Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-14

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A Baltimore Telegram OF sunday says
About @ v'clock Friday evening q colored
man brought 10 the Maryland University.
on Lombard street, the body OF white
woman and left II With Anderson Perry.
the coiofed jsnitor. saving be would call
aRsin for the els. the price agreed upon.
The body was taken 10 be prepared FOR
Keeping until needed for dissection. but II
Nas found that the head was horribly
crushed and fhat there were two wounds ~
the left breast, and The police were al once
nolihed. Yesterday pOsf-mortem eSan'-
patton Of abe body was madt, and the pay
sicians stated positively that thc wounds
were maze SITTER death, leaving the infer
eDoe thai IL was simply a case OF body
sna,chIng, and that the work had been done
by q NOVICE.
To-day, however. the body was identified
as tia, Of Emily Brown. wonin sixty
Year of age, HhO Tor The past six months hi"
been boarding With cOlorcd family IN The
western section OF the city. She wa -
dissipatcd habits, and lived on what she
could h,g. She was Mt her home three hnur-
before Der body was brought 10 the nj
yersity. aud IL j. now evident that she was
bruia'lv muIdered for the price her BODY
woulC bring Tor use on the dissecang. Ia
bic.
Perry, the janitor who received The
body, denies that he ever saw the wOnlu,
hui be Is SHOWN 10 have been a hoarder Il
the same house, and u have eaten break
fast with her on the morning OF her MUIR
Ger. He was to-day arrested a. accessory
20 the crIIDe.
Late tonight John Ross and Albert Ildv-
kins Doth colOred) we're arrested. and con-
f,sSed 10 having killed the woman 81 The IN
siieatiOn OF Janitor Perry. They folloGct
her TO her room, ana Ross smashed her
head with n brick. while HIwsins held her
and stabbed her through the heart with a
knife. They then carried the body 70 the
University in a bag furnished by Perry,
who received il and shaved the head to
make Identification difficult. The BLOODY
clothing was thrown into tub Of dirty
wafer. Ross also boarded IN the house vita
the unfortunate woman. The price TO be-
obtained for the body was the sole OBJECT
OF tie murder
by Associated Press-I
BALTIMORE, December l3.-The coro-
ncr's jur, TO-DAY investigated the death Oi
Elni'v Brown. whose body wa carried TO
the Maryland University last Friday night
and sold for use IN the disSectug-rOom.
The evidence adduced and admissions
made by the men under arrest showed that
tho woman was most brutally murdered by
John Ro. and Albert Hawkins, the former
confessing TO having smashed her skull with
q brick, and stating that Hawkins after
wards thrust large knife through her
heart. Ross was perfectly cool while telling
the story, and stated that the mar
der had been deliberately planned ly
himself, Hawkins, and Anderson Perry, the
cOlOrcd janitOr Of the University. and that
the latter had for three weeks been ar-
ranging for the deed. The body Wa
brought warm and bleeding 10 the cOlleg'.
where il WIS received by Perry, who Gid
al be could to destroy what would lead 20
the wOman's identification. such a. cutting
Of and burning the hair and va.hn- tuc
bloody clothing. The men were ac-uated
solely 10y desire to gei the price OF the
body.
The coroner's jury decided, from The
evidence. that Bo>, and Hawke, wer, tle
murderer, and Perry an accessory. aud
win ask The grand JUS 10 indici them.