The morning news., 1889-04-13
KILLED HIM FOR A DEVIL
PRINCE LAWS FEARFUL sAoRI-
FICR OF HIS LITTLE SON.

A Crazy Negro Drives His Family
rom Home and Stays His Own Boy
on His Door Step - Desperate
Struggle to Capture the Murderer
The Coroner's Investigation and
the Jurys Verdict.
Coroner Dixon held an inquest over the
body of the 7-year- old ls d who was beaten
TO death by his father. Z rince Law, on the
Springfield plantation, day before yester-
day. An account OF the killing was
given in the MORNING News yesterday.
The inquest was held at the Georgia
infirmary, where the dead cody Of the boy
had been taken. The folio wing were i'm
paneed as jurors: r. W. N!cNish, Henry
Ernst, o. H Yates, T.. E. Ryan, J. e.
Campos, NJ. g. Helmken, and Thomas c.
Madison,
The verdict was that the child came to its
death by blows by Law.
Alice Law, the wife of the insane man,
was the first witness before the jury. She
said that her husband was taken sick Sun
day, and that a physician was sent for.
The next day Law betrayed mental weak
ness and his mind wandered. Two days
later be grew considerably worse and became
desperate and wanted to kill her and the
children. He called them devils and said
that be was going to kill all of them. He
would hide behind the doors and in the cor
ners and spring out at them when they
passed Afraid that he might kill them
sure enough she ran away from the house
with the children.
AFRAID TO 90 NEAR HIM.
In the early afternoon of Thursday Law
became raving crazy, and nobody could go
near the house. In the middle of the af-
ternoon everything seemed quiet around
the place, and supposing that he was asleep,
she sent the 7-year-old child over to the
house to get some rice. She did not see the
lad again until he was beaten to insensi-
bility,
william jackson, the other witness, said
that he was Just returning from work when
he saw the boy 90 up on the steps IN front
Of the house in which Law was. JIRG as he
went to open the door, Law threw the
door open, and with a large piece of scant-
ling in his hand, he knocked him fthe boyl
of the steps. After knocking him down.
he jumped off Of the step, and dealt hdIn
two more heavy blows on the heed. Jack
son said that he turned, and ran back after
an officer.
The officer on duty at the police barracks
was notified and patrolman Prendible was
sent out with the ambulance When the
policeman reached the neigtiborhood he
saw q white man and tried to get him to
assist in arresting the negro.
A DESPERATE srRUGG;LE.
The man refused, saying that the negro
was crazy, and he would kill them both
Policeman Prendible went on to arrest the ne
gro. He broke in the door, which was locked,
and the moment he entered, thenegro sprang
from behind it and clutched the officers
revolver The policeman closed in on him
and scuffls ensued. The negro is mus
cular fellow, aud if he had wrenched the
club or the pistol from the officer he would
have used it. During the scuffle two
colored men ran to the policeman's assist
anoe and the negro was arrested. Assisted
by the colored men, the officer bound Law
hand and foot and placed him in the am
bulAnce and took him to the barracks
Officer Prendible said thEtt the boy which
had been beaten lay at the foot of the step,
in an insensible and in apparently dying
condition.
1t is thought that Law Urent crazy on the
subject OF religion. He Eold the coroner,
Ia Jail, that he killed his child because the
whole family had turned TO devil& The
child was taken from the infirmary by the
family and buried yesterday afternoon.
Law is confined in a cen in the barracks
Jail and keeps up an almost incesSant yell.