Knife Duel Near Pacific Avenue
A late-night confrontation at 14th and Pacific Avenue ended in a stabbing, with one man arrested and the other hospitalized.
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Harry Collins lies in a cell at the city jail, and John Conlin occupies a ward at the Fannie Paddock hospital with his head badly cut as the result of a duel with knives which occurred at 2 o'clock this morning near Fourteenth and Pacific avenue. Collins had inflicted several severe scalp wounds on Conlin before Officers Brady and Aosus, who hurried to the scene, could drag them apart. The ambulance took Conlin to the hospital and Collins was hurried to the jail. He will be arraigned late this afternoon on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Neither of the men would talk of the affair this morning except to say that there was a woman in the case.
“Neither of the men would talk of the affair this morning except to say that there was a woman in the case.”
Pacific Avenue was the city's commercial and social heart, and the proximity of the Fannie Paddock hospital (a precursor to Tacoma General) highlights how the city's central district functioned as both a bustling corridor and a site of volatile social friction.
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