed was told yesterday morn
ing by Mrs. John Holtz, wife of one of the
victims of the party. Mrs Holtz took II
| all good naturally. She said:
II don't know jes how to staht, but the
first thing I member was when that man
Washington trun a lighted lamp at Cahtsh
Cahtah lodged the lamp, which fell at my
feet an 'sploded right there. I gin to
notice things an the first thing I knows
was more lamps. Washington then trur
| a lamp at old Nanny Cahtah, the por ole
soul. Things is gittin' mighty lively by
| that time. Cahtah, he doan say much
| I'll Washington gin TO fussin wifi razah
| then Washington say something like a mar
! what is going TO do some cuttin on Miss
| Cahtah, an then he knock her down; Their
| Cahtah he ran out of the house over tc
Browns house an he get a gun. While
Cahtah was comm wifi de gun Washington
| broke up the rest of the lamps Cahtaf
| he brings the gun in the back doah and
! Washington goes out the front doah
| Cahtah heeard about the rest Of tn,
anxiety, so he jes tole the folks to get way
| from the front Of the gun and an glib hin
| the road. He shot through the screer
| doah, but nobody heard nothin' 'ceptin tn,
repeat I'll hears that Washington wa,
stopped by the police on Sixteenth stree
with a whole load of shot inside him
| Just fore Cahtah shoots my man wal
standn' close to Cahtah an after the frs
frin' John moves away an someone sho
him In the leg. An then gin to thinl
bout that melon stahin' me IN the face o,
the table, AN tells them ali they bette
be eatin' the fruit what the good Lord sen
them than shootin' an breakin' Iamps an
gettin' their names in the papers mem
beers that one Of the bullets went right owe
my nose and fell into the hands OF Fmm,
Eubanks. She nearly was skeered to dealt
when she opened her hands and seen tina
bullet.
mo noah of this society life for thi
| gal"