Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-14
FOUL MURDER.
African Thugs Do the Blacklist Deed that
stains the Criminal ReOsr6s Of
Eemphls.
A Nest Of Pimps and Prostitutes Ou FrsHt
Street that Ought to BE- Clsansea
by fire.
A White Nan Finds his Way into Il Drunk
and ls Rsbbsd and Murdered with
Every Circumstances Of
Horror.

Horror.
DIABOLIsM.
The worst deed Of diabolism hat has
been perpetrated in Memphis since the
FIRST log shanty was erected, was done On
Front street on Thursday night. About
] y O'Clock Yesterday morning the news was
/ circulated in the neighbOrhood of 81, a
I house situated above OOmmerce street, on
the left and size going up, that there
was q dead man in the back yard, and a
motley crowd commenced assembling 10
see ''the sight" The police shortly after-
ward notified Coroner MOffatt, who pro-
ceeded TO gather a Jury to do the disagree
able duty of holding an inquest over a
murdered man.
H B0UsE
is big wooden structure, occupied partly
by white and partly by black people. The
backyard is approached by q very narrow
and dirty alley, which leads in from the
front between the house and 4 decayed,
wOrm-eaten fence. There is a long, dirty
porch to the side Of the house facing the
l fence, the rooms of which are entered
separately and are all occupied by a dense
population Of poor, who may be decent,
but are certainly very dirty. The
backyard is small and smells bad.
THE PEOPLE
The room in which the deed is supposed
/ to have been committed was rented some
time age by a short, fat, puffy, swollen
I uegrsss, with a face like a decsyed pump
kin, and her man Carrier, who makes a
I living by the " profession The Is curly
hsaded-would be yellow were it not for
the gross dissipation in which be lives,
which gives him a diabOliCal look. He
may be innocent, but he has a mean,
cOwardlV look, which would surely pro-
I cure him a rope among some commune
/ ties. They came here from st. Louis
[ about q mOnth ~ where they had been
keeping bar according 10 the testl-
mony of Mrs. Carter. the puffy wO-
man. In her trunk, during the exam
nation, were found certain medi.
cal certificates from the st. Louis
! Board of Health, which showed what her
occupation had been. The trunk also
contained q gOOdly display Of dresses and
other frippery, among which was a LOAD
stone" which she said was given TO her
by a witch as being potential in her Pc
culiar way OF life. There wss also a piece
of " gOld-stOne," as she called it., and
] some Caunel coal, the peculiar virtues Of
which she could not very well explain.
/ There were two beds in the room, an
apartment about fifteen feet square, or
/ less, low Ceiled, sOOty and dilapidated
everything was dirty; the floor looked
as il 10 had been MANFRED for a
crop Of potatoes. A table stood
| against the wall, covered with kitchen
utensils, which appeared never TO have
! been washed, and nom IL an OdOr as if of
/ old mgckersl. The beds were all tumbIed
M: the furniture exceedingly nasty; the
/ only thing decent in the house was the
trunk. Inside the door lay the body of
the dead man, covered partially by his
clothing. He also looked dirty; his arms
and neck and part of mis- breast were
blush, as if from violent handling; his
IA -TH-nan. &c., aLHH- IL
cts: his hands were large and rough, like
those Of a hsbitUsl laDOrer; be had a slight
whisker on his chin Of a mud color"
THE JURY WERE HOLDING AN INQUEST
in this room; two policemen, pistol in
hand. We're ia the yard guarding Carter.
The operation of coming at the truth was
long and tedious. From estHJsments of !
many witnesses, most of which were ir-
relevant, IL appears for certain that the
dead man, Alike kslly,a and another person
named Jerry Kennedy went there during
the afternoon while both of them were /
drunk, Kelly being the more sober of
the two There were there the woman
Carter, a black person named Laura Arm
strong, partially deaf, and also from St.
