Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — NEGRO CUTS A POLITICIAN [ARTICLE]

NEGRO CUTS A POLITICIAN

Slashes County Leader's Throat From Ear to Ear With a Razor. Boonville, Ind., Aug. 6.—ln the midst of a row at a colored picnic at CountyLine park, James Brown, a Kentucky negro, cut and seriously wounded J. Wesley Irwin of Newburg, a Warrick county politician. Irwin’s throat w-as cut from ear to ear, the negro’s knife barely missing the jugular vein. Brown is under arrest in Owensboro, Ky., and will be brought back for trial.