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Show LKJ STABBING AFFAIR ID KICK DO! William McGuire. a laborer, 37 years old, is being held at the city jail without a charge against him, while the police are trying to locate two young men whom he is alleged to have stabbed with a pocket knife McGuire was captured last night by lex Fife and a man named Law Mr Fife's story of the affair is as fol -low s. "I had Just come out of the Demo cratic headquarters on Hudson avenue ave-nue and Twenty-fourth street when 1 was approached by a man and asked for monev He had one arm crooked and was holding the hand with his other hand, appearing as though crippled. crip-pled. I did not give him anything and he walked eastward on Twenty-fourth street to where a couple of young fellows were sitting on the Iron railing fence of the business houses on the north side of the street, and made a similar request from them One of the boys took hold of the crooked arm and pulled It out full length several times, remarking as he did so, 'You're not crippled.' ! ibseved that the man drew his arm away and said something to the boys whereupon one of them struck him on the nose, The companion of the boy who hit the supposed cripple immediately imme-diately grabbed him and started to take him down the street to prevent a fight. It looked to me as though both boys had been drinking. When the youths bad gone a few feet one of them reached In his pocket and , r g pulled out a pint whisky flask which he threw at the cripple, missing his head by only a few inches. The cripple crip-ple then started toward the boys pulling a knife from his back pocket a6 he did so and when near them one of them kicked him with his foot in an effort to keep him out of reach. They shifted around a few seconds and the man with the knife struck at one of the boys, but barely missed him. They then clinched and I saw the man with the knife strike ono of the boys on the arm and the other in the body. The one who was hit in the body fell to the ground, got up again, but fell again and appeared to be badly injured. "When the man had swung the knife the third time one of the boys struck him in the face and knocked him to the ground and while he lay prone the other youth kicked him a hard blow in the face The whole affair occupied only th space of a milfute or so and I reached the s-cn' just as the cripple had evidently been rendered unconscious by the kick Upon seeing the man on the ground both boys ran at full speed up the street I could plainly see that one had a cut on his left cheek, but could not tell what other Injuries they had ' At the police station the man gave his name as William McGuire and age as 17. When searched the officers offi-cers found a knife, evidently the one which had been used. It was a vicious vi-cious looking weapon with a blade about four inches long and a long curved bone handle A cap belonging to one of the boys in the affair was found in tho road and taken to the station. |