San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-01
FATALLY KNITTED.
TWO NEGROES DISEMBOWEL
ANOTHER OVER AN
INVASION
Upon the Sacredness of a Home
One ,Killed-Slight Chances
for the Other-The Dead
Mans Wife I'm
der Arrest.

A narrowing, bloody murder was
committed about one o'clock Sunday
morning, at the little home of an in.
dustrious negro, named William Rob.
inson, living on Colorado street,
behind John Fest's store, near the
Fredericksburg road. Que negro was
killed, the other is in the hospital
with very slight chance of re-
covery.
The particulars of the horrible af-
fair. as far as ascertainable. are tina
William Robinson, an empi oye of
Mr.. J. NJ. George, of the street car
company, who was paid a large sum
of money that day by his employer,
returned home at one o'clock Sunday
morning, to find in his wife's room, at
that hour, another negro, Albert
Franklin. A storm was imminent.
Words ensued and the two men left the
room. Then occurred the horrible dis
Enforcement of both parties. Two
knives, it was at first said, were used,
and cuts, blows and stabs were
given and returned. Robinson
who evidently was the less
adept at the work, was
stabbed fearfully about the back, the
breast, the head and neck. A fearful
cash and stab was given him in the
cavity of the stomach and fatal cut
was made fir ON ear to ear severing the
wind pipe, jugular vein and carotaid
artery. Robinson reeled and fell. The
wife of the dead man gathered her
children and fed, shrieking and
screaming. Franklin, the man caught
with Robinson's wife was led to Fest's |
saloon by some colored men who an
swered the wOman's screams. He |
was bleeding, having received fear
full cut across his stomach, exposing
the mans intestines. Meanwhile the |
mounted police had reached the !
scene. They searched the place and |
found the dead body OF Robinson be- |
tween the rails of the I.& G.. n. track,
which runs close by the dead mans |
home. The coroner was summoned,
and some evidence was taken. He |
gave certificate for the burial of
Robinson, stating the cause of death
as murdered by Albert franklin"
The body was then taken to Sheern's /
morgue on Market street, where it |
was dressed for burial. The coroner
thought it best to hold the wife, |
Emma Robinson, as an accessory to |
the crime and she was arrested. |
Franklin was also arrested, but in |
view of his probably fatal wound was
taken to the city hospital.
1t is now learned that the affair was
q more one sided one, and that there |
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broad bladed pocket knife of neither |
any great length or keenness, which
v eapon was taken from the pos |
sion of the murderer. The evidence of
the woman, Emma Robinson, shows |
tered the room, the man with her |
clinched, the fatal struggle beginning !
that in this struggle Robinson |
succeeded in turning; his assailant's
weapon on him, thus infiicting the
Whether the two parties kept up q |
running fight until they reached the
railroad track, where RObinson's
body was found, or whether the fatal
work was done at the shanty, and the
UOuy uIdsSou W luo IdiITOau ITdCk Ny
the murderer and the murdered
mans wife, is not established, but
the latter, for various reasons, is be-
lieved to be the case.
Franklin, the murderer, stated
in the hospital, this morning,
that Robinson assaulted him first,
with the knife, and he wrung it from
him, but Robinson to all appearances
knew nothing of Franklin's presence
until he entered the room when
the cutting and clinching Immediate
ly started.
Robinson, who was about AZ years
| of age, was liked and stood in high
repute as a good Industrious oolored
man, by all parties with whom he
has had dealing. His colored friends
| are making up purse to give
him decent burial. He
leaves q wife, now in jail as
an accessory to the atrocious crime,
and four children. Franklin will re-
main in the hospital until he has inn
proved sufficiently to be placed in the
county jail. He Is still in very bad
condition.