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The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], Extraordinary Waling feat. (search)
Stabbing. --An Italian named Jas. Azibeau, while under the influence of liquor, stabbed an old man, named John Lewis, in the back, on Thursday evening last, in the house of Philip Davoto, on Main, between 23d and 24th streets. The wound was inflicted with a shoe-knife, and is not of a dangerous character. Azibeau was subsequently arrested by watchman Jas. H. Davis who also found the knife in the rear yard. Lewis deposed before the Mayor that the attack was made without provocation; that as. H. Davis who also found the knife in the rear yard. Lewis deposed before the Mayor that the attack was made without provocation; that he was setting quietly in Davoto's house, when Azibeau entered, and after making violent threats, thrust the knife into his back, when, being in great fear, he took refuge in the cellar, where Mrs. Giovanni Davoto found him. The Mayor remanded the accused, and the witnesses were recognized to appear at the Hustings Court on the second Monday in this month.