Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-26
RAZOR IN HAND
WOUNDS PARTNER
MONEY SoUABBLE ENDS WITH
BLOODY AFFRAY
WOMEN YELL FOR HELP WHILE
MEN STRUGGLE FuRpUsLY
Fight Alleged to Have Followed Bitter
Alteration Over Money Wrung
by Threats of Exposing
lndiscretions

In the presence of two young mar
ried women, who screamed in terror
and rushed from the place as soon as
they could get away. Harry Radigan,
26 years old, an advertising solicitor,
was slashed on the left cheek, the left
wrist and right arm with razor
welded by Walter Moran, in the room
occupied by the two men at S15 West
Eighth street, last night. The fight,
according to the police, was the result
of an alteration over the division of
money alleged to have been obtained
from the women under threats to tell
their husbands, who are absent from
the city, of certain questionable ac-
lions.
Radigan, bleeding profusely from his
wounds, was discovered by occupants
of the house, who rushed in on hearing
the women's screams. The police were
notified and Detectives Jones and Boyd
were sent to the place. They arrived
simultaneously with Patrolman Rose,
who was met by the women as they
rushed from the house, and they were
told that a man had been cut severely.
When the officers arrived Moran had
disappeared. Radigan was taken to
the receiving hospital where Police
Surgeon Wiley put stitches in deep
five-inch laceration of the left cheek,
a deep cut on the left wrist and a lac
Grafton of the upper right arm.
Jones and Boyd remained at the
room, and shortly afterward Moran APP
peared to get his belongings and was
placed under arrest. He is booked on a
charge of assault with a deadly weap-
on. Both he and Radigan had been
drinking.
When seen in the receiving hospital
after his wounds had been dressed
Radigan was at first unable, because
of his condition, to give a connected
account of the affair, but stated that
the trouble was the result of an argu-
ment. Later Radigan, as if talking to
himself, remarked IF it had not been
for that trouble 1 would have had $3.50
or 5000 by tomorrow night"
Refuses to Give Names
Radigan stated that he and Moran
had met the women short time ago.
He refused to give their names, but did
not deny that they are married women
and that their husbands are not in the
city.
He said he reached his room late in
the afternoon and found the women
and Moran there. Shortly after his ar
rival a discussion arose, and Moran
seized a razor lying on a dresser and
attacked him. Radigan attempted to
QefenQ himself, ana one Oh tne WOIIlely
who, it is said, threw herself in front
of the angered man in an effort to
save Radigan from injury, was hurled
to one side.
When the women saw that Radigan
probably would be seriously injured
they screamed at the top of their
voices, and when they saw the razor
flash in the dim light of the room and
descend on the young mans face they
rushed madly from the room.
The officers working on the case re-
fuse to give out any of the details.
but practically admit that the quarrel
arose over a blackmail scheme to ex-
tort money.
One of the men is said to have told
the women that unless they paid a GER
tain sum their husbands would be noti-
fed of their actions. The women,
whose names the police will not divulge
until the case is thoroughly investi-
gated, are said to have become fright
ened and were attempting to arrange
terms, when the discussion arose that
terminated in the cutting.
Radigan occupies cot in the receiv-
ing hospital and will be held pending
further investigation by the detectives.
He came to California a short time ago
from Chicago. where he is said to be
we'll connected.