Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-02
HOMICIDE.


Pratt stabbed Smith In the arm pit with long
dirk, In his Pratt's) house. Smith, bleeding
freely, walked down MS far as the corner of Sixth
and Tatnall Sts., near where, being unable 10 go
further, he sat down and was shortly after car
ried into the shoe store Of Jacob Rebman on the
corner of Sixth and Tatnall.
| Surgical aid was summoned Immediately, and
Drs. Porter Draper Tracey and Wilson all ar
rived and with great difficulty succeeded in sew
| Ing up the severed artery but the loss of blood
previous to their being summoned and the great
loss during the operation of sewing up the wound
was so great that he died at about half-past ten.
| Pratt was arrested and is now In custody.
There are several stories circulating about the
exact manner of the killing. The house in which
II occurred belonged to the deceased, and some
paper-hang:rs were in 1t at the time papering one
Of the lower rooms. Smith went In and looked
| nj them, made some remark about the rooms and
passed up stairs. Soon afterwards he came down
and went into the street wounded and bleeding.
1t Is asserted by some that the house Is not
Pntt's residence, but was the residence of his
| wife.
| The alleged cause Of the killing is undue init
macy between the deceased and the wife of Pratt
1t Is generally rumored that there has been such
an intimacy of long standing, and some say that
In consequence of 1t Pratt has not lived with his
wife for some time and that Smith allowed her to
live in this house lent free. The fact, however,
that Pratt hns been engaged in business away
from home, In Virginia we believe, may account
for the rumor that he and his wife did not live TO-
gethcr
aonoo ,,, ,,,a.'.''' ""s oy ~ w. io''-
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~ ''o ''.o''.e. anu neeA' lug pio" sechs
- ~. -. DN VI. se'e''ou a"u
- ' ",' 20 amer i'"h ''i'''i
9n.'n "as, ~ 70 u'n'hs .ioui iooh'ng NJ 'he
mounu " iorni eie.'r iuea Oh .herespeetNe posi-
ri,'' maui no a''ehpt Whatever 10 escape but
remained In the house until Officers HYATT Solo
man and Heal went to arrest him, and when arrest
ca he made no resistance, but he was so weak fom
fright and agitation that he had almost to be car
red 10 tne haii
"nen Smith was hrst carried into Rebman's
store there was no idea that the wound was ia
WI one 'nat is' there was no such Idea amongst
'ne crowd .he doctors looked serious from the
very nrsl' ana we suppose mad little hopes OF him.
When first carried in he was fully conscious, and
stated that "Jo. Pratt had stabbed him. we think
he even gave the number of the house where II
had occurred.
He said but little more, however, except that
he complained several times of the pain of the
surgical operations of catching the artery and sew
| Ing IL up. His two sons were with him when he
died, and were sadly Affected Mr.. Smiths wife
was also there short time before he died, but
being informed at that time there was no danger,
she had gone home, and was not there at the time
of his death.
| The Coroner summoned jury who met this
morning and viewed the body, and adjourned TO
meet in the City Hall this afternoon, to hold the
| nquest.-Jfonday's Daily Commercial
Further pnrticulars-The Csrsner's In
q"es''
As we stated yesterday, the Coroner summoned
jury to hold IN inquest on tho &c leased. 1t met
ut little before IL O'Clock NJ, and after viewing
the body adjourned to meet at the City Hall at
o'clock. Owing to the length of time required for
the post mortsm examination by the physicians
=, .s c,... y s,A Do'oie 'ney n"u asAen'piea
'"e ivy @o""'A '"'n'oer, WHITE 'ne inquest
WIS heiu'
summorod ,vos -. so,a,.s n.,.
man DANIEL James, John E. Frock, John Fl.
"airaVch, henry.f' Finnegan, Thomas VI. Culbert,
Augustih .. Lane, Benz. II. Newlin, Maxwell b.
oenietree' Edwin Il. Foster, Benz. Morris, DIR. o.
,,, ,.,.,a...s No' -As''''
Mr.. r.,,.u. Mana',A,
door 10 M, Pratt ala no, s0o ~. n0A'
saw the blood nm tho ,,,vor,on, 49, ,,".' on'!
noise in tho b,nso ond ha..a - ~, s',"s
supno.ed n,us, h.v. h.,,, o,,,,,' 80 one "no quo
70 ont Mrs. Pratt lived IN Tho honaa NJ. p aaa
has not lived there since Mrs p ,novsd ,hora '
Mr. and Mira. Pratt are NOT divorced Mrs. pro,,,s
son lived there be ,yos about aS,oon ,aars IA
and had rono -, n ,,s,, $1,000. wa a., LIS o.u'