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The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
Stabbing affair. --A beetle-browed individual, named Benj. Read, was carried before the Mayor yesterday morning for feloneously cutting, stabbing, and wounding, William . J. Somerville, with intent to maim, disable, disfigure, and kill him. The affair occurred Tuesday night. Somerville first struck Read a blow with his fist, which the latter returned by ripping open his bowels with a knife and making some ugly gashes about the shoulder At this juncture Somerville fell from loss of blood, Somerville fell from loss of blood, and the watchmen making their appearance at the instant, carried Read to the lock up. A woman was at the bottom of the whole difficulty — a little piece of feminine mischief, called Mrs. Evans, was fancied by both parties. Read was the longest "lover," Somerville having been liberated from the penitentiary only some few months since. The latter feared Read would get the inside track of him and tried to scare him off, with the result above related. The woman who caused the muse fondled around