Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-08-26
Child Murder.


colored female child was found in
hole in the creek bank just back of
Mr.. BRAY's brickyard. The throat
of the child had been cut Coroner
CROWLEY summoned a jury, which on
Monday afternoon commenced an
examination. The following testi-
mony was produced:
alfred H.. Smith = This morning,
about7 O'Clock, Mr.. Mullineux's team
passed my house; the men on the wagon
saw blood in the road; created quite an
excitement; tracked the blood to bank,
but did not find body; saw cork heel OF
female shoe No. Cor z; it went through
POOLS corn; abandoned search for
body; went home; boy soon came and
told me they had found the body of a
child; notified Coroner Cromley;
heard suspicious.
G.. W. Viney- Ed Hill, boy of 16I
years, told me this morning. no person
had better give hims S. or he'd tell who
it was; told him I'd give it; said he saw
the woman come from there, and she
didn't have child; she come out of
brickyard; said she was colOred wo-
man; she went up back street; saw her
next opposite Battles gate; she went
back up street when she saw him again;
said Dale offered him s5, but woman
was going to give him $40 not to tell,
and he was going away.
w. q. III. Needham-Held eXamina-
tion; it is colored child; the spinal
column and jugular vein were cut on
edges of wound were even, showing
that it had been cut with knife; the
lungs were expanded; placed gland and
lung in water and they fioated; the
lungs floated when separated from
heart; this is proof child brcathed;
full time for child; never been washed
hadn't been born over or hours
when killed. AT this point the exam
inatIon was adjourned until Tuesday
morning-REP.
Ed. Hill-About o'clock in the
night saw heavy set woman with dark
clothes on going up back street; next
saw her coming down street by Lasley's
toward IIayward's drug store; she turn
ed round and started back mp street;
saw her no more; don't know who it
was; told Wash. Viney that if | knew
who it was, would tell for So; didn't
tell v. as he states; didn't say woman
would give me $40 not to tell; nobody
offered me $40 not TO tell; never told
knew who it was; thought it
was Mrs. Day.
Alfred II. Smith = (RecalleD-Ed.
Willis knows something about the affair;
he has left town; heard this from talk
in the colored band.
Ed. l-(Recalled)-Saw Willis in
carly part of evening; don't think !
saw him after 10 o'clock.
G.. W. Viney-( -(Recalled)-Hill told
me he didn't exactly know who it was
she liked to run on him, he said; she
came out of briekyard; he said, "they'd
better not offer me So, or Pll tell VINO
had the child"
Charles RobinsOn.-Monday afternoon
Ed. Hill said to me that he knew some
thing about this thing; told him to tell
and he'd get s5; he said he was going
to get $40 and his way paid' he said
he wouldn't tell; he said he knew
all about it; he said $40 are more than
$5; has no suspicious himself. lThis
witness says Hill told him the woman
went from opposite Battles toward the
river and down Front street.-REP.l
Ed. HiH.-(Recallcd)- with
Robinson as above stated; told him Cor
oner had offered him So to tell; was
gassing about the $40; woman went back
ND Second street, not over to Front; |
am satisfied in my mind it was Mrs.
Day saw; thought it was her when L
first saw her; thought she lived on Sec
ond street and went across TO Haywards
store to see her as she came down; she
requested me one night, about month
ago, to say nothing about seeing her in
certain place.
Mrs. Day-KnOw Hill; never saw him
in lot, don't remember of ever seeing
him. 1 work at Thomasson House; left
hotel about s o'clock i'm the evening;
live opposite JAS. Rriestley's; came back
to hotel about 10 o'clock; didn't sec
Hill that night; saw three boys at GER
tain place and requested them to say
nothing to Mr.. Day about it, knew
nothing about baby having been killed
until next morning.-[Mrs. Day is a
white woman.-REP.l
With the above testimony the jury
found that the child came to Its
death from having its throat cut by
some person or persons unknown to
the jury. In justice to Coroner
CROWLEY we will state that he has
been untiring In his labors to find out
the guilty party. He has examined
all suspected wamen personally, who
have been reported to him. As the
matter stands now it is rs much of a
mystery rs it was at Z o'clock Mon
day morning.