Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-06
GIANT JAPANESE
STABS TWO MEN
BEFORE SUBCUED
Runs Amuck While in
Drunken Frenzy
Brown Man Assaults Charles Barber
and Turns Knife on Patrolman
Gardiner When Latter At
tempts Arrest

A drunken Japanese laborer of giant
stature, whose name is as yet unknown,
ran amuck on North San Fernando
street last night and before he was
beaten into submission and captured
had stabbed Charles Barber railroad
man, in the chest, head and arm and
slashed Patrolman r. A. Gardiner
across the wrist, laying muscle and
flesh open to the bone.
Wounded as he was, with the blood
squirting in gushes from the wound III
his arm, the plucky officer drew ms
club and hammered the Japanese until
finally he dropped insensible. UP to
the last moment, however, the giant
brown man was fighting with tigerish
ferocity and it was not until every
ounce of endurance had been beaten
out of him and he was absolutely ex-
hausted by the rain of blows on his
head that he gave up.
The patrol wagon was called and the
three men were hurried to the central
police station, where in the receiving
hospital their injuries were attended to.
Barber it was found, was stabbed just
over the right breast, the wound, fully
an inch and a half long, penetrating
the cavity and at the base of the left
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and to the bone, and another wound In
the head laying open the scalp for two
inches and barring the skull.
PatroIman's Wrist Cut
Patrolman Gardiner received an ugly
slash in the left wrist, extending from
near the base of the thumb diagonally
across to the side of the hand, severing
muscles, flesh and arteries. The Jap
wounds from the DlOWS
of the officers club which laid his scalp
open in many places, and he was also
struck several times in the face, break
ing his nose and otherwise disfgur1ng
his countenance so that at first he was
thought to be a Mexican.
1t was shortly after 8 o'clock that the
Jap made his appearance near River
station He was drunk and came down
the street cursing and waving his arms.
In front of No. 1440 Charles Barber,
who lives at that number, was sitting
near the edge of the sidewalk talking
.fto several friends. AS the japanese
came down the street Barber remarked
to one of his friends. Look at the
Cholo''
This evidently attracted the mans at
tention, for he made straight at Barber
and struck him. 1t was then seen tnat
he had an open knife in his hand. The
blade struck Barber on top of the mead,
cutting through hat and scalp and lay
ing the skull bare The force of the
blow knocked Barber backward, but he
was instantly on his feet and grappled
with his assailant. Again the japanese
struck and this time the knife was
buried to the hilt in Barber's breast.
Barber who is a small man, standing
not over five feet in height, hurled the
Japanese backward and striking at MIN
savagely with his fists drove him down
the street. In one of the encounters
his hand was cut and the japanese
then turned and ran toward the big
viaduct which goes over the railroad
tracks Just south of the station.
Officer Appears on Scene
At that moment Patrolman Gardiner
came upon the scene and he ran at the
Japanese, demanding his surrender.
The answer to this was savage blow
at the officer with the knife, which laid
open his wrist as described and from
which the blood gushed in streams.
Not until then did the officer draw his
club and he began raining blows on the
head of the desperate. Inch by inch
the officer and the craZed Japanese
fought their way for more than 100
yards down the street, the infuriated
man striking with his knife and the
officer with his cluD. F1nally DloW
took the Japanese across the hand and
broke the knife which he was welding
and he was then defenseless from the
attack of the policeman, who at once
grappled with and bore him to the
ground, where he finally secured him.
Barber. Guards Prisoner
Barber, who had come up in the
meantime with several of his friends
guarded the prisoner while the officer
called for the patrol wagon, and when
It arrived the wounded men were
placed in it and taken to the receiving
hospital, where Surgeons Garrett and
Clark attended to their injuries.
Barber, who is the most seriously
wounded, gave the greatest exhibition
of pluck which has ever been witnessed
in the hospital While DR.. Clark was
probing the ugly knife thrust in his
chest and placing a drain tube therein
to protect the lungs Shorty" as he is
best known, laughed and joked with
the surgeon and attendants and the
policemen, telling of incidents of the
fight, and while he must have at times
suffered excruciating pain he gave not
the slightest evidence of it.
Patrolman Gardiner was excused
from further duty after his wound was
dressed and Barber was sent to his
home. The Japanese will be held on g
charge of assault to murder.
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