The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-24
CUTS BLIND MAN
 AND STABS WIFE
"Mincy" is Victim of an Iron
 MouIder Named Baker
MRS. MlNCY WAS INSULTED
She Told Her Blind Husband Who Struck the Man With a Cane, and Baker Then Cut
 Them Both.

Despite the fact that he was struck
 first by the blind man, the attack of
 young white man named Baker upon
 Mincy, the well-known blind news seller
 who may be seen any day upon the streets of Birmingham following a bright
 eyed, shrewd-faeed little girl who leads
 him about from early morning until late at night. was a heartess one indeed; and
 not satisfied with stabbing the blind man
 in the abdomen three or four times. Baker
 plunged his knife into the body of Mincy's
 wife, inficting a serious and possibly a fatal wound.
 l While Mincy's record as a citizen is all smeared up, and despite the fact that | from his conduct as citizen he has pos sibly not more than half a dozen friends 1 in the city limits of Birmingham, 1t seems I almost impossible that a man would be
 heartless enough to attack a blind man
 with knife and then stab and, maybe, fatally wound his wife.
 Such, however, was the performance
 which took place last night about 1o:3O o'clock in the old Stewart building, on the corner of Avenue B and Twenty-first street. where Mincy makes his headquar- ters of business for the several branches l in which he deals
 Insult to Mrs. Mincy. The trouble seems to have grown out of an insult to, Mincy's wife on the part
 of Baker. Mrs. Mincy' Is said to have been going down the hall in the building when she was met by Baker who made
 a very insulting remark to her. She went back to her room and told Mincy of the | affair, and as they stepped out into the hall he asked her, Where is he?" Just l as he said this Baker walked down the hall and the woman said, Here he is now" and quick as lightning the blind
 man raised knot on Bakers head with the stick which he carried
 Baker then, without any warning, at
 tackled the blind man with an open pocket
 knife and in a twinkllng of an eye inflict-
 ed three or four wounds in his abdomen. He then turned on the wife and stabbed her just below the right breast and n- fiicted dangerous wound. The wounds sustained by the man are not believed
 to be very serious, but the woman is be- | lieved to be bleeding internally from the
 wound which she received, and for this ! reason 1t may cause considerable trouble
 Taken to Hospital.
 Shortly after the stabbing Mincy was l carried to the HIllman hospital, where he
 was given medical attention, and it is be- l lieved that he will be out in a few days | His wife, however, refused to be taken to the hospital, although her wound was leave her children. She remained with
 them last night. and was given medical attention In her room
 Baker Is said to be molder by trade. and has been living in Avondale, or near there. He was located last night about
 midnight by Officer Larue, of the police
 force, and Officer Nix, with MT. Larue.
 went to Avondale shortly after midnight to try to effect his arrest
 There is probably no man in Birming- ham whose face Is more widely known
 than Mincy's. He has been selling papers on the streets of Birmingham for a num- Der of years, and he is always associated In ones mind with the little girl who leads him about She Is as shrewd as the
 smartest of the newsboys and is very
 probably the means of living of Mincy and
 his family, as she has numerous "custo-
 mers" among travelling and business men
 who buy the morning paper. Mincy's wife also makes a business of selling newspa- pers; in fact. the whole Mincy family are lively 'newsies"