, 1863-08-22
THE BR0WNING MURDER CASE.
Coroner's Inquest, Testimony, and
Verdict.
The Prisoner Committed upon tho
Charge Of Murder.


an inquest upon the body Of Richard Mllls,
who died at the residence Of his mother, No
&c Sherman St., on Thursday, and whose death
Is taid to have resulted from wound received
from colored man named Browning, On the
night Ct the 10th inst.
The testimony Of the Witnesses, upon
which tie verdict Was based, Was snb,tan-
tially as follows:
John c. Douxe-Am step father Of the de-
coased; Richard Mills, the boy, is fifteen
yesrs of age; was sometimes as1ione1y trou-
flcd With asthma, for which at times he had
medical treatment; was absent IRON home
when the hog was rounded.
John Donlan-The difficulty In question
occurred a week ago last Monday night,
about S O'Clock. Richard Miles was walking
with me; re came off from Van Buren, on t0
Sherman strict. We passed by whers cox
ored nan was standing. Some words passed
between them, but I did not know what was
said; did not know the colo.ed man. The
boy stepped behind me, and the next instant
heard him cry IT am cut" The colored
man ran away; followed, caught him and
would cut any ono who insulted him.
Join LauTrne<: I lire at boarding house,
No. Il Sherman street; Wa5 standing there,
and saw Donlan and the boy Miles walking
north on Sherman street; they stopped BY
the 1fonL .hlcs LIT afSSsei passEa Aes eoanE
Donlan; I asked the niger, "What's the
matters' he replied, " That son Of q BIB In
eulted me;'' I didn't know then whether he
meant DonIan or the boy; he first came to tho
boy, walked up to him, and stabbed the kutfs
ner in which the knife was held, and the place
where It entered the boy j the boy walked
few steps further, and cried ont, "Johnny,
johnny, he has cut me;" the nigger ran
azound the corner, on jackson street, and
fell down from stumbling. and was caught by
us, and we held him tn John Kelly, police
man, came and arrested him.
Officer Ee11y corroborated the statements
coucerning his arrest-he found him in tie
bands Of those men. The nigger showed
some resistance. ! asked him why he cut
that boy. He said the boy struck him, ard
be would cut anybody that struck him.
ieasi Ens with fn VICE Se tie oand was a inflicted
small-sized butcher knife.) The boy told me-
It wns The nigger TINT had cut him.
1oaph Na1TaY: reside ct 1882 South
Wells street; know TINT knife to be the one
carried By the darkey Browning; have seen
him passing along with it ia Ills hand several
times as he passed my saloon. HIVE seen
him often, and almost always with some
weapon In his hand.
Df. Wickereharn made post mortem ex-
animation, assisted By d.. Bartlett, These
Physicians gdte 1snob Se1p near51 o.
i've i've inches, - extending f from % tho
left hip bone obliquely upwards, making .
wound into the abdominal cavity of two
inches in width. a general statement Of the
case Was made, with the treatment Of the
patient from time to time. Dr.. Wickersham
stated the believed the direct cause OF bis
death was the result of the injury Inflicted
upon him, BY some pointed Instrument
The verdict BY the Coroner's jury Was as
follows: We, the undersigned, jurors Of
man street this 2ist day Of August, 1868. upon
the body Of Richard Mills, aged Is years, who
died about o'clock p. IN. on tho Goth inst,
do find as our verdict that the said Richard
Mills death WIS caused by wound inflicted
upon him by q knife in the hands Of negro
named Charles Wesley Bro .niDg, which was
inflicted on tho night Of August 10, 1868,
about o'clock p. m, on Sherman street, be-
tween Van Buren, aud jackson; and from the
evidence produced by Dr. Wickersham, aud
also from witnesses who had seen the act,
We, the nndersisned jurors, find the said
Charles Wesley Browning guilty Of Wllfal
murder. tsignea.l G. E. Shaw, Foreman; !;
F. n. Done1lan. Jno. D. O'Neill, Nathaniel
Beaushmer, l.. Summer6eld, John Have, 4
Ellis, A. Heller. G. Deber, r. Kennedy, Jos.
Whce, and Anton Berg.
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