Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-13
ANOTHER MURDER.
Causey Street Redeems Hts Decaying
Reputation by a.Deed
OF acknowledgements and Fatal Fight
with Knives.


Cansey street, whose reputation for
bloody deeds has been suffering consider
AMY VI iate, was relieved about 6 80 O'Clock
last night by bloody homicide. No eye
witnesses to the difficulty could be seen
last night, and as the story of the accused,
Nelson Dwyer, colored, who surrendered
himself to the authorities, tallies very near
ly with ctirrent reports, it is perhaps the
best account that can now be given
sWellj'' lie said TO the REPORTER, "Dick
Varnells has been talking to his wife about
lovin' colored woman named Jennie,
who lives across the street from him, at
Al Causey street. Last night Jennie was
standing in Mrs. Mitchell's yard talking to
fellow named Bill Lucas, and Dick says to
me, 'Sid'-they cali me Kid for shert-'go
over and tell Jennie il Lou goes over there
to raise. a fuss not to mind her. 1 went over
there and told ieniiie, and Fill srcke up
ana says KID, you are friend of mine,
amt you? If you are, go about your
business and don't meddle with Lou and
Jennie told Bill reckoned 1 was his
friend and he began to curse me. L told
him to go away and let me alone, but he
kept on, and | spoke up pretty rough.
Soon as did that he pulled long barlow
from his POCKET and made j dash at me
and cut me on the jaw. Then he made
another lunge and stabbed me in the side.
l got out my knife at once but he
"MENpEp his LICK
three or four times. Then / made pass
with my knife and cut him, but it fell out
of my hand. Somebody picked it up and
gave it to me, but Bill had run off. l live
close by and went home, but was bleeding
so | went to DR.. Gordon's Office to get my
wCHnds dressed. He wouldn't do it, and
l went tc Or, Whites, on the corner OF
fernando and Pea,e. Sam Gardner
followed me, and while We We're
waiting for the doctor somebody
came in and said Bill was
dead. broke and run and got away from
Sam. | walked all the way out to the fair
grounds, but the blood was spouting out
all over me and l came back toward town.
| stopped at one place and tried to get
some relief, but the man wouldn't let me
in. Then | walked on to the head of
Vance street ami got in q ear and told a
man all that happened, and he came on
with me to the stationhouse. | knew /
had done no more than defend myself"
Dwyer is cut in six places, as he states,
one on the under lip, four times about
the face and neck and once in the side.
THERE Is ANOTHER STORY
10 the effect that only one knife was used
and that was Dwyer's; that after Dwver
tried to stab Lucas, the latter snatched
the weapon from him, inflicting the six
wounds, lost possession of the knife again
and received the stab which caused his
death. He ran about two squares, to the
| corner of st. Martin and Linden, where he
fell from the loss OF blood. He was picked
up and put in a drag by Officer
Faver, but died before reaching the sta
tionhouse. He received only one wound
"a stab in the stomach, deep and wide,
from which the blood flowed in a torrent.
He was laid out on the floor of the station
house and a jury summoned by JUS
tice Quigiey, which rendered verdict in
accordance with the above.