EVANS CITY — A 49-year-old man remains jailed on charges that he allegedly stabbed his nephew outside a borough bar earlier this week.

District Judge Lewis Stoughton on Wednesday arraigned William C. Matthews of Forward Township on felony assault and other charges.

Following arraignment, Matthews was placed in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail.

Police were called about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday to go to a Wahl Avenue home for a man reportedly stabbed. Officers got there and found 27-year-old Christopher Lee Matthews.

The younger Matthews was clutching his stomach, and his jeans were stained with blood, police said.

"I've been stabbed," he told officers, according to a police affidavit. He allegedly identified the defendant as the man who stabbed him.

Patrolman William Smolensky, the investigating officer, described the injury as a "deep puncture wound" as about one-inch wide.

Christopher Matthews, who smelled of alcohol, police said, told officers the stabbing occurred inside a friend's Jeep parked behind an East Main Street bar.

He admitted to officers, documents said, that he had assaulted the defendant about two hours earlier.

Following the stabbing, the alleged victim and his friend sought help at the Wahl Avenue home, where they had to pound on a back door to awaken an elderly couple who live there, police said

An ambulance took Christopher Matthews to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. His condition was not known this morning.

Meanwhile, officers assisted by police in Jackson and Adams townships, began looking for the suspect. Police eventually found him at a home on Marshall Alley in Evans City.

Police said Matthews appeared to be "very intoxicated" and had a swollen nose and forehead.

While being taken to the police station to be interviewed, Matthews claimed he "didn't mean to stab his nephew," the affidavit said.

Smolensky said the admission was made even before police began questioning the defendant.

When they got to the station, police said, Matthews began complaining of chest pain. He was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital.

He was examined and released, and at 4 a.m. Wednesday he was arraigned on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and disorderly conduct.

A preliminary hearing is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the office of District Judge Wayne Seibel.