Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-30
CRIMINA AL NEWS.
Gathered from Various Portions
of the Country.

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CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, December 2S.
"A special to the Times gives an
account OF q terrible tragedy which
occurred this morning at BelIef0nt,
Ala, a small station on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad. Al miles
from this city, resulting in the prob
able fatal shooting OF G. NJ, Fe rel.
". D. Martin aud his son John
They are the only merchants in the
place, and the difficulty originated
IN jealousy The weapons used
were pistols.
MACON, GA, December 26.--At
r und Oak, Jones County, 40 miles
from here, young f,rmer named
jack VIM. Gray, intetferred with a
negro dance Monday night, and WAS
fatally stabbed by three negro broth
ers, b Jb. Henry and Alex Jackson.
Gray fred int the brothers, killing
ali three, one dying On the spot, one
before reaching the door, and the
other a few hours later. Gray
crawled out of the house and died
on the steps.
! ATLANTA, December 27.-Yesterday,
at Debray, III Upson County, a
general hgh5 occurred, in which
Dock Wilson killed Ed. Johnson, his
halfbrOther, and Brad Garland
killed A. P. Harris. The fight was
with knives. There was murder
committed at the same town some
weeks ago,
To-day, General VIM McRae,
superintendent OF the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, resigned, and
Robert Anderson was elected to I'LL
tle vacancy. Joseph M. Brown, son
of Senator Brown has been made
general freight agent.
Elijah Whitehead was killed by
Turner Sutton, at Hawkinsville,
Pulaski County, yesterday Both
were negroes
New ORLEANS, December 2S Mrs.
NJ F. Cappage was killed last night
by the accidental discharge of q pis-
tOl with which her oldest child was
playing She had been instructing
the child how to aim the weapon, and
sat down on the floor to play, when
the child aimed the pistol and fired,
the bail entering her brain. No one
knew that the pistol was loaded.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December Is
Ed. Helms, negro murderer, who,
with six others, recently escaped from
the Hernando Miss Jail, was killed
this morning by Chief of Police
W. G. Davis. Helms, with three
Others, were making for the Arkansas
shore, when they were interct pied
by Chief Davis, with Cap aims
Hackett and Oliver, also of the 30 ic
force, When Helms was COM
manded to halt, he endeavored to
shoot, but his gun missed IRE. Chief
Davis then fired with fatal effect.
Helms and his party were well
armed with shot-guns and pistols,
Ills companions were captured and
and lodged in the station house.
CINCINNATI, O, December ga
special from Gore, Ohio, says the
authorities placed guard about the
house of Mrs. Terrell, who was assas-
sinated lastnight to prevent the oblit-
Grafton of the tracks of the assassin.
AS soon as daylight came they traced
the assassin to the residence of Mr..
Arnold, farmer, and arrested Nor
gan Richard, one of Arnold g. farm
hands, as the criminal. He was armed
with revoivers which had one empty
chamber. He resisted arrest, but
was overpowered and placed il q
wagon and driven rapidly to Logan
to Jail, barely escaping lynching. No
motive for the crime has been dis
covered.
NORFOLK, December 28.-Informrr
ton has been received of threat
saing riot at Plymouth, N. G.