Daily Republican., 1881-05-18
THE CARPENTER CASE.
THE MEETING OF TIE CORO.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
No Important Witnesses Ex ed
The Statement Made by Dr.
BIOcks0m This Morning.

Coroner Weldin's jury of inquiSitiol
into the death OF the color
ed girl Clara Smith, alleged to have
been caused by Atwood Carpenter, me
last evening in the private office Of tn,
Chief of Police, aud got fairly down t,
work. Attorney General Gray wa.
present
II. $. Brown, city editor Of the RE
rUBLICAS, was the first witness. He
stated that the case had come to his at,
tention Monday morning, and he had
| Investigated it. He laid the suspicious
facts before Coroner Wedin and DR..
Ogle and they were both of the opinion
that the case ought to be investigated.
| Witness accordingly sworc out war
rant for Carpenter arrest be ore the
| Coroner.
Sarah Crawford, .(col. sworn:-On
the night Of the beating, Saturday
night week., had just gone over Mar
ket street bridge with William Davis
when man and woman came along,
and Davis said, ''look there" ! heard
the woman scream and just then he
dragged her into the yard and strike
her. don't know what he struck her
with. She cried out to Davis, "man
come and take my part" They came
out of the yard in minute and went ON
up toward Guthrie's row, he dragging
her along, and heard her crying.
VIM. Davis, (col.) sworn:--l went
with the preceding witness over
tho bridge. | saw Carpenter alW
the Smith girl coming over
che bridge. He Was dragging her
along, and pulled her into the yard and
Int her in the head. | heard the blow.
After they came out of the yard, Ono
one pulled Carpenter otf,) he dragged
her up the road again and | heard
her cry out. They turned into the lane
ut Rohinson's shops and ! heard her
scream loudly. Carpenter came back
Witness followed Carpenter and laugh
ingly threatened to give him some,
when he declared that no woman should
call him IL Car
penter also said if they wanted to catch
him, presumably for beating the girl,
they would have 10 be quick, for he
was going away on the next train. Wit
ness knew Of one case of smallpox
having been in the row Of houses in
which Clara lived.
No other witnesses were present, ana |
the jury adjourned to meet this after
noon at = o'clock.
A FUNNY MISTAKE.
Connected with the absence of the
witnesses was II rather funny incident. |
The witnesscsin the case had gone to DR.. |
Ogle'S Ltlice instead OF to the City Hail, |
and sf-,pIintT "A a .rnNyI h,,t,
the door when the doctor hurried by on |
his way to the inquest. the office boy
stated by mistake that the crowd was
waiting 10 be vacCinatcd. "Tell them
to go home, then 'Said the doctor, and
come back tomorrow afternoon. $50
Lhey went homc, and i'll consequences no
witnesses OF Importance were exam
ned.
DIR. BLoCKS0M'S STATEMENT.
DR.. BlOckSOm arrived home at il late
l0nr last night. and made the following
statement To IL RErUBLICA& reporter
his morning: "Whem went to see the
,irl Clara smith | stripped her and
made careful and thorough cXaniAa-
ion, and found no marks Of violence
'NCcpt uiorUlUratiOn under both ewes,
which were considerably bruised
over her breast were half
lozcn small, half formed pimples, and
here werr.a number utthcse pllnpIcs ON
Ter turchrad think and Thought then {
hat she had the ,mail-poY, and told, the I
mother there wuUld be no danger from )
ontagiOn for two or three days. The :
mother in telling me the symptoms sand
he girl was suffering with Il headache, |
pain i'll th" back OF the head and II q
but She told me nothing d
bout her having had any h"morrhagr, i
nd did not mention hrr splitting biood.
he said that she had had trouble on
atuTday evening with hrr'young man a
ut beyond that she said nothing that :,
'ould lead him to suppose that she had
rceived any injury other than that un,
cr her left eye" j