Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Police Looking for Meta Waters, Who Stabbed Charles Evans and Lillie Belle Jenkins, Dec. 27, 1921

Negro Seriously Cut by Woman Last Night

Charles Evans and Lillie Belle Jenkins, negroes, were carried to the James Walker Memorial Hospital last night suffering from knife wounds said ot have been inflicted by Meta Waters, another negro, for whom the police were searching, but who had not been arrested at 1 o’clock this morning.

It is said that Evans and the Jenkins woman were in a room at 1213 North Tenth street when the Waters woman entered, and after an argument began the knife play. Evans was said to have been stabbed in the left breast and other parts of the body, while the Jenkins woman was cut about the neck and face. Her injuries are not thought to be serious whole those of Evans may turn out that way.

Sergeant W.C. Moore and Officers Grey, Burton and Spooner are in charge of the case, it was announced last night.

From the Wilmington Morning Star, Dec. 28, 1921

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