| Show A CUTTING AFFRAY DICK LEIS COLORED SLASHED I I IX THE XECIC The Row Occurred In a Brothel Near Commercial Street Lit Xight I A cutting affray occurred in i a brothel near Commercial street last night in i which Dick Lewis the colored porter had hit carotid artery nearly severed and experienced a close call to bleeding I to death The details of the scrape i was impossible to learn as the keeper of the house Kittle Fairchild and the I inmates would tell nothing beyond saying say-ing that a party of young fellows were i in the dancing room and one started t nln n hl Pi nntr n < < nt yin y-in to stop the proceeding and had an I alvercation with the men later following follow-ing them tothe corner of Second South and State where is was claimed the I fight occurred Statements however were very conflicting I con-flicting and a pool of blood on the dancing floor large enough to have drained most men to have lost f Irened the story of the cutting having occurred I oc-curred on the street The police are i of the opinion the facts are very much I at variance with the statements made They expect to locate the persons interested inter-ested today and learn the truth or some thincr nearer i Dr McKenna was called to the White House drag store where Lewis sought assistance and dressed the wound He pronounced Lewis out of danger |
