The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23
s. c. Miller, His AsSaiIant, Caught By Former Sheriff
 Smith After a Chase
MAN USED HIS LONG KNIFE
 WITHOUT LEAST WARNING
Rainbow Is Hurried to Hospital, Where lie Painted From Loss of Blood, and Died at 2 o'clock
 This Morning.

Fred w. Rawbow, probably one of the best known saloon men in Birmingham, was fatally cut yesterday afternoon by S. c. Miller, a white man, and died this morning at 2:1O o'clock at St. Vincent's hospital.
 The cutting occurred about o'clock in Mr. Rambow's saloon on Twentieth street between First and Second avenues. Four ugly knife wounds were inflicted, and although Mir. Rainbow was carried with great haste to the hospital the extreme loss of blood before he reached there caused unconsciousness, and little hope was entertained for his life.
 Little Is known of s. c. Miller, the man who used the knife with such fatal result. as he refused to talk after he was arrested.
 The trouble is said to have started with a fuss between Miller and a colored bartender in the saloon. Miller is said to have slipped on a banana or some sort of peeling and came near falling to the floor. The negro bartender be- came amused at the incident and is said to have laughed at Miller's misfortune The half-intoxicated man then went to MT. Rainbow and asked If he allowed the negro employees in his saloon to act in such manner toward his patrons, and demanded that the bartender be dis charged immediately. From accounts 1t seems that MT. Ram Tell ,I he had no one to put in his place at the moment he could not discharge the negro, but that he would do so as soon as "the other man. came
 Miller Became Obnoxious.
 Miller then hung around the place for some time and is said to have been in- terfering with other people in the saloon when MT. Rainbow came out from be- hind the counter and asked him either to sit down and behave himself or get out of the place. Miller resented the ao .on and replied In very hot words. He is said to have cursed MT. Ram bow and upon movement on the part of the proprietor of the place toward his counter. the enraged man attacked the other and sashed him across the abdo- men four times before he could move. large spring back knife with 0 blade about four inches long was used.
 In a second after he had cut MT Ram bow, Miller had darted out of the sa- loon and broke into a run down Twen- t-ta street toward First avenue, with fo-ner Sheriff ]. s. Smith close at his heels He ran for some distance four ishing the knife in his hand, and no one dared attempt to stop him. Shortly before reaching First avenue, however, he threw the knife into the street, and just as he ran past the Woodward cor her he was intercepted and turned over to Officer Gates of the police force, who sent him to the city jail to be locked dp.
 Hurried to Hospital.
 On account of the serious nature of the wounds sustained by Mfr. Rainbow, an ambulance was not waited for. but h. was put into a hack and driven as rapidly as possible to St. vincents. Upon examination at the hospital it was found that four ugly wounds had been inflicted in the lower part of the abdomen, any one of which might have proven fatal, and in one place the knife even pierced the liver to some depth. The four wounds almost disemboweled the unfortunate man.
 Several large veins were apparently severed and 1t was stated at the hos pital last night that practically all of the blood flowed cut of his body be- fore 1t was possible to get him on the operating table. He was unconscious from the time he reached the hospital and it was not believed that he would live through the night.
 We'll Known Citizen.
 Fred w. Rainbow was a married man and lived at 51S South Twelfth street. He has been living in Birmingham for a number of years and has been signally successful in business here. He had many friends in the city and was one of the best known saloon men here.
 S. C. Miller, from the appearance he presented yesterday afternoon, Is not a man of very high standing, and Is ap- parently a stranger here, as no one seem- ] GU to know him. His features indicate tha; he is of foreign birth, and 1t is believed that the name he gave the off, cers Is an alias.