Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-16
ANOTHER MURDER.
Edward smaiiwood Fatally Stabbed Ed
ward Tenney Last Night.

Edward Smaiiwood Fatally Stabbed Ed
ward Tenney Last Night
81 stabbed him, but for what don't know"
were the words Of young colored man named
Edward smallvood, who WAS locked up at the
third precinct station last night on a charge Of
murder. The body Of the dead man. Edward
fenney. was in the corridor. not many feet from
where the prisoner was incarcerated-
Edward Tenney. the victim. was about twenty
two years old and bore a good reputation He
lived near 2Sd street and Pennsylvanis avenue
and was employed as 9 driver by DR.. Suter in
Georgetown
Edward Smallvood is only nineteen years
old, but the police do not give him sgood repu-
tation- He went with a crowd of corner loaf
ers, they say. and has been arrested a number
OF times on such charges as disorderly conduct
throwing stones and engaging In fights.
The BODY FOUND IN An ALLEY.
The police first learned of the homicide
through q colored man named Robert Carter,
who found the body Of the dead man in Gov
eminent alley. Carter was passing through
the alley on his way home when be stumbled
over the mans body. STOPPING TO the ground
he turned the man over to see IL he was drunk,
and to his surprise he discovered that he was
dead
Carter went to the police station and told
they started TO the alley TO bring the body to
the station When they reached the alley the
officers met colored boy named Clarence
Butler. who thought he could identity the man
II the officers would let him see him. The
officers did so, and the boy exclaimed: "Why,
that's Ed Tenney."
The body was removed to the station and the
next thing for the officers was to ascertain
where the fatal encounter took place and who
inflicted the death blow. small wound IN
the left breast just over the heart indicated
that the man had been stabbed to death and
that the blade had penetrated the heart, as he
had died only a short time after be received
the wound
From some Of the colored people in the
neiShborhood the officers learned that the
homicide occurred in a saloon kept by J. ].
Leary. corner goth and l. streets and the affair
happened shortly before the finding of Ten
ney body.
HOW THE ARRAY STARTED.
Between 10 and II o'clock the police met a
party Of colored men in that neighborhood
and several of them had musical instruments.
Thinking the negroes would get into trouble
the officers hesitated few minutes, expecting
TO get a case or two, but the men went ON, and
after that they went to Learys saloon. Ed
ward Tenney also came along and spoke to the
officers, andhe too went into Learys place.
From the statements of witnesses il does not
appear that there was much of a fight in the
saloon. but Smallwood. who was under the in
fiuence Of liquor, used the knife without much
proyocatson- The knife was not q large one.
1t belonged to a man named Davis. from whom
Smallwood had borrowed it to cut piece of
tobacco.
From what the officers learned Smallwood
and his companions were in the saloon when
Tenney entered and made a remark of some
sort
smallwood told him: "You can't run this
bar room"
THE FATAL BLOW.
Nobody wants to run it," was Tenney's re-
sponse. and then il was that SmalIwood says
81 clipped him." A man named Richardson
and the bartender took the knife from Small
wood, who ran out of the saloon in order to
escape arrest The man who was fatally
wounded followed and ran far as Government
alley, where he dropped dead.
Sergeant HARRISON, with Policemen Maddox
and Haniey, started out to find the murderer
and half an hour later they located him at the
house OF his brother in-law, No. 1I03 23d street.
When the house was reached Officer Maddox
remained outside. while his brother officers
went in They found the alleged murderer
who had enough liquor in him to make him
ugly, and be showed light
sMALLwooD ARRESTED.
Policeman Maddox entered the house when
he heard the disturbance and soon had his nip
pers on the prisoners wrists. He was then
taken to the station and locked up. While in
his cell he made numerous statements of the
affair, but no two of them were exactly the
same.
THE AUTOPSY AND INQUEST.
Deputy Coroner Schaeffer made an autopsy
this afternoon and the inquest was held at 2.3O
o'clock Fully one dozen witnesses we're
present at the examination.