Criminal: James H. Hampton, Ruth Ollie Mae Wilson, 1946, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 29, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise or Winnfield News-American

Stabbed In Heart, Negro Lives; Local Negress is Jailed

Still with amazing strength a stab wound in the heart, which physicians say is
almost always fatal, James M. Hampton, 27 year old Negro victim of a Winnfield
cutting spree, is reported doing well in the Veterans' Hospital in Alexandria.

Ruth Ollie Mae Wilson, Winnfield Negress, was arrested Sunday at the Veterans'
Hospital by State Troopers C. G. Lambert and Truett Sledge, was charged with
the stabbing and was brought to Winn Parish jail here by Dy. Sheriff Douglas
Durrett of Winnfield, according to state police records.  Records here listed
Hampton as a resident of Birmingham, Ala.

Hampton was stabbed about 6 p.m. Saturday in Winnfield with a five and a half
inch jack knife.  The weapon went into the chamber of the heart, completely
penetrating the wall in a long gash.

The former serviceman was unconscious when he arrived at Alexandria.  At 8
p.m. four stitches were taken in the ventricle.  The surgeon used catgut so
that in about 12 to 20 days the stitches will be absorbed by the tissues.

Doctors commented that the wound was a very rare type.  Most heart wounds,
they said, are in the lower part of the heart and patients recover from only a
few that penetrate past the outer wall of the upper section of the ventricle.

Usually, they said, such a wound proves fatal before the patient reaches the
hospital.  In this case the man had lost considerable quantities of blood, but
Monday his temperature and pulse were normal and his condition was considered
quite satisfactory, with no complications expected to impede his recovery.