The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-01-19
KILLED WITH A SPADE.
A St. Giles Waiter Crushes Anoth-
er's Uranium.


Considerable excitement pre-
vailed last Monday about noon
when 1t became known that col
ored waiter at the st. Giles had
killed another waiter in the kitchen
with a spade. Wiley Rodes and
George Howard, two copper colored
young men aged about twenty years,
were employed as walters at the st.
Giles. Monday morning at break
fast Wiley went into the cook room
for toast for boarder and while
he was fixing it about the stove
George came in for something also.
Wiley was in his way and he told
him to get away. Wiley responded
CURLY and George told him if he
didn't get out ofthc way he would
chunk the life out Of him. They
c commenced then to quarrel, but it
was Of such common occurrence
that no one noticed them much,
The woman employed in the kitch
en- says that In the midst OF their
quarreliug George turned his back
towards Wiley, she thought, to get
a heavy iron poker just out of his
reach and as he did so Wiley
grabbed an old spade used about
the kitchen and struck George on
the right side of the head near the
crown. George fell but Immediate
ly got up and went to a basin and
washed his face and hands and Wi
ley went on waiting upon the table.
Those who saw it thought George
was not hurt badly. He went out
of the kitchen and into a servants
room in the rear, as was afterwards
ascertained. An hour or more after
wards another boy happened to go
into the servants room and found
him lying upon The bed 9n big face;
He turned him over and at once
saw he WAS badly hurt and he went
to Mr.. jackson, the proprietor, and
told him. Mr.. Jackson went to see
him and seeing his condition at
once sent for Br ALI Abernathy,
When the doctor came he found
the boy in a dying condition, his
extremities paralysed, pupils di
lated and gasping for breath. He
thought perhaps the fractured
bones were bearing upon the brain
and that he might relieve him by
raising them and he sent for DR.. G.
G. Abernathy to assist in the oper-
alton, but the boy died in few
minutes. Wiley was arrested as
soon as the boy was found to be
dangerously hurt by Officer Rainey
and taken before Esq. Alexander,
who committed him to Jail to await
the result. When Howard died
Esq. Alexander, acting coroner,
summoned a jury and held an in
quest. Under direction of the jury
DR.. ALI. Alternately made post
mortem examination, assisted by
DR.. S. S. Sumpter and DR.. Will
Bramlett, removing the scalp and
saving into the skull. They found
the skull fractured from near the
crown down behind his ear and
nearly to the base of the skull
about four inches. They also
found the middle meningeal artery
ruptured, and also two smaller ones,
and they had emitted blood upon
the brain until a clot as large as an
egg had formed, and pressing upon
the brain it caused paralysis and
death. This is the substance of the
facts as developed before the jury,
upon which they founded the fol
lowing
VERDICT.
STATE OF TENN.,l An inques
GILES COUNTY. holden at Pu-
laski in the county of Giles and
state aforesaid on the 10th day of
January, 1882, before w. F. Alex
ander, j. p, acting in the absence
Of the coroner, upon the body of
George Howard there lying dead,
by the jurors whose names are here
to subscribed, who upon their oaths
do say: That deceased came to
his death Dec. 10th, 1882, about II
or l o'clock p. M, from the effect of
a blow inflicted upon his head with
an iron spade in the hands of one
Wiley Rodes, the deceased dying
about four hours after receiving
said blow. j. G. ROBERTS,
/. II. RAINEY.
GUY SUMTER,
VIM. RICE,
L. II. MEREDITH,
r. NJ. BUGG, jr.,
II. G.. Crow.
George Howard was a slender
yellow boy who came from Hunts
vile about two months ago. 1t IS
said he was disposed to be quarrel
some. Wiley is the quick stepping
little fellow who plays the banjo in
his fathers string bsnd-Will
Rodes. The facts do not show any
generalization or malice. The
shovel is an old one with broken
handle and weighs pounds and o.
ounces. He struck him with the
fat side evidently, as there was no
cut, which must have been the case
if the edge had struck him. The
mother of the dead boy was mott
fed by telegram at Huntsville and
she ordered the remains shipped.
Wiley is in Jail, after a preliminary
trial Tuesday evening. 1t is not