The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-07-24
MOST INHUMAN TREATMENT.
Sallio Holmes Charged with The Murder
Of a Little Child.
BURNED WITH A RED-HOT POKER,
Hung to the Wall by tho Thumbs--Forced
To Eat Red fepper-Put Out OF Doors
in Cold Weather

in Cold Weather
Sallie Holmes. the coiored woman who
was arrested on Friday on warrant
sworn out by J. G. Mann, charging her
! with numerically beating and ill-treatine
| Irene lsadOre Holmes, her five-year-old
| step-daughter. whose death was supposed
10 have resulted from the ill-treatment.
was yesterday tried before a coroner's
/ jury, presided over by Squire Lewis. at
| the corner Of Carter and Cary streets,
ard sent on to the grand jury,
charged with the murder Of the child.
| The INST account OF this then supposed
murder, the details OF which are horri-
bic and revolving In the extreme, were
| published exclusively in The Times OF
Sunday.
The Inquest. which was adjourned over
/ from Saturday. occupied something over
/ two hours yesterday, and during That time
/ five witnesses were examined. There were
| a number Of others. but at the con-
| clIsion OK Camm J0hnson's cOlored) testl-
mony. the Commonwealth rested the case.
with the above results. In the temporary
/ absence Of Commonwealth Attorney
Sands the prosecution was conducted by
/ Mr. William II. Beveridge. until the
/ arrival OF that gentleman. and the de-
fence was conducted by Mr. y. Thomas
MOsby
The accused. who had been lodged in the
county jail, was brought up TO the In
quest by Squire Lewis, through whose
/ efficiency her neinous crime was disclosed.
Her name "a Sallie Holmes. She IS
/ dark negress, about I'VE feet, eight Inches
/ tai. She Ia twenty-seven years old, and
| has been married 10 Frank Holmes about
eleven monthS
At the conclusion Of the inquest the
/ prisoner Informed me that the witnesses
/ had not told the truth. and that they
would only know the truth when she
! was allowed % testify.
THE wITsssEs AGREE.
The evidence Of the FIVE witnesses OK
aminod coToborated each other in the
/ main. and all OF II was OF a nature cali
! culated TO make the most hard hearted
/ and cri:ne-stained villain shudder with
4 horror Tho details OF the treatment 10
! which the Btue colored GIL was SUBJ
tected n order. as IL IS az present sup
posed, that her parents might be en-
/ richec some few hundred dollars by the
| Insurance policy. on her life. were sicken-
! lrg in the extreme, and brutal beyond
! conception. large amount Of the EVIL
/ dencc given In sets the tOr,ures Of the
Spanish fnquisitOn In the shade, and the
! besuality Of some Of the slow modes
OF death inflicted upon the child were u
/ such an indecent nature as not 10 admit
| OF publication.
Phyllis Tucker and Bette Payne. two
/ colored womsr, neighhors OF Sallie
/ Holmes, testified that they helped to-
shroud the child. They had known n
/ the terrible WINNINGS the chiIl,s eton-
/ mother had given IN They not,rad mans
! Of violence upon the childs body. They
/ testified that tbere wore sca-s ,croes tbc
sLoi,ijo-e and Nh ana a. a. oSS ',e
- ricbt ga 'F'' " " '"i vi
,rbey noticeJ tho loft eido ~ tho f,co
7 aud the nook vrore torru,lv hrui-ej IVit-
/ Teesst ,vnrn NOT rcreonall, aro',.tn,nd
/ vim the nrisoner
bh. ChALhLHf ItsIHIEs'
Dr. Chalkley EichmOnd's tOxalorical
/ EXPERT who was called In bv Squire
/ Lewis 10 make the uost-nortern exarnlna-
! ZION testified that m his exarnination he
J foUnd the body very much cnaciated ana
i'm an advanced stage of Recommendation
m Tbc an Doctor es fnu,6 roon,i..
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