The Evening Critic

Probably Fatal Quarrel,
A Man at the Fair Grounds Fatally Wounded with a Pitchfork.

A quarrel occurred early this morning at the Fair grounds, in the stables of ex-Gov. Bowie, of Maryland, which proved a very serious matter. "Duff" Roane, a mulatto, 20 years of age, a groom employed by Gov. Bowie, had a fight with Henry Brown, another colored man employed in the stables, when Brown, after being beaten by Roane, seized a pitchfork and gave his antagonist three horrible wounds on the head. At the last thrust one prong of the pitchfork penetrated the eye of Roane, and went in to the depth of over an inch. The police ambulance was sent to the grounds, and the wounded man was removed in a senseless and, it was thought, dying condition to the Freedmen's Hospital. Brown was arrested and is held at the Second Precinct station.

At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon Dr. Purvis said that the wounded man was still insensible, and was apparently suffering from a concussion, caused by a blow from a heavy club, as well as from three separate stabs, one of which was on the right cheek, one on the right shoulder, and another on the back of the head. The man's eyes had not been damaged, he thought, by the pitchfork, as reported. The Doctor stated he could do very little until the man recovered sensibility, but that he thought the chances for his recovery were exceedingly small.