Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-17
HELD SEVERED VEIN
AND 0UTRAN DEATH

Holding in his fingers the severed ends
Of a jugular vein, Ambulance Surgeon
Quil1ian gave orders for the drivers to
put his horses to a gallop, and down
through the crowded traffic of whitehall
street they started On a race with death
TO the Grady Hospital. The big sorrels
dashed along at break-neck speed the am
bulance lurched and rocked and swayed
from side to side, but DIR. Quillian held
on, until his patient was laid out on the
operating table. and the emergency sur
geons were ready to perform their deli
cate operation.
In a playful tussle at Gwinn's shoe re-
pair shop, l66 Whitehall street, about 9
O'Clock Tuesday morning. James Lee, a
e-year-old negro delivery boy, became an
cry. and seizing a sharp, two-edged shoe
knife plunged it to the hilt in Edward
REYNOLDS. a white boy, 16 years old. The
1eft iugular vein was severed, and the
how Is In a dying condition at the Grady
hospital. There is only bare chance for
his recovery Lee was arrested ana sent
to police station.
Frank Manning, who runs the SHOP
and r. S. Williams, waiting to have his
shoes repaired, were witnesses. From
their accounts it appears that there was
no quarrel or fight, but merely tussle be-
tween the two boys. They were engaged
near the front door of the place, and
had not attracted particular attention I'M
I'll REYNOLDS uttered a groan and leaning
against the wall, exclaimed that he had
been cut When Manning and Williams
looked up the negro boy was about TO
make his escape. They stopped and held
him until a police officer arrived.
Meanwhile williams made a hurried ex-
animation of Reynolds wound, and per-
ceived at once that 1t was serious. He
ran to telephone nearby and summoned
the Grady ambulance. Then he ran
across the street to Dr. Hinton's resi-
dence, and the latter rendered what as
sistance he could until the ambulance
arrived, which was in very few min
utes.
DR.. Quillian, the ambulance surgeon,
quick to realize that unless he could
staunch the flow of blood from Reynolds
wound the boy would be dead before they
reached the hospital, caught UP the loose
ends of the big vein and held them in his
/ fingers, while the horses were tearing
along at break-neck speed and the ambu-
lance was swaying and jolting and
rounding corners, until his patient was
I placed on the operating table. A very
] delicate operation was found necessary,
| one that required the cutting away of
| considerable flesh and a section of the
vein and the splicing of the vein.
| Reynolds lost consciousness about the
! time the ambulance reached him, and did
not recover for several hours.
| When questioned by Patrolmen Barton
| and Dobbs, who made the arrest, as ia
why he had cut Rey nolds. Lee said this
1 "Mr. Manning told me to go to the
! Luckie street shop, and I said wouldn't
! do it. He said If I didn't he'd throw
talcum powder in my eyes, and he did
! Then the white boy pulled off my cap
and cut him. I was just playing, and
/ didn't mean to hurt him bad" Asked
/ his age at police station, the little negro
said years. But he appears to be g
year or so older. He claims to live ir
! Pittsburg.
1t is stated that Reynolds mother sells
pencils on the streets, and that his step
father, a blind man, also earns q living
! by that means.
| As soon as it was learned at Gwinn's
central shop that the boy had been Sc
riously cut, bicycle messenger was sent
out to search the city until he found
Reynolds mother and stepfather.
Strange to say. Manning. who runs the
little shop where Reynolds was cut. did
not know his name. He said he always
called him Banner Boy" as Reynolds
was employed to carry an advertising
sign through the streets on his shoulder.
Patrolman Dobbs eXerted every effort to
learn the boys name, in order to notify
his parents, and spent half an hour or
more in making inquiries before he final
lily secured any information.