Reports received by The Tribune late Saturday afternoon from No. 9 Township told of another case of the eternal triangle, this one being between members of the colored race. The triangle consisted of John Miller, Will Forrest and Forrest’s wife.
As a result of the alternation between Miller and Forest, who had words relative to Miller’s alleged attentions paid to Forrest’s wife, Forrest was badly cut about the head, face and back, the instrument used being that favorite weapon of the colored race, to-wit, a razor.
Miller was accused, it is said, of intimacy with the wife of Forrest. There was considerably ill feeling between the two men. On Saturday morning about 8 o’clock, Forrest started to Mt. Pleasant and while waiting at the crossroads for the bus which was to take him to that place, was accosted by Miller who asked him to come to his (Miller’s) house which was nearby.
Forrest answered Miller by saying that he had no business there and that if Miller wanted to see him to come there. Miller did and subsequently ne word led to another until finally Miller drew a razor and began slashing indiscriminately. He cut Forrest badly on the head and neck, gashed his cheek and slashed his back. Immediately after the quarrel, iller left for parts unknown and has not been heard from since.
Forrest, who was bleeding profusely, tried to get a doctor from Mt. Pleasant and being unable, had neighbors bring him to Concord where he received medical attention. Dr. Joe A. Hartsell, who sewed the necessary stitches, said that it was almost miraculous that Forrest was not killed. The gash on his head started at the top of his skull, laid the flesh open to the bone, then in descending merely touched the temple and cut deeply into the cheek. Had the razor cut the temple at all, according to Dr. Hartsell, it would have opened the temple vein which would have resulted in Forrest’s bleeding to death before he could have gotten to a doctor.
Residents of the No. 9 township state that Forrest is a very quiet, hardworking, peaceful negro. His reputation is very good. Miller, on the other hand, has none too good a reputation.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 23, 1925
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