The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-10-14
CUT UP A WHITE MAN

His Knife F~'erociously on a
White Man.
There was a bad cutting ARRAY on
the Milwaukee passenger train which
went south Saturday night at 1920
o'clock in which a colored man by
the name of William Wallace and %.
H. Stetzer were the interested part
les.
Wallace has been confined in the
county jail for the past ten days on
the charge of an assault of an officer.
the charge being made light under
the circumstances. Saturday night
Wallace's time was out and he was
turned loose from the Jail at z o'clock
and it was the intention of the Off
GERS to get him out of town that night
before he got into any more trouble.
They got him on the train all right
and there vas where the trouble
started again. During the evening
Wallace drank a quantity of intoxi-
eating liquors and by 1 o'clock in
the morning he vas in anything but
an amiable frame of mind.
When the passenger pulled in from
the north Wallace got on the smok-
er and Immediately fell into con-
v%ersation with several parties, whom
he insisted on telling of his Jail ex-
%periences in this city. One of the men.
d. H. Stetzer, told the coon to keep
quiet that they did not want to hear
his troubles. but the coon insisted
and kept on talking. That seemed
to anger StetZer and he made an at
tack on Wallace, giving him a severe
drubbing. The coon wanted revenge
and he made an attack on Stetzer
with an open knife, and when the
weapon was drawn and the attack
made the crowd in the car made a
rush for the doors and in a short
time it was emptied, except the two
combatants, They returned, how
ever, in a moment and the fight was
ended, but not until Stetzer shed
much of his blood and the coon was
cut across the hand.
Wallace succeeded in cutting Stat
ger in six places, and one of them
very severe, the wound going
down through the abdominal wall
and nearly piercing the stomach. A
second wound was under his left
arm and nearly touched his lungs,
and a third wound of a serious ma
ture across .he left shoulder. the
knife going clear to the bone. The
other three wounds we're on the neck
and arms and were not very bad.
Wallace had his arms around Stet-
zer's neck and it was the SUPPOSE
ton that he was trying to slash his
throat, but in missing the stroke the
cut his WI hand quite badly.
After the cutting the coon escap-
ed from the car and Officers Patter-
son and Spence caught him a short
distance from the car, it requiring
the use of a revolver to make him
yield to arrest. He was placed in
Jail once more.
Stetzer's condition seemed to be
quite serious, as the blood was flow
ing from the several wounds on his
body. DR.. Ball, the Milwaukee's ply
was sent for and he had the
man taken out to the hospital, and
there dressed his wounds. Sunday
morning the case was turned over to
the county's physician, DR.. Warne.
Stetzer stated that his home was
in Philadelphia and that for the past
three or four months he had been
working on a farm in the vicinity of
Claremont. He was on his way to
Sioux City and from there was 60
ing to hunt up a job of husking corn.
.tetzer is about % years old. 1t was
evident that he had been drinking
to some extent on the way down
from Aberdeen. He did not have
much money on his person.
Wallace Bound Over.
Monday Wallace was brought
Justice Markham on the
charge Of an assault with a deadly
weapon in the attempt to kill. He
examination and was bound
to the term of circuit court in
in bonds of 5000, which
be failed to give and was again plac-
ed in jail.