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SERIOUSLY CUT.Alex Uodwin Almost Fatallyt • ICut In a Bar Room.1s8nThere waB quite a serious cutting. _ * •aflair in Ivelly’s bar room on Jackson•• •street yesterday afternoon, in Alex Godwin, a citizen of Cairo, was almost fatally cut by Bob Wethering-ton. 'The only person that saw the cutting was a young man from Chattahoochee, Willie Sykes, He says he jfl( thought the parlies were playing and q| that although he was standing within co a few feet of them he was not aware’Iti t of the fact that there was any trouble | ro until he saw the blood flying fro; Godwin’s wounds. Both men were|t*lc 01 drinking and had been together a good deal • duriug the afternoon, e They, were friendly - ami had been o fcussteiug in ihe back room of the store. Just before the cutting they took a drink together. Godwinis a very large man, weighing probably over two hundred pouads^and | pC when drinking is given to boasting of 56 his manhood. The. witness says that | Vj f- Godwin was in Jbis boasting humor* - t 4 * ,. 0 , / . T .and laid his band on Wetherington’s j [shoulder.. Wetherington told him to, stop or l e would hurt him. The next thing the witness saw was the blocd. ’Wetherington walked outthe front door and down to Davis*■ *stables. Godwin went out the' back\ _door , and then to Dr, McIntosh’s office,bleeding profusely all the time. When his clothing was removed it was fouhd that he was severely cut in a number of p'uces. Hi3 left armWas split to the bone from the shout*0 •der to the elbow,the flesh laying apart in a most ghastly manner. There was an ugly gash on the left cheek sey.eral inches long and a dangerous% * x » • 'looking. stab. in ; the left side of the | neck, ' There was also a slight cut inthe breast. Dr. McIntosh dressed* . . ^% t • ,the wounds and pronounced them not necessarily fatal. VWethington stopped in , DavU*.stables and wheu the offict rs. passed the door looking, lot' him ' he ^cameout'and gave himse f up,Tiie reporter saw him a few minutes afterward.-*. Ilis hand was covered with blood, but he seemed Copland s )ber. In. response to in-* i • , 'quiries made by the reporter he stated that what he did was in self defense.,4 s ’•Wetherington is quite a small manand he claims that Godwin cursed•* ^ fhim and told him he was going to beat him, at the same time shoving him up in a corner and drawing hisdls:it*e•tNnritnlersgi-mr-orhand back threateningly; Just atfchisjuucture Wetherington drew his» * *knife and commenced cutting. SheriffIdto2SDoss locked Wetherington up in jail. Godwin was able to be carried to his home iu Cairo last night.
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Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Tue, Jun 27, 1893
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