Cut With a Razor
A Waiter Cuts the Throat of a Hotel Clerk
A wage dispute at a Cincinnati hotel ends in a razor attack on the chief clerk, a small but violent episode from the city's daily life.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readCINCINNATI, July 17.
Charles Robinson, a colored waiter at the Neil house, came into the hotel to draw his wages, and finding certain charges against him got into a dispute as to their being correct, with Stephen Dowthard, chief clerk of the house, and ended the discussion by drawing a razor and cutting a fearful but not fatal gash in Dowthard's throat. The wound extends from the lobe of the ear to the windpipe. Robinson has not been arrested.
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