Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-17
THE FRONT STREET MURDER.
Laura Armstrong Makes a Clean Breast Of
It 10 the Coroner.

A rope with a coffin in the background
is a moral agent. There can be no doubt
Of &C.. Upon this theory Il may be adj
vanced that a great number Of ropes, with
accompanying collins, would be an effsc-
tive element in the government Of nations,
IL bayonets and "c0lored troops" had not
been substituted. Coroner Mohatt yes
terday morning swoke with a brilliant
thought ia his head, and before IL had
time 20 fade away he FASTENED to the jail
with a fo0t-rule, and, boiling suddenly
into the cell of Laura Armstrong, be said
that he had come to measure her for a
coffin, and it would be a good idea for her
to tell all she knew about that Kelly murs
der; which she did. She was subsequently,
interviewed by one Of b APPEAL re-
portsrs, 20 whom she repeated the confess
sion. To the heterogeneous put to her,
she said she was from Nashville origi-
uallv. but went 20 St. Louis in her youth
with her mother. When her mother died,
six months ago, she went to
Susan Carter's, the puffy woman who
akeuta house, She washed and cooked
for susan: found Susan very kind and
very fair in her dealing, and when that
puffy person concluded that 1t would be
beneficial to her general health TO migrate
70 Memphis with her man Billy, Laura
agreed to form n Of the r6tiuu6.
was q month ago. They at once took mp
their OdOrifsrOus lodgings in the sooty
back yard which was described IN our
account of the murder, and went into
business, Laura SAYS that Susan, in spite
of her ~pufhness, is g sound business WO-
man aud manages to get along. she said
that when she came home from the ball
that night with Susan, and Susau's man
and jim Galloway, her mau, they
found Kelly and his "parduer - in the
house. "The 'psrdner says to Billy Car
ter. saws he, billy, lets get a drink across
the street. and so they went. As o o
as tkey had gone out, I says to Jim Gallo
way, says 1, Jim, I want 20 go to bed.
Pm sleepy, and there's that man sittiugin
my bed pointing to Kelly. Then Jim
caught Kelly By the arm this way and
chucksd him OF the bed 70 the floor, and
began kicking and punching him, and
stlmping upCuhim very bad Jim was Q =
Gus Of him, and / said, MY God, Jim, you
will XIII the man. Don't you see he Is
drunk, he can't lend hisself. Well, then.
says Jim, says be, why don't the damned
s-n Of 8 bh get up?' Shortly afte--
ward Carter and the dead mans partner
came back, and the partner holiered out,
oh. no. dead drunk, eh2 Billy, let US
carry him out and then Billy and the
partner carried him out in the yard, and
the partner went away. Billy came back
and then went to bed. Galloway kicked
l4AA l44AEA ~ ALI any 1A0
Ibid you see Galloway take any money
from Kslly?'
.No. see him take no money. I saw
his partner take two i've dollar bills from
"How many of you slept in that little
room that nighJ?"
Five. Susan and Billy in one bed,
Anne Baker and me and Galloway in the
other. He paid two bits for his bed. We
had no room tor him, and no 'klYer' TO
put him on the floor, so he slept on the
edge Of my bed. He went out 70 the yard
three or four times that night, and was
blowing and pulling and smiling all the
time in the bed so that / could not sleep, I
and ] says TO him, Jim, says 1, what is the
matter with your I wish you wOuld let
me sleep. He got up for good right soon
IN the morning, and lit his pipe, and went
into the yard sgain, and came
back and went to Sues bed, ard I heard
him say Sue, Sue and he went around
10 ell of US and woke Us up. be told Us
hen that the man was dead in the yard,
and we all got up and he went away, and
[ saw hin ne more. We sat there, all Of
Us, and Billy, when il was good light
vent and told the police"
When did you first become aCquaint-
ID with Galloway
al first come iquainted with him at
SMITHS, "a here ia the bottom, about q
month ago, when I anne from St. Louis.'
Our reporter allowed the creature to go
pack to her cell, and he LETT the jail.
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