The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-04-26
SIdSheS Them in Their Faces
With His Knife.
coWARDLY ATTACK MADE AT
MONDAY ON CEDAR STREET
DESPERATE MAKES GOOD HIS
EscAPE-PoLIcE MAKE LITTLE
EFFORT TO APPREHEND THE
MURDERoUs scouNDREL.

A crime that surpassed any ever
committed in the South was that of
white brute on two ladies on Cedar
street last Monday, when, without
provocation, he hacked UP their faces
with large knife until the sidewalk
was covered with blood and they were
faint with weakness. Such butchery
of helpless women has never been
heard of before in this fair southland,
and had the perpetrator been black
and the victims white he would have
been apprehended before his tracks
were cold, but despite the fact that a
black man witnessed the deed the as
sailant is yet alive and at liberty.
When will Negroes learn what to die
for?
This murderous attack took place
on Cedar street just west of the train
bridge between eleven and twelve
o'clock The two ladies, Miss Martha
Floyd and Miss Martha Wright were
on their way to work, and they stated
to a Globe representative that they
passed this man on the corner of Wal
nut and Cedar streets. He was stand
ing whiting stick. They went on
paying no attention, and had no
thought that he was bent on doing
them any harm. When they noticed
him a second time he was trampling
on their heels They asked him to de-
sist from his impudence, saying to
him that the side walk was large
enough for all of them, when, without
moments warning, he drew his knife
Il to,
He stabbed Miss Floyd several times,
and when Miss Wright begged for
mercy for her friend, he turned upon
her, cutting her face into pulp. He
then retraced his steps up Cedar street
and was soon out of sight. The young
ladies eyes were full of blood and
they were so excited they could not
tell which way ne turned when they
reached Walnut street. Blinded with
blood they made their way as best they
could to DR.. Burrus' Office, corner
Ninth avenue and Cedar street,
where their wounds were dressed. 1t
was necessary to put twenty-five
stitches in Miss Wright's face and sew
eral were taken in Miss Floyd's face.
When seen by Globe representative
at their home at 30S Capitol avenue,
the young ladies were suffering in
tense pain They presented a pitiful
sight, and the brute that butchered
them up was still at large.
The police station was called up to
ascertain whether or not the savage
had been captured, and the feeble
reply echoed back, mo" 1t will be
hard to convince the forty thousand
Negroes in this city that the police
have been vigilant in their search for
this murderous brute, but they feel
like saying To the winds with your
theory that it is the duty of every Ne
gro to assist in bringing to justice
every black criminal, for the rule will
have to work both ways to be effective.
They believe that if the police and de-
tectives had been diligent in their
search they would have captured the
thug before Monday night; but it rath
er makes them feel that this fiend is
being harbored.
The daily papers with all their ia
cilities for gathering news could not
learn anything about this assault, If
a Negro steals rotten egg they have
it before he cracks the shell.
Equally as bitter is the denunciation
of the Negro man who stood and saw
the assault and did not AS much as
give alarm. They hold that he should
have captured the brute dead or alive
and delivered him to the police au
thorities. This occurrence puts the
Negroes on a wonder what will be
next? For when it reaches the point
where innocent women cannot go to
their work without being hacked to
pieces, our civilization is receding and
we are fast drifting back to a stage
Of savagery.
Colored women must be exempted
from white brutalism.