Evening journal., 1889-05-13
THE MURDERED NEGRO.
EVIDENCE OF EYE-WlTNEsSES AT
THE coRONER'S INQUEST.

Conflicting Evidence as 10 Who Struck
the First BLOW q The Negroes Body
Buried.
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the
coroner's inquest in the case of Samuel
Edwards. who was murdered by the
Italian. Salvador Papio, on Saturday
afternoon. was held. A large crowd of
colored people and lockers on. attracted
by curiosity, surrounded the coroner S
Office. The following jury was en-
panelled by Coroner Gamble: William r.
Long, foreman. Walter Yeager. secre
tary; f. T. knight, James Mcguire,
Alexander Whitcraft, Peter A. Pagan,
John Wagner, Harrie T. Price, George
H. MARBLE, James Il. Dayton.
Aftor viewing the body at the morgue
the testimony of the following witnesses
was heard Annie Johns. Dellah Haz-
zard, Richard G. Cooper, Alexander
Whortenbury, William H. Jackson,
Frank jackson. Elijah Clark Jacob
Reed, all colored and j. T. McWhorter
Manuel Richenberger, Sewell B. Scott,
James Rowe, Frank NJ Robb and Lewis
H. Townsend.
The testimony of all was somewhat
contradictory as far as the details are
| concerned. The negroes all swore that
the Italian struck the first blow, while
the white men asserted that the Italian
seemed to be acting in self-defense.
The testimony of Richard d. Cooper,
colored, which follows, was about that
of all the colored witnesses. He said
"a young man named Harris had a
bunch of fish in his hand. He wanted to
leave them at the store a while. The
Italian said he would give Edwards 10
cents for them. They conversed. Ed
wards said 81 would not talk with you
long, before | would hit you They
again exchanged words. The eolored
man threatened the Italian with his fist
AT this the Italian caught up the date
pick, and struck at Edwards who went
into the street and picked up a brick.
Both faced each other When / looked
again the Italian advanced and struck
him three times, once in the head and
saw the blood fly. The Italian retained
the pick in his hand until it was taken
away from him. The men clinched and
the colored man threw the Italian, who
drove the weapon in his stomach agaiI
as he was going down. The colored mar
was on top.
The evidence of Manuel Richenbergei
was correlated by all the white men who
testified as follows.
Il sawlthe Italian trying to persuade
the darkey to 60 away from his place O
business. The darkey resisted. The ltal
ian made several fruitless attempts to ge
him to go away. Finally the Italian madi
pass at the darkey with his hand
Again he made a pass with the pick
Then the darkey threw the stone. TIL,
Italian lodged. II was part Of cobbl,
stone. Edwards had the stone in hi
hand from the start. IThey then scufiied
They struck at each other. When the,
got to the middle of the street, the Ital
ian turned back toward his stand ant
the colored man kicked him two or thre
times. Then the Italian turned ON hin
and they clinched The Italian wa
thrown. The colored man fell on top
then thought it time that the matte
was stopped, and took hold of the eolore
man. The Italian had such a grip on tn
pick that l could not get it away iron
him until assisted by two others"
After hearing the testimony the iur
i adjourned until z 30 o'clock this evening
when the testimony of Doctors Syringe
and Wallace, who made the post mortel
examination, will be heard The bod
of Edwards was buried in the Potter
: field yesterday afternoon.
Papio is sick from the effect of h
bruises and from worry and grief owe
his crime. Dr. Wallace is attendin
! him.