The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-02-03
Bill Fillmore Receives Dangerous
Cut with Knife Welded by
Sam House Heart Missed
by Narrow Margin
HAS FAIR CHANCE
FOR RECOVERY
Chief Danger Pneumonia = Injured
Man Bleeds PrOfuseIy-De-
tails of Affair Meagre
House Landed in Jail

A deep knife wound in the breast OF
Bin Fillmore. an Indian. inflicted with
a butcher knife in the hands Of Sam
House, a restaurant man, is the result
Of what is believed TO have been sim
Ply drunken row. Monday afternoon
LAT 5:l5, at the corner of Chickasha
avenue and First street.
At me Chiekasha hospital. where
the wounded man was taken, it was
stated az II o'clock this morning that
his chances for recovery We're fair,
the principal danger being from possi-
Bile pneumonia The knife severed a
main arlsry. and entered the lung. the
wound being three or four inches
deep.
Details ~ the affair are meagre. AS
to the actual cause Of the fight,
as House will not talk and Fillmore is
in no physical condition to talk. and
the incidents leading up to the stab
bing can only be surmised. Il is said
that Fillmore had been drinking and
that the two men had had some little
difficulty in the chilli joint belonging
10 House. just previous to the cutting
The loud talking of the two men, pune
tuated with curses now and then, at
tracted the attention OF passers-by
Fillmore was seen standing on the
sidewalk near the door of the chilli
joint. with House standing in the door
House told Fillmore to come on in. ="
Fillmore walked toward the door
There was practically AT that time no
scufile. but House was seen 10 strike
the Indian with something. Fillmore
staggered back. turned and started
west on Chickasha avenue. reeling
from side to side When some so feet
away from the spot blood began to
drip from the bottom of his trousers,
and off his coat, and from that point
to where he. afterward fell. his way
was marked in a trail OF blood
When almost Immediately in front
of Soils pawn shop. Fillmore stopped
tore open his shirt front, and said,
There's where he got me. showing
a blood soaked breast from a wound
in which the blood spurted and fell
upon the sidewalk Fillmore then
proceeded on his staggering, uncer-
tain way, across Second street Climb
ing upon the sidewalk again. he reeled
scme so feet further. where he caught
hold Of a telephone pole for support
and as he became weaker from the
loss OF blood, he gradually sank to the
pavement with one arm crooked
around the pole.
There the attendants of the ambu-
lance and physicians found him, sit
ting crumpled up with his clothing
soggy with blood and pool Of blood
under and around him, steadily grow
ing to larger dimensions. The prompt
and efficient actions of the physicians
and attendants are responsible for the
fact that Fillmore is alive today, for
had they been a mite slower in atten-
tions, his death would probably have
resulted from loss of blood.
There was but one wound on Fill
more body, not a cut. but a single stab
wound above the heart, and it was AZ
first thought that his heart had been
pierced by the knife. 1t was learned
by examination that the knife, driven
by a downward blow, had entered al
most Immediately over the heart, but
instead Of penetrating straight it, had
taken a downward course and had
missed the heart by a hairs breadth.
After the injured man had been
sewed up and the flow of blood
he seemed to revive some
and said. Say, Doc, I'm as good as two
or three dead Indians yet. amt II" He
was assured that such was the case.
Patrolman Reese was the first Of
ficer on the scene, closely followed by
Officer Ramsey. After the affair,
House left the place and went to his
home which is on First street, i'm