The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-21
The Accused Still at Lar e e.

Brief mention has twice oeen maoe VI
the affrav which took place Mt Kelly s1ore'
Hanover county, on Sunday the i2th IN,
cont resulting in the mortal woundlng OF
M John c. McGhee, a venerable and nigh
ir.resnected farmer, residing near Galnes's
mill. ,,-c, .:,a
IN sunday Justice W. L. Cowardin held
on inquest over the body of the deceased ;
We Inv before our readers an abstract OF
tho testimony elected. The jurors were
,lbert G. Allison, Walker Hogan, james
Tucker. H. NJ. Turner, James r. Barrlck,
lanes Bowles, Joseph Adams, Parker Mar
tin, Thaddeus Higgins, Miles Cartwright
James H. Mantle.
Edward W. Kelley testified that on the
18th instant Mr.. McGhee (the deceased)
and his son Peter were sitting in his house
talking about politics, when Jack Parker
n nepro), who was standing by, called Mr..
NcGhee liar. Peter McGhee then jumped
nm and hit the negro over the head with n
chair and knocked him down. Another
negro, named Henry Pitts, then rushed up.
and Peter asked him what he had to do
with it. Witness didn't recollect Pitts's re-
DIV, but Peter ran him into the back yard
and struck him. By this time witness sue
ceeded in getting Jack Parker ont of the house
into the porch. Old Mr.. McGhee came to
the door, and Jack hit him on the head
with stick. Mr.. McGhee then got m axe
out of the yard and came back to the door
Witness couldn't get the axe from him.
Then shut the door, and saw no more OF the
ARRAY.
Peter C. McGhee, son Of the deceased,
testified ~ was sitting at Kelly's, talking
with fatherabout something, when Jack Par
ker called father a liar. asked him what
he had to do with it. He replied that he
was not talking to me, but to my father. J
then knocked him down with chair, and
in that time the negro Pitts ran in, and
[ asked him if he took it up. Don't remem-
her his answer, but ran him out with a
knife in my hand. He then said he wanted
to make peace, and let him g6 Jack ana
some friends we're then going down the
road with father after him. | followed, and
when we overlook them some blows passed
Jack knocked me down with stick. All
of us then got into row, and Green Zeppor
(nerro) gave Jack pistol. We then ran
back towards the store, Jack following and
Swapping q pistol at us. Father turned
and threw the axe OF him. Jack then
seized the axe, and holding it with both
hands, brought it down heavily upon
fathers head, splitting it open.
Walter c. Cartwright deposed that when
Jack interrupted the conversation between
McGhee and his son, by calling the former
4 liar. Mr.. McGhee called him d-m ras-
cal. and wanted to know what he had to do
with it. Jack started towards him, and
Peter McGhee knocked him down with
chair. Witness afterwards saw Mr.. Nc
Ghee running up the road with an axe, ana
Jack following with stick and pistol.
After being struck once or twice with the
stick, Mr.. McGhee threw The axe Mt the
nero. and ran. Jack seized the axe, and
overtaking the deceased, buried it in his
head.
Isaac Jackson negro testified that ne
saw the fight in the road. Saw Jack draw
the pistol on Mr.. McGhec and his son. IneV
ran, Jack following until they got near the
grocery. The deceased then threw the axe
back Jack swapping the pistol at him. :,
and Jack tried again to fire the pistol, and
then struck Mr.. McGhee on the head.
Marshall Thompson (negro) described
the scene in the store. Henry Pitts told
Jack to come out, and not be contradicting
white folks. Both the negroes were run out
by the McGhees.
Upon this evidence the jury found '' that
the said John c. McGhee came to his death
by cut with an axe, inflicted on his head
in the hands of Jack Parker (freedman)
on the 18th day of July about the hour of
| o'clock, in the public road at or near hel-
ly's store, on the bridge"
Jack Parker is still at large. Green Zip
por, his alleged accomplish, and notori-
nuslY bad character. is in inil.