Evening journal., 1891-08-25
ANOTHER PENINSULA TRAGEDY.
Thomas Thompson Piunges a Knife Into
The Heart of William Adams, Causing
Instant Death


Thomas Thompson Piunges Knife Into
The Heart of William adams. Causing
Instant Death.
CHEsTERTowN, Md, August "a --In
Chestertown on Saturday night William
Adams, colored, twenty four years old
was stabbed TO the heart on the street
and died instantly. A jury Of inquest on
/ Sunday morning ELECTED from witnesses
that the stabbing was done by Tom
: Thompson. col0red, and was q cold
blooded deed. Oae of the witnesses
Eliza Chambers, cnlored, said she
and Thomas Lankford were going
down town together, and were
overtaken by Tom Thompson, WHO
asked, Did you see man 60 down this
wayr Eliza answered In the affirmative
aud Thomps ms reply was, well, am
going to stab him, using some very
coarse language in connection with the
threat Eizs said she ran to see what
be was going to do. The man he was
after was William Adams The witness
Continued. Tom ran up alongside OF
| Adams and struck him In the left breast
with knife. / did not hear either Of
them say anYthlng, but saw Adams drop
and Thompson run up the street The
woman's companion, Thos. Landlord, ties.
tilted that he saw Thompson run past him
after the 1tabblng. he was still uttering
threats. Fanny Mitchell. colored, testi-
fed to having seen Adams ia company
with Thompson a short while before the
homicide. and saw them separate
Thompson going up town and Adams
going down town. secky Medford col
ored, said Adams had been going to her
house, tom, she said went to the
house next to mine and called for Kate
and said understand You have been
going with this man. and 4 am going TO
fix him tonight. and then walked on.
DR. Dodd who made post .mortem ex-
aminstion, found that the third and
fourth ribs were cut clean In two, while
the walls Of the heart were pierced. The
victims death was instantaneous
Consaables Kelley and Jones, who
reached the scene OF the tragedy soon
after the st4bbinP, found the man lying
on his side with a cigar one half
smoked between his fingers, while his
coat hung over his left arm. He was
about five feet nine inches In height
aud came from Baltimore, although his
parents live in Salisbury. He had very
little money IN his pockets, aud had been
picking peaches during the past two
weeks for Arthur Brown. He was but
little known here
Tom Thompson, charged with the
homicide, has been living in Chester.
town all his life He Is about "a years
old, six feet two iucbes tall, spare build.
quick, nervous movement. weighs 175
pounds, large boncd aud muscular very
black, large eyes, with a great deal Of
white large mouth. thick lips and very
large hands and feet. He quickly made
his escape from Chestertown and tele-
grams were sent in all directions to SCI.
cure his arrest So quietly was the
stahbiug done that persons sitting out
side on porches fifty feet away did not
know Of IT, The moon WAS shining
brightly and most Of the colored people
were away from the locality where the
ARRAY took place.
Thompson Captured
Il was reported this morning that
Thomas Thompson had been arrested Ia
Smyrna. aud was being held to await the
action Of the Maryland authorities.