Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-08
that it had been more roughly treated.
The child was taken TO the almshouse.
The arrest was made by Officer Swee.
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THE CAREYPERKINS CASE.
A Post -Mortem Exsminatisu Held Hattie
Cnrey Accused Of the Murder.


Coroner Taylor made a post-mortenl
examination at the almshouse yester-
day Of the body Of the colored woman
named Maria Perkins, who died there
Wednesday morning. The following is
extracted from the evidence given be-
fore the Coroner:
Susan Gwynn sworn and deposed |
live at No. 1914 Catherine street. On
Friday two weeks ago sent Hattie
Carey to Robertson's grocery-store on
kenney street. Hattie and the deceased
afterwards came together to my house.
They were quarrelling when they came
in. Maria stopped quarrelling and
Hattie jumped at her and showed her
out Of the house, and said she was GO
ing to cut her. | saw her take knife
from her pocket, and then went out
and put her out of the gate. 1t
was a wooden-handle pocket-knife
with two blades. put Hattie out Of
the yard and went into the house.
Pretty soon aiterward Maria came into
the house and asked me to shut the
door, as Hattie had cut her all to pieces.
| then looked out of the window and
saw Hattie going out of the yard. She
had the knife in her hand, but not open.
when | put her out Of the gate. The
time between when | put Hattie out
and when Maria told me she was cut
was not longer than | could take the
iron. from the stove and clean il off.
was ironing shirt at the time. know
the woman now lying here dead is
Maria Perkins.
The evidence Of Emiline Taylor, an
other colored woman, living at 1914
Catherine street, is substantially the
same as the above.
f. |. Brannan. after being sworn,
said : am policeman at the Third
police-station. was on duty on Fri
day, April oath, and was called at 5:l5
p. NJ. to Latimer's drugstore, corner of
Gilmer and Marshall streets, and there
found the deceased, Maria Perkins,
whose dead body now fully identify
here. She was baby cut and much
exhausted from loss of blood. She
said that Harriet or Hattie Carey
had cut her, and she told me that
Susan Gwynn and Emiline Taylor saw
the cutting. After the arrest of Harriet
Carey she told me that she had cut
Maria, but it was only with a small
knife used for cleaning the iinger-nails.
She said that in the scutlle the knife was
knocked over in the next yard.
Policeman Fraysier testified that he,
with the assistance of Mr.. Waldron,
arrested Harriet Carey, and that she
acknowledged to them that she cut
Maria Perkins twice, but that deceased
followed her, abused and struck her
twice with stick before she cut her.
He said further that he asked her for
the knife, and she said it was a little
bit of a thing, and she had thrown it
over the lot.
DR.. Macon, in his testimony. said ;
" The cause of death was pneumonia,
the result Of penetrating wound of
the right lung. She also had an incised
wound in the left arm and one on the
middle finger of the left hand, which,
however, were not Of serious ma
ture."
The jury returned the following ver-
dict She came to her death the 9th
day Of May, 1885, from wound in the
right lung inflicted on the oath day Of
April, 1885, by Harriet Carey"