MULE BREAKS A LEG ON NEGRO'S HEAD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 10

MULE BREAKS A LEG ON NEGRO'S HEAD.

There must be something in the general belief that the hardness of skulls of the black race is far in excess of those of the Caucasian( says a Philadelphia paper). Following an altercation over a woman at a party given in the home of Henry Lewis, thirty-six years old, of No. 2402 North Alder street, Lewis, a negro was shot four times in the head at a range of less than oft. After penetrating the flesh the bullets flattened out and dropped to the- floor. Lewis was taken to the Samaritan Hospital, but was soon permitted to go to his home. The man who shot him escaped. AVhile harnesFing a mulo in a stable at No. 48 East Rottenhouse street, William Pifßn, a negro, thirty-tnree years of age, of the same address, was kicked in the head and knocked down. Getting, tor his feet, Piffin discovered the mule lying on the ground. Examination' showed that the animal's leg was broken. Piffcn was taken to the- Germantown Hospital, where six stitches were put in his head. The mule ivas shot.