Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-27

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Morning.


Oc@Sn C@useo Oy Pistol Shot
Jones, the negro murderer, who was shot
and hung to lamp post on the Square
night before last died at a quarter Of clever
O'Clock yesterday morning in Jail. After
os1ng taken into the station house bis
wounds were probed and all human aid in
the way OF medical skill was rendered BY
Drs. Currey and Plunkett, who succeeded
IN extracting one ofthe two bullets that had
entered his body. Jones was removed
from the station house to the jail
where ne was carefully nursed by the TAILOR
and bis attendants until the hour of his
death. Jones was interviewed by various
persons, both white and colored, but made
no concessions as to his guilt. As soon
as he died yesterday Coroner Everett
summoned jury Of inquest, composed of
the following citizens r. II. Campbell,
Foreman, A. D. Eubanks, F. Deaderick, T.
). irwin, j. G. Pentecost, w. 81. billiard,
and John Earthman. Drs. Currey and
Plunkett, the physicians who were in at
tendance soon after Jones was rescued by
the police by the mob, were present, and
made post mortem examination of the
body yesterday in presence ofthe Jury at the
jail. John Shelton, jailer, Barney Akers,
night watch, WmI Vauxhall, clerk of the
jail, and John MCGOWAN, constable, all col
ored, were examined, and stated in SUBJ
stance what has already been published in
relation to the mode of entry, seizure and
lynching of Jones. All the witnesses testi-
he'd that the persons who entered the iail
and did the lynching were not disguised;
were dressed in the ordinary garb of citi-
zens, and were unknown to them.
The post morton examination showed, as
has been stated, that Jones was shot twice.
each time in the back, one ball entering
about three inches from the spine and
four inches above the hip bone; the other
entered on the opposite side about the same
distance from the spine and the same dis
tance from the hip bone. One ball, the
smaller of the two, and which was fred in
to the left side of the back from a small
size Smith & Wesson's pistol, was extracted
about three inches above the navel before
the negro was removed from the Station
house. This ball perforated the small in
testines five times, the stomach twice, and
also the left lobe of the liver. The internal
hemorrhage was very profuse and filed the
entire cavity. This ball produced the death
OF Jones. The ball fred into the right side
passed downward and was found. Upon
the post mortem operation by the surgeons,
lodged in the great pSOGs muscle within
the peLUis. This is the larger ball, fred
from large size Smith & Wesson pistol.
While it was necessarily painful, yet it did
not affect the life of Jones. After hearing
the evidence of Doctors Currey and Punk
EFT, and the above named witnesses. and
also having had q personal inspection Of the
body of the deceased, and examined the Jail. |
the jury returned a verdict that David |
Jones death was caused by pistol shot |
which perforated the bowels, stomach !
and liver, and which produced internal |
hemorrhage, from which he died, and the |
pistol or pistols were in the hands of some |
unknown person or persons"
After the performance Of the surgical op- |
GRAFTON, the body of the deceased was prop |
erly sewed up where it had been opened, |
and turned over to his family for burial, II |
was taken by r. II. Groomes & Co. to |
Jones former place of residence, corner of |
Cedar and McLemore streets, and will be |
inferred this evening at o'clock.
- During the rush Of the mob with Jones |
to the Square, Sheriff Donelson, while at
tempting to discharge his duty as best he
could under existing circumstances, received
a blow on the back of the neck, almost
Telling him to the ground. Mr.. A. D. En-
banks went to his assistance and carried
him into the engine house near by. We
are glad to learn that Sheriff Donelson re-
ceiVed no severe injury and was out yester-
day. In our report Of the lynch
ing we stated that officer Mckinney
cut the negro down from the gas post. In
this we, though so informed, were mis-
-aken. Officer Mckinney was not present,
and the body was cut down by some other
policeman. The rope with which jones
was hung was eagerly sought for and divi-
1ed into countless pieces, nearly every one
being anxious to get piece as a memento
Of the fearful fate which befell the murderer
lespite the efforts of the authorities to pre-
rent it.
We might speak more at length concern
ng the lynching of Jones, but do not deem
t necessary in this connection. His death
vas not due to hanging, but resulted from
me of the two pistol wounds received
while in his prison cell. Two pieces of
cad, whether one or the same bullet, we
NOW not were found yesterday in his cell,
imposed to have been fred at him when he
vas shot, as one of the witnesses before
he coroner's jury testified to having heard
hree or four shots.
As to Jones' character and past life, so
lark with crime, we need say nothing. He
las been charged with numbers of larce-
lies, robberies, burglaries, ETC., and at the
ime oThis death had white woman for
lis wife. Her name is Ellen Bell, and she
vas raised in North Alabama. Jones also
lad colored wife from whom he had been
eparated three or four years, and since {
hen the colored wife has married a negro
FAMED Gentry. Both of them went to {
he Jail yesterday evening and saw
he remains of their former hus-
and. The white wife did not seem much
fected, and after looking few minutes at
be body went away. The co!ored wife,
IOwever, seemed very much grieved, aud
emained long while crying over the dead i
ody Of him who once had been her hus- t
and, but had abandoned her for life Of c
hame and crime. She it was who went to a
iroomes' undertaker's shop and purchased I
coffin for the deceased, beside carrying Q
lothing for his shroud to the jail. t
Caleb Jones, brother of David Jones, who t
now confined in Jail for burglary, was |
ermitted to see the remains last even [
lg. He was very much moved, and upon {
eng remanded to his cell, was heard to q
tier fearful screams, as if terrified by the T.
Tful fate which had befell his brother, and a
le punishment which may in the course of q
stice be melted to him.