The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
BIT OFF A FINGER.
j. L. Caster Mains G. g. Carter,
His Fat her, for Life.
Son and Parent Fight at a
Dance.
YOUNG MAN ARRESTED
Charge Will Be Made Only As
sault and Battery.
Family Has Bsen in Trouble
Previously.
DUNG MAN ARRESTED

Because he bit his fathers finger off
when the two men quarrelled at
dance, J. l. Carter was arrested today
on a state warrant charged with as
sault and battery The complaint was
sworn to by G. C. Carter, the young
man S father, who exhibited a section
and a halI of a missing niger to an
assistant in the county attorneys Of
fee.
Young Carter was intoxicated, the
father said, when he attended a dance
which his elder gave at the home, 1884
North Fillmore street Everything pro-
crossed nicely until young Carter want
ed to take charge of the ceremonies
He used loud and profane language
and insisted that he should boss the
lob To this the father objected. Then
the father and son engaged in fist
fight on the floor of the dance room.
1t was sometime in the course OF en-
counter that the elder Carriers finger
found its way to the son s mouth Just
three seconds later the father was
screaming in agony and begging Tor
mercy. With all the force at his COM
mand the sons sharp teeth closed IKE
a wise on the fathers finger and Car
ter senior kicked and yelled and pleaded
in his distress and suffering. The young
mans mother and sister took a hand
in the melee and added more to the
confusion than to the queling of the
Young T1OJ. NIuGSLS dI the QeAAASC LII
got the music and the fiddler laid down
his bow to join the crowd that watched
the elder Carters horrified antics.
Then young Carter suddenly stepped
back and spat something on the floor
of the dance hall. A guest picked up
the member and almost tainted as she
recognized the section and half OF
her hosts ring finger. Blood was
squirting from Carter's finger and the
wound was hastily dressed. When TINS
was done, young Carter had dlsap-
peared He was arrested early sun
day morning by Police officers Morgan
and J. Anderson.
There is a special statute which pro-
vides a punishment of from five to ten
years in the penitentiary for an action
such as Carter's, yet on account OF ms
condition at the time, the young man
will only be prosecuted on a charge Of
assault and battery
AS the elder Carter told his story
today, he calmly reached in his vest
pocket and held the missing section
ted to retain the souvenir, but the
severed member will be introduced in
evidence in the trial of the case
The attack of young Carter on mis-
father in his own home and III the
presence of his mother and sister is
one of the most brutal cases brought
to the attention of state officials in this
county in several months. The elder
Carter is about 60 years old, while the
son is about 80 years old.
1t was members of Carter's family
who several years ago were implicated
in a iaiI delivery in Shawnee county,
at which time several prisoners made
their escape, but were later captured
and returned. Someone had smuggled
a package of pepper to the prisoners;
and as Henry Bayless. the jailor, opened
the big iron door of the county prison,
young Carter threw the package of
pepper in the jailor's eyes. Carter and
several of his confederates escaped.