Daily Republican., 1881-05-19
SITTING A BRUTAL CRIME,
STRONG PROOF OF ATWOOD CAR.
PENTER's GUILT.
The COrOner's Jury Find the Case
rs Shocking as RepOs ted-An
ExhumatiOn OF the Body
Ordered.

, declaring her death was caused by A
!, wood Carpenter violence. The swol
! testimony was most positive. II
charges made by the REPUBLICAN rel
resentative were SuhStantiated with
surprising degree of positiveness, an
the probability that the girl had til
smallpox was no stronger than betor,
The jury met at two o'clock. All til
members were present
DIR. BLOCKsoM's STATEMENT.
DIR. j. T. V. BloclIsom was the frs
witness. His statement was fuller an
more explicit than that published i
these columns yesterday. He stated t
the jury That in the afternoon of las
Monday week Il cOlOred woman (MrS
SMITH came to his office and asket
him to attend her daughter. He sen
her medicine, intending TO call mex
day. Word came at ll.30 o'clock OF
Tuesday that the girl was worse and, Il
II. 10 O'Clock he called at the house
She complained of u head ache, bacl
ache and pain in her side. Her tongue
was coated and eruptions were on hel
| forehead, back and side. These wart
quite slight. On either side Of the chir
under the skin he noticed slight blue
spots They were smallpox symp.
toms. He heard no talk of the girl hav-
ing been abused and saw no signs of vio-
lence, except discolorations under the
eyes. He was unable to decide that it
was smallpox, but those We're, in his
opinion, smallpox symptoms, and there
had been a case of the disease in the
same block. He told Mrs. Smith that
he con d not say what allied the girl un-
til th" next day.
"That evening"" went on the doctor,
tarpcnter came TO me and said that
the girl was dead | was very much
surprised to hear this, and concluded
that it was one of those sudden cases.
Considering the symptoms which pre-
sente0 themselves | wrote Il smallpox
certiticme.'
"Did you report the case to the Clerk
Of the Board OF Health after you return
ed from your Wis: that afternoon ,,''
asked 4 juryman.
"No, | did not As said, | was not
certain and concluded to wait tn" de
Telopment Of the disease, and II il
was smallpox report it on the next
day. said in n report to eClerh that
believed it to be smallpox. j."
MALIGNANT SMALL-PON.
"Would smallpox bring on a hemor-
rhage "'' asked another physician.
There was no talk to me Of a hemor-
'hage, Sometimes smallpox patients
10 nave hemorrhages in malignant
'aSes. did not think this Il danger
)uS case, was the reply.
DR.. BloCksOm then went on TO state
hat patients sometimes do die sudden |
y of smallpox, and that he did not eX-
'ect The girl to die SO soon. His prac-
ical knowledge Of smallpox was linn
ted. He also assured the Jury that be
Iad no completely IN the case, which no
ne has suspected rs Dr.. BloCksom is
bove such reproach.
Sarah Smith, (colorel) the mother of
he dead girl, was the next witness.
he said Clara went away to market
hat night feeling very we'll, and came
ome at 1890 o'clock, crying and
When witness asked her
that was the matter, she replied, "Oh,
lother,
AR NEARLY XII LED ME
'-night, and want to sue him. He
eat and kicked me clear down 30 the |
raveI yard, where he struck and kicked
e two times and kicked me again at
nthrie's carriage shop in the back,
nj stomach and side. She waStaken
ck that night ut T. o'clock, and wit :;
'Ss thought she had the small-nOx as j.
ere had been a case in that row. :,
hen the doctor came on Tuesday he
id he could not tell if it was small
'N, but would come next day, and if .
proved to he that disease she must !.
nd her to the hospital He told her r. r.
ere was no danger aS yet OF any one
tching it from her, and that she need
It move the clothing out. half an "
ur after the doctor left the girl com %
enced to spit mp blood and continued :,
do so until she died. IL
Mrs. Smith went on to say that Carpen- II
: came after the girl was dead, having u
en- told Of the event and asked if she '
Is dead, and she told him that he had "
He'd her. He cried and said he didn't :"
d went away ut O'Clock, returning ,
. o'clock with the doctors 'prescrip- - -
~" stating that she had died ofback ~
all-poX. He had her crQuickly buried. - -
why" asked Il jU yman, "did yen N IL
tell the doctor Of the girl being beat H. L.,
i told the lady at the house when d"
mt Iur him on Monday that she had
N beaten Saturday night and |
'ught that was enough and that he at
uld see what was the matter. III
Fnrther examination brought ont the Il
portant point that the girl always
| pimples on her forehead, and that
lie sick she complained of the kicks
her stomach and when she had pains
uld say, ooh, mGther, my stomach" a.
ARpENTER's CHRONIC CRUELTY. a
lrs. Smith also stated that the glrl -
at times complained of Carpenter III
ting her, and that lately she had pa
n afraid of him. They had quarrel o;!' ,!
for long time, and it got so that s'li
could not send her to market alone
fear of him, and she would not have
her to market that Saturday night
Y Martha Jones went with her. She wi
to go to and fro with Clara from i've
II iol ohU Shllt iedSOIl. SlbrI nnu lpI
Nc children by Carpenter but was not ma
ente when she died. On Monday Gin
penter came to the house and said oul
ley were goingt to sue him they would suc
e him to catch. xo,
THE GIRLS STATEMENT. We
AIRY Brown, (col.) who lives in TO
hrie's row, testified that on Monday DEL
went up to see the sick girl. She
od her how she felt ?'T feel awful
!" was the answer, "my head aches Y
have pain in my back and side not
stomach. am certain it is from eitl
beating 'Ab' gave me Saturday and
It, He kicked me in the side and best
( and stomach, and hit me on the in t
|. Mother don't know how bad viii
hurt me-" She did not mention cha
she thought she had the smallpox and
le witness, and said that after the
ing she commenced to throw up.
CARPENTERS THREATS. that
lrtha Ann Jones, (coL,) testified pie
on SATURDAY. night she and William mod