San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-24
CHILD MURDERED.
LITTLE JOHNNIE ROBINSON
SHOT THROUGH THE
BRAINS
BY a Negro Woman Named South
all, Who is Now in Jail
Another Mystery.

Mrs. Albert Southall, colored
woman, residing at No. 500 Salado
street, while standing on her front
gallery this morning, about the
hour of S:l5 o'clock, shot a four
year-old colored boy named John
ME Robinson, while he was sitting
on the gallery of the house adjoin-
ing that of Mrs. Southall. The
police We're summoned and the
woman was arrested and is now in
jail.
1t will be remembered by the
readers of the LIGHT that about
two months ago Officer Springer
arrested George Robinson. the
father of the child above mention
ed, and placed him in the city
prison on the charge of beating
and striking his wife. He was
tried by the recorder and fined 5000
or 200 days.
Robinson so terribly beat his
wife five days after she had given
birth to a child, that she laid help
less in her chamber for two days
without a bite to eat. He returned
to the house, and, finding her eat
ing a lunch which neighbor had
provided, took the nourishment
away, and again gave her a few
blows, then left the house. 1t was
OF 20
rested.
After the acting recorder had
fined this inhuman wife beaten,
the frail creature who had been so
Outragously abused at the hands
of her brutal husband, began to
sink and soon her life was ended,
she having died horrible death,
all due to the, cuffs administered
by her husband. Robinson, was
then transferred to the county Jail
where he is now staying awaiting,
the time when he will be tried
murder.
Mrs. Robinson had, at the tim
of her death, two children, john
ME, the boy now lying cold in
death, and the baby she had given
birth to just before her husband
abused her. The baby was taken
i'm custody by an old colored lady,
and the son. Johnnie, was taken to
the home. of his aunt, No. 507 Sala-
do street.
This morning while the little
fellow was seated in chair on the
gallery, he was shot through the
brain by Mrs. Southball. The pis-
toll used was 81 calabre, and the
ball entering in the right side of
the head, two inches above the ear,
and coming out on the opposite
side, two inche above the ear, a
little to the right. The child fell
to the floor, and when Coroner
Griff Jones arrived, he was still
living, though, was sinking fast,
and his brains were DOSING out at
both sides of the head. A physi-
clan was summoned and when he
arrived it was too late, the child
was almost dead. He lived, how
ever, several hours, and then pass
ed away quietly.
Shortly after the shooting oc-
Cured, the mounted officers APP
peared on the scene, and were in
formed that young Robinson had
been shot by Mrs Southall, and
that she had left her home, going
towards the L. & G. n. depot. The
policemen followed her and soon
they placed her under arrest and
she was committed to prison. She
made no statement of the shooting,
but simply said, "Gentlemen, 1t is
all an accident, for which L am
sorry" A LIGHT reporter asked to
see her, in order to obtain her
statement, but his request was not
granted, as the authorities desire
her views to be kept secret, until
after the inquest, which will be
held by Justice Jones, this after
noon, at 3 o'clock.
A mystery is undoubtedly con-
nected with this sad affair, which
may or may not be solved in the
inquest. Why this woman was
standing on her gallery with a
pistol in her hand, in broad day
light, cannot be answered. She is
not in any way connected or rela-
ted to the boy, but it has been said
that she was at one time intimate
ly acquainted with his father,
about the time of his marriage to
tba uourdared wife o