Putnam patriot., 1917-10-12
RAILROAD MAN
 STABBED TWICE
Sydney Stynhnrst Receives Cut Over Hearti Another in Thigh Jealousy Over Woman Alleged to be Cause of
 Trouble
Louis DefIoures Claims tie Acted In Self
 Defense
One Witness Sent t0 Jail For Drunken
 ness


 eleven o'clock Friday night, with a
 stab wound two inches long In his left
 breast and another cut several inches
 long that severed several cords and muscles in bis left thigh Louis De
 houfes of Putnam, employed ss 4 team
 ster by the Wheaton Building Lum-
 ber Com par y, was arrested on charge
 Of assault nnd Is now in Brooklyn Jail
 awaiting appearance in the city court, 1 Friday, October 26th, ia default of A
 bond of 2,000.
 Dr. $. B. Overlook, hospital surgeon, 1 told the officials, Saturday morning,
 that Stynhurst would probably be able
 to be out in two weeks unless eomph.
 cations set lin. The doctor said that 1 had the wound in the breast extended
 a half inch deeper the man would
 have died instantly, as the weapon would have pierced his heart. He also
 said that had the man not received at 1 tention at the time he did he would 1 probably have bled to death, as he was
 very week from loss of blood.
 Def1oures was arrested shortly after
 by policeman Rosario Mayotte, who 1 found him hiding in cellar. lie was
 arfaigned in the city court Saturday
 morning on technical charge of as' assault. When asked what his .plea
 was he said ..I can't think how you say if. He came for me-
 "You mean self defence?7 asked the
 prosecutor, and Defioures nodded his head. A plea ,of not guilty was en- tered and continuance of three weeks was asked for. The bond was fixed at 5000, and not being nble to furnish it Detioures was taken to jail.
 According to the police the affair started in hotel and ended in front of the monument shop on South Main street. As they have learned the story Defioures, Mrs. Walter Bates, with whom he boarded, and Mrs. John Perry were in the hotel having some drinks. Stynhurst, who has been run ming on freight that makes up in Putnam, and has been sleeping in the caboose during the short time he has been here, went to the hotel to see his conductor, and also to see about get. ting a room for himself. He passed the door where the party were and they called him in. It is said that
 Mrs. Bates showed him some atten. tions which Defoures resented, and | after some words with the woman he struck her. Stynhurst told Detioures that that was no way to treat woman
 and Dehoures then struck at him. Mrs Perry stepped between them land received the blow
 This, it is said, broke up the party and Stynhurst left. Mrs. Perry fol- lowed him and as he was about to go into the bar room she told him he had
 better go away as Defioures was an
 Italian and hot blooded. Just at that time Defoures followed. No sooner had Defloures reached them, the Perry
 woman says, than he made lunge at Stynhurst with both hands She says she did not see what he had in his hands.
 The clerk in the hotel says that he had stepped outside to get breath of air and see what the weather was. He heard a scream and another man came running by him. He followed the | man into an alley but he had dis | appeared He says the stsbbing oc' cured near the marble shop. The ambulance was summoned and
 the police informed of the affair. Styn- hurst was rushed to the hospital, and | Officer Mayolte started on hunt for Detloures.
 The officer learned thnt Dehoures
 was seen going into the basement of the Bates home on Buck street. lie opened the door and with revolver drawn threw his flash light about and saw DetioureS erouched in the corner. He went in and placed him under ar' rest.
 Detioures made no resistance but DtOhS uOWu anu CitSu. iiS Wos toaNb to the police station and locked up.
 The police say he told them he threw
 away 6 knife as he ran but they were
 unable to find it.
 Another climax to the affair was
 that one of the party, the Perry wo-
 man, is now in jail for 50 days. She
 was arrested about four o'clock Satur ! day morning at her home on Farrows
 street on complaint of her husband,
 who appeared in court against her. Perry said that his wife was in the
 habit of staying out nights. When she did not come home at l2.So Satnr- day morning he went to bed. About | four o'clock he heard her al the door. "She could stay out all night so l thought she could stay out all day, l said Perry. Mrs. Perry had no inten- l ton of staying ,out, for, according To 1 her husband, she went to the wood. shed. procured an axe and smashed in 1 a window He sent for the police. Frank Evans, neighoor, Id he heard the noise of breaking glas 5.
 Mrs. Perry said that she was not in toxieated' Alter the affair tmeaning the stabhing4, she said she went to l friends home and played cards. When
 she got home her husband wouldn't