Louis, and g third wench still darker
than either of the other two. Kelly had
a dog with him which he held by q chain, /
a bull terrier. They remained there, and
in the evening after il became dark. these
women went TO q bail. Carter, "the pal"
went with them. Tit" bau' was At the foot
of Poplar street. The two white mon,
Kelly and his 3" p~ardnsT," were left be-
hind, one OF them sitting in the yard.
when the weuChss came back, the puffy
woman fOund Kelly lying on her bed.
and she SwOre that she was mad and told
Carter TO put him out. Carter and Kelly's
" parduer, % she says,
HAULED HIM OUT OF THE BED
and Carter gave him a kick, while they
hauled him out the back door into the
yard. This was pretty late; she knew no
more about that part of it. A man named
Galloway, who was at the bail, came
d" hOms" with the black women, and be
it appears had a hand in it,.
THE DEED.
From the testimony it was plain that
Kelly had the following items Of pc
cuniary value upon his person
wh6n he went there: our s. bills, one
81 bill, two 81 bills, and two 50c
pieces. When he was examined by
the jury he had none of these, but there
were several papers proving bis name,
One was a certificate from one Pat BOyde,
dated December 6.h, at Senstobia, Miss,
showing that Kelly had worked there
during tina month. He was dragged, as
W a. nNaaaaH NNAH ea'Aa tL JAG -
ored thug Carter, Kelly being half asleep
and still under the influence of liquor,
but not so much so, as Laura Armstrong
testified, as Kennedy. The people in the
front part Of the house about that time
testified TO hearing sounds Of distress, and
the wife Of one man suggested that he
should
OUT AND SEE WHAT WAS TIE MATTER,
bat he, with the Indifference common
among Woodworking people, Infatuated
to scenes Of horror and blood, said that
the id s-s OF BIS might kill each
other all night tor sll he cared, he wanted
to sleep. galloway and Carter at that
time were operating upon Kelly. The
of death was the swapping in two Ct
wiudpipe. There were no ribs broken
nor any bruises on the face. The neck
aud arms where he had been held showing
that could not have come by
The marks Of a pen knife about
three-sights Of an inch were visible just
above the left groin and near there was
a confusion as if he had been trampled
The puffy woman sad Carter re-
manned i'm the o all night, When the
police came there in the morning they =
placed them under arrest. The thug Gal ,
could not be- found. A person of
color named Smith went in there after
the puffy woman was placed under arrest
and she asked him TO go for 4
HALF PIN OF GIN
which he did and which she drank. The ]
Of this was to inhzme her eye which .
had a fearful bguis8 upon it, which she :
wore she got coming home from the Z
hall. She was coming down the steps 7
and having tr0d upon her dress fell for 7
ward and nearly knocked her brains out g
against the wall. Smith said that when I
ihe was getting one out for him to 90 q
tor the gin she pulled 4 roll Of green I
backs out Of her stocking. She denied I
this with great gravity and apparent I
honesty. On Smith being asked if there !
promptly replied, "Oh, Christ, yes; there 7
was a pile in it," Laura Armstrong said E
Jim Galloway and Carter took Kelly /
out Of the bed, after they came from the .
bali, and we're dragging him out doors, .
when Galloway kicked him. Il may have Z
been a kick that broke his windpipe. She I
also said chat she saw i've dollar bills G
him, and that she saw lis partner
Kennedy take them, though the partner,
Kennedy, was much drunken than he was. !
II appears the partner, Kennedy, left there
either before or at the time; he was found
by the police dead drunk yesterday
morning and put in the st-stion-house.
The faithful dog remained in the yard ]
whining over the dead man all night, and \
II dogs can indicate sorrow by their ac- J
ions he was in the depths of despair 3
during the progress Of the inquest. After
working at the case for three hours COrO- ?
nsr MOnatt found 10 necessary 10 take a :
recess until four o'clock, ia order to pro-
the testimony of the partner, Ken +
nsdy, who was lying drunk ia the station
house. The result Of The investigation =
the jury that the man had been /
murdered and sisO robbed, and that Car .
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