From Rick B
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
"The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, October 14, 1899, page 5
BOY STABBED IN THE BACK.
Andrew Tott, a Hungarian, Held by the Police on a Serious Charge.
Andrew Tott, a Hungarian, 45 years of age, is in the custody of the police and a
serious charge has been lodged against him.
Tott has been several times arraigned in the police court on a charge of intoxication
and it was his appetite for liquor that got him into this last trouble. Last Friday night
he went into the shoe shop of H. Miller on North Michigan street and asked to have his
shoes repaired. Miller and his assistant, Will Funk, a boy 18 years of age, saw that the
man was drunk and politely refused to do his work, telling him he had no money. This
accusation was too much for Tott and he took out his poket book and emptied its contents
to show that he was not a pauper.
While exhibiting the money Tott dropped a coin on the floor and Miller found it for
him. Tott was not satisfied with the size of his pile and insisted that either Miller or
Funk had picked up some of the money. Both denied the accusation and Miller started for
home leaving the boy in charge of the shop. Tott followed him south on Michigan street to
the Grand Trunk railroad and then turned back. He went again to the shoe shop and finding
the Funk boy alone made another demand for his money. The boy protested that he did not
have it, whereupon Tott, it is alleged, set upon the boy with a knife and stabbed him once
in the back. Tott then ran from the shop and down an alley across the street. August
Prast, who has an office near the shop, was a witness to the affray and gave chase. Tott
ran to the north and south alley between Colfax avenue and Water street and turned south.
Prast was close at his heels and while passing the police station called for help. The
off!
icers were preparing for roll call and 15 of them ran out the front door and joined in
the chase. Tott was captured in Printing House row and taken back to the station.
The wound inflicted on the Funk boy is not serious. The knife penetrated to a depth
of about one inch. The boy is a resident of Brazil, Ind., and came here last April. Tott
will be taken into the circuit court on information.
Tott was later arraigned, pleaded not guilty and was bound over to the circuit
court.
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