Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-01-17 | Page 7 | Not a Safety Razor Used in Attack on Bankhead

NOT HOT A SAFETY RAZOR USED IN Ann ATTACK ON BANKHEAD Colored Mans Cheek Slit Open From Prom Forehead to Jaw Assailant Un Unknown Unknown Unknown known to the Police Folice With his left cheek chook lying Iring open from his forehead to the jaw another gash over tie the t e left eye and with blood over his face Nathan Bankhead colored staggered into police pollee headquarters last night announcing himself as the victim of an assault by a white man He was Immediately removed to the emergency hospital where v here Dr Steele dressed hIs nis wounds and later with his compan companions companIons ions lone the man left for Murray where he is employed In the plant of the Salt SaIt Lake Pressed Brick BrIc company The affair is 13 surrounded with some som mystery that cold not Be r e unraveled by bythe bythe bythe the police pollee last night and assailant is still at large and unknown According to tu Bankhead and three ne no negro negro gro companions the party was passing the doorway of No 15 Commercial street when the white man whom the th I negroes say looked like a dope fiend jumped out and began slashing at Bankhead with a razor inflicting the two wounds on the face Another story told to the police was that an altercation altercation altercation tion had arisen in the American houte hOULe and that the white man had run down the stairs At the street door he found the way blocked by b the negro and after him to get out ut of the way which the colored man refused to todo todo o odo do he pulled out the razor and began the attack The victim and his companions ill definite de description description description not or would not give a of the assailant but in a search the razor used In the cutting I ts S found by the police I