A Stabbing Outside Mrs. Sullivan’s Saloon
A bartender and a longshoreman fought on Mill Street; one was carried to the hospital with a knife wound to the stomach, and the other was arrested with the bloody knife still in his possession.
Two men got into a fight in front of Mrs. Sullivan’s saloon on Mill Street last evening. The parties were Frank Bardie, a bartender, and John Nolan, a longshoreman. During the melee Frank Bardie was stabbed in the stomach and severely cut on the hand. He was sent to the hospital, and Nolan was found, covered with blood, with the bloody knife in his possession by Officer Lind, and locked up. It is thought Bardie’s wounds will prove fatal.
“He was sent to the hospital and Nolan was found, covered with blood, with the bloody knife in his possession.”
Saloon-front violence was a regular item in Seattle’s early papers, but this one left a man near death and another in jail. The Mill Street corridor—now Yesler Way—was part of the young city’s waterfront labor district, where logging, milling and maritime work mixed with drink and knives.
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