IT WASN'T A MURDER.
Everybody was hard at work in News-paper-row in Camp Wikoff when the sound of an altercation made itself heard near the end of the row. Those concerned were, by the tones of their voices, coloured men. " Whad yo' tryin' to <lo wif dat razzer ? " cried the first voice, in earnest remonstrance. " Keep yo' mouf shet. I'll show yo' what," retorted the second. " Look out. now, eain' yo' ? Yo' done gettin' too careless. " I'll fix yo' all right." " Ow-w-w ! Yo' gash me den ! * " Shet yo' mouf, yo' There was a strangled cry, followed by a hideous gurgling, and the newspaper men, dropping their pens and pencils, rushed out of their abodes in horrified expectancy of finding a murder in progress. Instead they beheld, in an improvised barber chair made of two boxes, one of the signal corps teamsters being shaved by an amateur barber. There was a fleck of blood on the face of the subject,and his mouth was full of lather, which he gurglingly spluttered and spat forth. " Tol' yo' to keep yo' mouf shet," said the barber. Then he went on shaving and News-paper-row returned to its work.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2479, 21 August 1903, Page 6
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