The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-04-10
STRANGER CUTS
AND ! RODS |! B . MAN. |I
FR0MIGRAFlllN|
CHARLES ANDREWS, ACT ccoRDlNes
TO HIS STATEMENT, HEFRlENpsI [
iNTERLoPER WHO ATTACKS !
HIM WITH RAZOR AS He rs! TAX.
ING HIM TO HIM iRoo oki. VI 81
THUG IS Still GITYI
POLICE SAY 3AssAiLANT MADE
CLEAN GETAWAY 4 INN EDiATE.
LYAFTER CRIME. .WHlLESEocAt.
MAN SAYS HE WAS TAEKiNGt
WITH HIM LAST EvENi q

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Suffering with ali almost severed
ear a tlve.inch cut down the face, a.
number OF minor cuts about the neck
and his left hand badly cut, are tns
many wounds received Saturday snort.
ly before midnight by Charles AM;
drews, a railroader. who ~ says his
home Is at Grafton, and who was att
tackled with razon by an unknown
man on lower Madison street and who.
took from him pockets about SIX dol
lars after cutting him up. Ky
Andrews was rushed to the Miners
Hospital where his many wounds were
closed and he Is now able 70 he about,
assisting the policei n attempting to
locate the man. ~ y; VI
According to the storyStold ty AM
drews TO the police Is thai. he and the
stranger were drinking Id several tsa9l
looms Saturday: evening and that the
man asked him for the price; OF iuncss.s
which he gave him and thenStlieysh had
several more drinks togethe err leaving
the. saloon at eleven o. clock and an
the stranger said he had mo place to-
sleep he told him. jthathcS could share
his bed at. his roomlrgs house I'M the
First ward and when tiieYI cached "a
dark spot aR MSrgati own Avenue tlie i
stranger attacked Hin, cut ling him
about the face. hands and neck 1 and !
asshesS Sfell to the I ground he went
through his ckets taklng all his mon.
.eyi sis dollars, aud them made d shlrs
rieds getaway. ;ss 4 !,
" AS stated, Andrews was taken I stosI
the hospital and the police simmed ediate.s
lynotihed, Pbut according TO the statesi
'ment given out by the Eanthoritle lesS.itIi
is believed that. the ann INN medint telyS
left the city and Is nov! far from FAILS
mont. All Yesterday b. 4, Oi Chief De-
tective Selyey and his men sof this
vicinity searched Z for the man and
word was sent all along the line east
and west of here to be on the lookout
for the robber. A good description OF 3
the man was given to the police here
by Andrews which; has been sent TO.
Wheeling and other 9 cities. 4 He Is
about 40 years old, stoutly built and ]
weighing about 140 pounds, !; poorly
dressed, wearing cap ! I and black
.tOtHes. lHe Siedltsti dlu 10 lne1 Hu-t,
thorities in experimenting him VIII be
that he has very sore eyes. thes left
optic Is In very bad shape and Il ap-s,
peared that he could see little out of
1t. S. q Z Ell III
Contrary to the statement given out
by the police that them an made his Z
getaway Immediately after commit
ting the crime, a Well.known local man
stated this morning that he was talk s
Ing with the man late last evening and
that he told him that he did cut Ans
drews but did not take any money
from him; that Andrews first attack.
ed him and in self defense he turned
on him with a sharp knife and that
the man said that he was not going 10 Y
leave town for, a few days and az Sar.s
rested that he could show that he did 1
no wrong in cutting Andrews under
the circumstances. The man said sheg
is stranger in this Vicinity and has
only been In this part Of the country
a few weeks. Z Z