The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-03
M U Err MOST FOUL!
The Dreadful Termination Of q
Game OF Cards.
A Man Receives Two Fatal Wounds

1t Is no wonder that the Christian
community has classed cards as one OF
Satan's instruments to lead his victims
to eternal woe, tor every day we find
them associated in some disgraceiul or
horrible affair. Growing out of Them
last night was committed most cold
blooded murder.
II occurred in saloon on the
northwest corner of Race and Water
streets, iu the heart Of The Eighth Ward.
The proprietor of the place ia named
BRYAN Trayner. The murdered man,
william Reynolds, lived with his wife at
No. 40 Water street. For some time he
has been out of work, his last employ
ment being with Ex-Sheritf Ferdinand
Springmeier, for whom he worked IN the
capacity OF teamster. He was OF me-
dunn size, spare face, and with light
chin whiskers. He enjoyed the repu.a-
ton of being sober, inoffensiye and
hard-working man. He was said 10 be
perfectly sober at the time of the diff
Guilty, and had few moments before
been talking to some of his acqualnt-
ances, but block or so away, before he
went to the place where he was mnr.
dered.
Ezekiel Archie, the murderer, has a
bad reputation, ana mas seenlnslde the
Black Maria several times, and bears
marks OF life OF dissipation, which will
in all probability end on the gallows.
| At 10 O'Clock last night, or few min
utes earlier, William Reyr olds, the muir
dered man, Charles Gallagher, James
| Welsh and man named Walker, were
| iu Trayner's saloon. A game of "seven-
| up" was in progress between Archie
and Walker. A quarrel between the
men ensued as " who had won tbs
game.
AT this juncture Reynolds came up
and made some remark to Archie, and a
quarrel then began between the latter
two.
| Archie called Reynolds a liar. "Don't
you call me that again." said Raynol IS.
In minute or so Archie left the saloon,
| going out on to Water street, and he
| dared Reynolds to follow him. Reynolds
| went out after him and scuttla ensued.
| The men in the saloon and the officers
on the beat ran to the scene OF the fight
but all arrived too late; the horrible
| deed was done-a murder had been com
mitted, the wounded man only living
nine minutes alter he was stabbed.
| On examining the cuts, it was found
that two incisiOns had been made in the
left side, one near the nipple, the other
| few inches below. Both penetrated
the lungs and caused internal hemor-
rhage. The weapon with which the cuts
| were made is common clasp-knite, the
blade of which is about three and one
half inches long. The lunges must have
| been made in anupward direction, judg.
| Ing from the looks of the wounds, and
either was sufficient to cause death.
The murderer was arrested, and gives
his version Of the affair, in which be
claims it was in self-deiense. Threats
of lynching by the friends OF Reynolds
led to the removal Of the prisoner from
the station-house to the jail soon after
his arrest.
Some sixteen years ago, during Mayor
Hatch's term, a man who lived at No. 4G
| Water street was shot and Killed Dy p
liceman Pursell. The shot, however
was intended for another man.
Zeke Archie was arraigned before
Judge Wilson this morning, who chah ged
the charge against him from murder 70
manslaughter, and held him in - 00(
bail until his examination, October II.