Desperate Cutting Affray-1874

WAPLES, POOLE, WHITE, HATCHER

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 1/23/2018 at 21:53:22

Dubuque Daily Times, Tuesday, July 14, 1874, Dubuque, Iowa, Page: 4

ROW IN A BARBER SHOP

Desperate Cutting Affray

There was a desperate cutting affray in King Hatcher’s barber shop on Main Street between First and Jones Streets, last evening, which may result in the death of one of the parties. The parties to the affray was Wm. Poole and Charley White, both colored, and we understand, recent comers here. Poole who works at Bat. Arron’s shop, a block or too further up the street, dropped into Hatcher’s to see a friend, and while there engaged in a friendly scuffle with Arron’s brother, who accompanied him. Poole was ordered out of the shop by White, and refused to go. – Some warm words were ensued, and White pressed his order for Poole to leave. Poole drew a revolver and ordered White to “stand his distance,” and then put his revolver up. As soon as this was done, White rushed at him with a razor and inflicted several desperate gashes on the person of Poole, one cut reaching from the upper lip and circling around his chin to the windpipe, laying the bone bare, the lip and flesh of the chin hanging loose by a thread. There was another severe cut in the side of the face, and one in the upper muscle of the right arm, which reached to the bone, severing the cords of the arm. The head was also severely gashed in one or two places, and there is a cut in the abdomen-a button saving the man from being disemboweled. The wounded man was conveyed to a house nearby, where he received the attention of Dr. Waples, county physician. White was arrested and placed in the calaboose. Poole, at a late hour last evening, was reported to be living in a very precarious condition.