The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-22
a TRAIL OF BLOOD.
LIKE Turner. Colorcd Dame tees Knife
4 W Ditto Nan named CuIp.

LIKE Turner. a Col,rcd Dame tees a Knife
on a White Nan named Cup.
Lizzie Turner, a colored dansel. living
with Two coored men named Dunkin on
South Emporia avenue. is locked up in the
! city bastile She was arrested at mid
night last night by Officer Harry Sutton
| but no charge has been preferred against
! her yet, pending the result of the crime
! for which she was arrested. When
charge is preferred against her it will be
| for murder.
About 10 o'clock carpenter named
| Cdip, white man, was brought to DR..
st. Johns office bataed in blood, and the
red fluid flowing profusely from half
dozen wounds Oh different parts OF his
body. He was thoroughly exhausted and
WAS not able TO SPEAK when be arrived at
the doctors Office. The man who was
with him, however, stated that
! Culp was slashed wit u razor by colored
woman on South Emporia avenue. Chief
Cone and a reporter for the EAGLE, assist
ed by Chips companion. started out FOR
the scene CT the cutting affray, but the
guide was unable to locate the place. a
close examination was made and a we'll
defined trail OF blood led 10 the house OF
the two Dunkin men on South
/ Emporia avenue. directly across the street
/ from Root Bros barn. The door was
J pushed in and Is recent scrubbing of the
! floor showed conclusively that the place
was rightly located. There was no one in
! the premises but one Of the Dnukin broth
ers, who was lying on a mattress in the
/ corner of an adjoining shed, with his eyes
/ tied up with bandages. He said he knew
nothing of disturbance, but that Lizzie
! Turner WAS their housekeeper. aud
was the only woman about the
! place. Lizzie's trail was taken at once,
/ but everywhere the chief went she had
/ just left there minute or two before
Thinking that she would return TO the
scene of her crime Officer Sutton was
! placed under the darkness of the shade
/ trees near by and inside of ten minutes
Felix Dunkin was seen steadily approach
/ ing Mr.. Sutton accosted him and
demanded of him the whereabouts of
! the Turner girl, and he said be didn't
know. The officer said he knew better,
and advised him to surrender her. lie
yielded and led the officer to the alley,
/ where Lizzie was crouching. She was inn
mediately arrested and locked up, as
stated
Her story is that Culp gave her some
money-50 cents-aud that afterwards he
| tried to take it away FROM her; that she
happened TO have a knife in her hand
which cut Culp in the scuffle over the pos.
session of the piece of money. She said
that she did mean to stab him and that it
was purely an accident.
! The man who was with Culp told sub
stantially the following story to an EAGLE
! reposte7: 'Culp and | had just left
I Mixes place where we had game of
cards, end as we were going down
! Douglas Avenue we met this wo-
man. She asked Us to go with her
and we, III return, asked her whether she
could get Us any whisky. She said she
could get US lots of it and we followed
| her. She led US to this house, gave us
seats and locked the door. Some question
arose about giving her some money. She
threw our hats into Il side room and said
we should not leave the house till we gave
her a dollar apiece. We forced our way
into the room where our hats
were and when we were
going out Sue pulled knife and COM
menced carving Cup. | thought that
they were only scutfiing till l saw the
blood flowing from Culp and then took
him to DR.. St. Johns Office
Culp received a severe ggsh on the fore
head another directly under the chin.
OF her on the wrist and the most vicious of
all the slashes she made at him was aimed
at the abdomen. The knife penetrated
through his clothing aud grazed
the skin. Several arteries were
cut and the loss of blood
was terrible. After the wounds We're
dressed Culp was taken home to his wife
who WAS ignorant of ali his troubles TIL
his almost lifeless body reached her. Dr.
ST. John has hopes of his recovery, but
it seems almost impossible aft er such
waste of the vital luid. y stream of
blood extended distance of eight blocks
and without this telltaie evidence il
would be hard matter TO locate
the scene of the crime as well
as the criminal Lizzie Turner is Il years
old and is "A shade darker than a muIatto
There seems 10 be some question as to her
entire guilt and il is hluted that CulD Is
by no means entirely free from blame,
There certainly seemed to be but very
little excuse for two white men following
a cOlored girl of that age a distance of
seven or eight blocks 20 a remote part of
whisky, when they could have procured
il so easily on Douglas avenue where they
first met her