The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-25
MURDER MOST FOUL!

A poMICF, AND HIS BRAINS SCATTERED
ABOUT THE Roo,i---yHE DIABoIICAI. WORK
OF A Jealous NEGRO--FuLL PARTICULARS
On the corner Of Commercial avenue and
Twenty eighth street, in this city, is large,
dilapdated, two story frame building,
From the circumstance that portion of
the lumber used in the construction of the
building, is full of anger, holes, the struc-
ture is known rs
THE HOLE. IN -THE-wALL.'
The building is occupied by a half dozen
or more colored men and women, and is
the known resort Of prostitutes. The
frequenters of the house are of the lower
class of negroes, including large per-
centum of river men; and the stories that
gain currency of the dissipation, debauch-
cry, fights and frolics in which these fire.
quenters, joined by the inmates,
are said to indulge, are numerous
and of the most shameful and debasinc
character. AS the building is rather
isolated, and there are but few families
in the neighborhood to be annoyed or dis
turbed by the oft-recurring orgies of the
place, the participants have escaped the
penalties TO which they have so frequently
rendered themselves liable.
DIsGRACEFUL AND DAMNING,
however, as the carryings-on under the roof
of the "Hole-in-thc-Wall hitherto have
been. 1t was reserved for last Sunday to cap
sheaf the infamy of the place by most
FIENDIsH AND DIABoLICAL MURDER.
About o'clock we met Sheriff Hodges
in the vicinity of the court house, and with
the remark, you'll have occasion for an
extra BULLETIN in the morning." he placed
in our hands an ordinary chopping axe,
the poll of which was thickly
sMEARED WITH BLOOD AND BRAINS.
In answer to our inquiries he informed
us that negro man had been MUIR
dered at the corner of Twenty-eighth street
and Commercial, and that he had the muir
derer confined in jail. We Immediately re-
paired to the spot indicated, and found the
house. the sidewalk and street in front,
crowded with men, women and children,
the blacks largely predsminating. Learn
ing where the body could be found, we
reached the second floor of the building
over filthy, rickety fight ofstairs that led
directly to door of room in which had
gratherd dozen or more of negro women,
most Of them
RAGGED AND BEGRIMEp WITH FILTH,
and as many as five or six of them smoking
the foulest tobacco pipes that ever offended
decent human nostrils. Gaming the mid
die Of this room We stood facing the door
| communicating with the room in which the
murder had been committed. The room
was so compactly jammed with men and
women, black and white, that we hcsitatcd
to enter, lest there should be 'ietting go"
of the old timbers that supported the floor,
and sudden disastrous "letting- down" Of
the surging mass that filed it. Finally,
summoning the required strength of will
and stomach, we squeezed our way to the
bed, around which circle of men and wo-
men were tightly wedged, and there, straight
cned out upon the outer covering Of the
bed was the bloody body Of the negro man,
Carter Newman, who had been
MURDERED WHERE HE WAS LYING,
less than two hours before.
Putting together the answers We re-
ceived TO inquiries, we are enabled to give
the following version Of the affair which
will, we think, prove generally correct
Living in the "lIole.in-the wall" was a
middle-aged negro man named Charley
Glass. lie kept, and sometimes ackrowl
edged as his wife, a negro woman, about
twenty-five years Of age, who is known by
the name Of Ruth Brown. Carter New.
man was steamboat roust-a-bout, and
arrived in Cairo, few days ago, on the
John A, Scudder, and had been in tn,
habit of taking his meals with Glass, VIII,
had known him from boyhood Rutl
Brown being about the house much o
her time, Newman soon obtained a FOOTING
of familiar terms with her, and Glass be
came jealous, On Thursday last h
worked himself INTO a furious passion, an,
attempted to chastise Ruth for her alleged
infdciity to him; but Newman beng OF
hand, lnterfered, and Ruth escaped bu
Glass blood was up, and he sworc by every
, thing sacred that
, BLOOD SHOULD WASH OUT
the insults and disgrace that had, that day
I been put upon him. These threats wer,
supposed to be the vaporings Of an anyr,
p man, and recollection of them scareel,
, survived their utterancc.