His Skull Not Fractured
Item
- Title
- His Skull Not Fractured
- Date
- 17-Mar-00
- page
- 9
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020358/1900-03-17/ed-1/?sp=9&q=assault&r=0.532,1.081,0.19,0.21,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- saloon; fight
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- alleged colored victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrested
- Location
- In State; Bridgeport
- Length of story
- 87
- Description
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HIS SKULL NOT FRACTURED.
Bridgeport, March 16. William Ber
ry, the colored man injured in Sheri
dan's saloon yesterday, is much Im
proved to-day. It -was thought yester
day he. had sustained a fracture of the
skull, but it proves to be simply a scalp
wound. Matthew Reynolds, the bar
tender, is held in bonds of $50 to answer
the charge of assault in the city court
to-morrow morning. Reynolds claims
he struck Berry with his fist and the cut
was caused by contact with a chair.
