Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-22
EVENING STAR.


Horrible Homicide ta Bstttmsre.
oNE ROY erABs ANOTHER To Tse HRARr.
Yesterday evening, at twenty-five minutes
before eight O'Clock, Sergeant Shstrick, o; the
eastern police district, arrested a iai narncd
Wtlism Mitchell, fourteen years OF age living
with his parents .. No. rs North CSroline
street street charged with the murder by a knife OF
ano ten months old, VITO lived with his mother
a. 40. Isl Spring street The killing WAS done
at the corner of Monument and CarolSns streets
and resulted from playfulness thAt Sfters arss
turned into difficulty.
now 1T HAPPENED.
According To the statements of eve witnesses
ard the explanations Of relatives OF the faur
deTed boy, the circumstances Attending the
tragedy were SIS follows;-John Kelly a smooth
faced boy, tail for his age, but thin and con-
sumptiye, earned his living OF late BY selling
oranges in the market, although some time ago
he Was employed st vanishing. lt has bsea
his custom every evening 10 bring home 10 hts
mother quantity of beer in bis dinner kettle,
and last night he lad the can tilled With beer NJ
tbe saloon on the corner of Miliiman and CARO-
line streets. He wended his way along Caro-
line street in the direction of home, and when
be neared the corner of Monument and Caroline
streets, seeing crowd OF boys with whom he
wss acquainted, be preteIded 70 be intoxicated
and commenced staggering In this Connection
coubt Il expressed, and il il not clearly settled
that the in'oNiostion was feigned. Staggering
MP 20 the corner Kelly jostled against = small
boy named VIM. Mitchell, whereupon the last
named uttered some remOnStra' &c, and then
as ) alleged, Kelly struck Mitchell With his
csenChed hand.
STABBED TaBoUGH THg HEART
accord NJ 20 the statement OF soma, when
Kelly struck Mitchell the latter drew a snail
oie-t'adtd kIiie and struck Kelly in the breast,
the v ot nj inflicted penetrating the heart snd
causing death IN a few inmates. Edward TAI
rot, living at No. lSc North Carolina street and
EdNATd Carroll, residing At No. - T.. MOuu-
melt street, two boys, who saw the occurrence,
say That they each saw Mitchell strike Kelly IN
the breast with a knife. Both these BOYS were
locked up Ia the eastern station house az Wit
uSsses Kelly, after being stabbed, a. Is alleged,
again struck Mitchell ,this time in the face aud
falling over him, both rolled on the ground,
Kelly on tep. Kelly was about rising when
EdSard Carroll said: kelly, you're stabbed"
and as the lettering youth placed his hand over
hls heart npoD q blood besme AIRED shirt front, be
replied: ayes, I'm stabbed-I'm killed."
Just then kelly's brother Daniel arrived on
the spot, and the wounded boy said TO his
brother in feeble voice: Take me home
Dan, I'm dying; Lord help me, I'm dying"
These were the last words spoken by the fast
expiring boy. Daniel Kelly, supporting hts
BROTHER in bis arms, carried him down PhilpOt
alley towards Spring street, and ss he was
nearing home, his burden being heavy, he
dropped 1t at once, but soon regsined it. The
spot where the body fell was covered with
blood, as was the street along which il had been
carried. The house on Spring street being
reached, the dying boy was taken in, gasping
heavily, but speaking not a word. His mother
caught him in her arms and wildly imploIe d
him TO speak 10 her, but all effort was in
ehectual, and within ten minutes after being
stabbed the boy died. Parties who had started
10 search of physicians returned with DR.. y. n.
Grimes, but by that time life had departed from
the body.
AFRAID or BRING HUNG.
Michael Desne, meeting Sergeant Shadrick
and police officer Thomas, told them a boy lad
been carried into house mp Spring street stab
bed. Several boys said Willie Mitchell hal done
II, and Sergeant Shadrick, going TO Mitcnel's
house, 10. IFS North Caroline street, arrested
him, kelly's father has been dead some time,
father, James Mitchell, formerly proprietor of
an omDibns line, Il parsly zed. Young Mitchell,
a handsome, intelligent, and innocent looking
boy, was talking TO bis mother, aud when the
officer said he wanted him the little fellow
started for bis hat ard said: Gan right. I'm
ready" His mother asked what was the matter,
and being informed that her son had killed a
companion, she tainted and fell as IL dead. The
boy Mitchell, while on the way to the station
house. said Kelly struck him, and he struck
BIN with knife, after which Kelly struck
again. Mitchell seemed to have but one Op-
pTessIve idea, and he continued repeating a. he
walked TO the station house, "oh, L hope I
won't be hung"
After being locked up some time he had a
conversation with Sergeant Watchmsn, TO
whom be stated that he was whiting with the
knife, and that when Kelly fell over he struck
upon tie knife. He told Sergeant Shadrick
where the knife could be found in his house.
and upon officer Thomas going to look tor it he
found il in the place designated.
THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH.
The knife with which il is alleged the cutting
vas done is not six inches long, Intending blade
aud handle. Ii is a little knife, such "a school
boys use, with white hone handle, aud one
b'sde few inches long. The greatest surprise
was expressed 10y every one who saw the wound
that such an instrument should have inflicted
death blow.
IMPAC8LTEG 4 JURY.
l'r. r. X. Walker being summoned, impaneled
jury a inqU6s-. inQuiri's by the coroner
q iOnSrrated the fact that W. j. salisbury as
SISTED Daniel Kelly IN carrying him into the
souse, and that the kettle as brought back TO
tie house I1pty; also, that Mitchell, when ar
rested, had a bruiSe on his face as from a blow,
sra that the deceased hsd two sisters, y ate aud
May, and two brothers, Daniel and Joseph.
: 90 Jury, after viewing the body. adjourned
ninth thls afternoon 81 . O'Clock. when an in
gnest WIZ he Leldin the central police station
il't Sun, 22a
a DIGGlFIED TRAvELER-A tall, pOrtiv, aud
dignihed citizen OF the Quaker persuasion. well