Misc: Fight Between Ike Williams & Arthur Ham, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: Colfax Chronicle July 21, 1888
Submitted to USGENWEB by: Gaytha Thompson




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Fight Between Ike Williams & Arthur Ham

In a family roe last Saturday night, Ike Williams had his head split open by
Arthur Ham, brother of Ike's wife.  The blow is said to have been inflected
with a carpenter's square or an old cane knife.  

Ike Williams has been lying in a critical condition, the doctors having to
extract a portion of his skull nearly two inches in extent to relive the
brain.  

The roe is said to be the result of a disagreement between Ike and his wife
who have been living separately for some times past.