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A Stab in the Dark
Louis Wagner Severely Cut by a Passing Stranger
On Wednesday between 9 and 10 o’clock Louis Wagner and two companions, Joseph and Peter Gibson, were walking on Muir street, nearly opposite Tanner’s mills, when a passing stranger struck Mr. Wagner in the left breast and passed out of sight in darkness. “That fellow gave me a pretty hard clip,” said Wagner, but nothing was thought of it for a few moments until Wagner felt something trickling down his body-it was blood. “I’ve been stabbed!” said he. He hurried along to Dr. Schooley’s office, and the wound was quickly dressed and Wagner ordered to take his bed, his temperature marking 102½. The stab was directly above his left nipple and dangerously close to his heart. The knife must have been pointed and with an edge like a razor, for it penetrated Wagner’s vest, heavy shirt, and a package of letters containing thirty thicknesses of paper. The paper undoubtedly saved Wagner’s life.
The attempted assassination has caused a sensation, as Wagner is a man who is supposed to have no enemies, and the affair occurred while many were still on the streets.
Dr. Schooley says the wound is a dangerous one, but if no complications set in Wagner will no doubt recover.
Rumors were current yesterday noon that the would-be assassin was located, but we have no confirmation of this.
No effort, as far as we can learn, has been made to capture the perpetrator of the crime.
Welland Tribune
22 June 1894
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