The Weekly Telegraph
Houston, Texas
11 September, 1860

DESPERATE CUTTING AFFRAY – two men fatally stabbed. – On Sunday afternoon the 2d inst., two men, one named James Gilleland, but better known as “little Irish Jimmy,” and the other Dougherty, met at Vauxhall Garden, a place of resort for the followers of King Cambrinus. Drinking lager was a dull and rather expensive amusement, and as both had the organs of combativeness and destructiveness highly developed, and moreover having a small difficulty of two months standing to settle they resolved on having a wee bit of a row. Jimmy received a visit from a wandering lager beer tumbler in the neighborhood of the right eye, and rightly conjecturing that his friend Dougherty had launched the aforesaid tumbler on its errand of destruction returned the favor in kind. Dougherty was about repeating his kindness when Jimmy drew a formidable looking bowie knife and ripped open the abdomen of his opponent, who then seized Jimmy flung him to the floor, and wresting his knife from him gave him a fatal stab wound in the side. – Neither can possibly live. Rumor this morning says Jimmy is dead, however, that may be they have in all probability fought their last fight, as the wounds of each are two[sic] serious to admit of any reasonable hope of recovery.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012