The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-07
CRIME.
A CoIored Man BrutaIIy Murdered.

A Louisville (Ky.) Courier of the 9th, gives
the folio owing:-
Night before last about nine O'Clock, number
OF negroes were standing on the corner OF
Fifteenth and Magazine streets, when a soldier
or man dressed In soldiers clothes, came up
and asked colored man by the name of John
son to inform him where Alice was. johnson
told the soldier he did not know. The soldier
then asked johnson If there was not negro
ball in the house near the corner, and on being
informed that there was not asked where the
ball was held II it was not in that house. john
son replied that he did not know of any
ball in the vicinity. The soldier asked
other questions, and in the course of the
conversation johnson told him 1t was none OF
his business, as the black folks did not want
white men to attend their balls anyhow. The
soldier took otfense at this remark and b ard
words passed between them. We are informed
that johnson struck the soldier with q brick or
rock, but this is denied by Johnson aud others.
At all events the soldier swore vengeance and
went away: In short time he was seen re-
turning with musket or Enfield rifle. John
son, being aware of his approach, went into the
house. a two-story frame, on the southwest
corner of Fifteenth and Magazine streets, to
avoid collision. After he had entered the
nall, another negro, named Doc. Ward, de-
scended the stairway and turned to 90 in the
same direction that johnson was going follow
ing him, and being ignorant of any danger.
While both were passing through the hall the
soldier stepped to the door and fred the ball
entering Wards back, and passing through his
abdomen, entered the left hip of johnson, and
can came out at the groin; and struck the door in
up stairs, and johnson, not knowing he was
shot, started to go up the stairway, when he fell.
Ward fingered in great agony until yesterday
morning about four O'Clock, when he expired.
He was quiet, inoffenslve man, and had nothing
to do with the difficulty between johnson and
the soldier. Johnso on's wound was carefully
dressed, and although of serious character, it
is thought will not prove fatal.
After the shooting, the soldier walked away
few steps, deliberately loaded his gun and then
slowly marched himself out ofsight, since which
time he has not been heard Of No one knew
who he was or where he belonged.
An Old Man Imprisoned by His Wife and
Sons.
:. The Dubuque (Iowa) Times Of last week pub
fishes the following
Many OF our citizens remember Mr.. James
Gibbon, worthy aud respectable farmer who
Tor number of years has resided on farm
about fourteen miles from the city. Some
months ago he became unfortunate in business
and, while labOrng under pecuniary embarrass-
ment, made an assignment of all his real and
personal property to his sons. Time wore on,
and, as the cloud of adversely which had tenn
porarIly covered his fortune passed away he
applied to his children and requested them to
reinqulsh The property which he had assigned
to their care.
'Strange as it may appear, this reasonable
request was refused, and system of persecu-.
tion was at once commenced against the old
man which rivaled in malignity and wicked
ness the flial ingratitude displayed by the
uduRuteIs hiuS Lear, Tue story OF whose
wrongs has been immortalized by Englaud's
greatest bard. The poor old man, lettering on
the verge OF the grave was refused the custody
OF that property which he had acquired through
years OF toll, and was daily subjected TO
persecution and insult at the hands of his
unnatural offspring, TO whom he had always
been kind and lndugent parent,
granting them everything that was in his
power to supply. But few years ago his Oldest
son emigrated to Idaho, but being unfortunate
in business returned to the parental root, ragged
and destitute. The father took him in gave him
his old seat at the family board, and provided
him with money and clothlng-an act of kind.
ness which the hopeful offspring now repays by
the most shocking ngratitude. The conduct of
the sons, it seems, Is sustained by the mother,
who turns against her husband and vies
with her SONS to render his lot hell on
earth. few weeks ago Mrs. Gbbon preferred
a charge of assault and battery against her
husband, and on this charge, false in every
essential particular, he was brought up for
trial before justice of the peace, and, on the
false swearing OF numerous witnesses engaged
expressly for the occasion by the plaintiffs,
found guilty, and fined in the sum Of $50. IN
vain Mr. Gibbon implored his sons to advance
the money and remit his fine, or become his
security. With depth of cruelty aud iugrati-
tude that almost surpasses belief they refused to
do either, but allowed the old man to be led
away a prisoner to this city, where he is nov
held in close confinement in the County Jail
The above is a simple statement of facts but q
more damnable exhibition of flial ingratitude
and remorseess cruelty cannot be found in the
realms of poetry or fiction.