People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — Used a Dirk. [ARTICLE]

Used a Dirk.

Lexington, Ivy., Sept. 24. —1 n a sensational altercation with James Livingston, an Owens man, in the Phoenix hotel, Desha Breckinridge attempted to stab Livingston. Livingston, in a moment of desperation, reached for the glittering blade, which Breckinridge had aimed at his heart. The knife went between the second and third fingers of Livingston’s right hand, cutting the third finger to the bone. Desha seemed to desire no more blood and gave Livingston two hard kicks. The hotel clerk and several bystanders rushed in and seized Breckinridge, and at the same instant Matt Lane, a strong Breckinridge man, ran up and said he would take a hand in helping Desha. Two witnesses say that Lane also flourished a big knife, but Lane denies this. • Livingston was hurried into the wash-room, where his wounds were bathed, and he was then taken to the office of a physician, where his hand was dressed.