William Rogers assaults James Mc Elligot

Fight at the wharf

Fight at the wharf – white men tried to get work off the colored men – General fight – The statement of the officer is that the white men started the fight cut and slashed deponent in back of body, in the neck, and in the index finger of the left hand with a sharp and dangerous weapon – a sailors knife – all which resulting in three wounds in the said regions, the wound in the back requiring 13 stitches, one stitch in the neck – in the hands of the doctor in the French Hospital. – James Elliot(deponent) now in prison -