Austin Weekly Statesman
Austin, Texas
21 February, 1889

BADLY CARVED UP.
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The Traditional Razor Used With
Bloody Effect.
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   Saturday on the C. M. Rogers place, a few miles below Webberville, a difficulty occurred between one Baird, foreman on the place, and a young man named Billie Gilleland, in which Baird was badly carved up with a razor.
   He was slashed in several places, and, bleeding profusely, it was feared at one time he would die.
   Sheriff White arrested Gilleland late Saturday night and brought him to the city Sunday and lodged him in jail.
   He will be sent to Bastrop, as the assault was in that county.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012