Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-15

HAvRE DE GRACE, Mn, March IL
William Il. Lawrence was stabbed to
death at the Pennsylvania railroad sta
ton in Havra de Grace at 1910 this
morning One wound was in the neck
and another in the breast. Lawrence
was an iron moulder at the foundry of
Armstrong Il Co.,, was,22 years old and
unmarried and lived al Perryyille, Cecil
county, where he supported his widowed
mother.
A coroner's jury rendered u verdict
that Lawrence was maliciouslV muir
dered by William Bouldin. Bouldin is
~ years old and IS .. native and resi-
dent of Perryyille. He has wife and
two children. He was some months
ago convicted of having drawn n knife
upon Lawrence,about u yeal ago at the
Havre de Grace depot. lie was, after
the killing to-day arrested at his home
and was lodged in jail at Elkton.
The story brought out at the hearings
was as follows; Lawrence, with Bouldin
and Michael Spaine, also of Perryville,
spent Saturday evening in Havre dc
Grace. At midnight they went to the
station to take the 1910 train across the
Susquehanna to Perryyille A discus.
sion arose as to the comparative merits
OF the pugilists sullivan and, Corbett,
and the argument grew hot Lawrence
championed Corbett and Bouldin adyo.
Gated Mitchell. Bouldin, il was said,
attacked Lawrence and knocked him
down. Lawrence arose and the two
men clinched, Spaine rushing between
them to stop the fight.
Spaine was struck twice and Law
renee was again knocked down. Sud.
denly Lawrence called to Spaiue. He
said he was bleeding and begged Spaine
10 run for assistance before lie (Law-
renee) died. Bouldin then ran away.
Spaine found that Lawrence was
badly wounded. DIR. j. Ii. Cochran ar.
rived in few minutes, but Lawrence
was then dead. He had moved to the
door of the mems waiting-room at the
station, which was about twenty-five
feet from the place where he had fallen,
He left a trail Of blood along this track.
Justice S. Il. Penning was notified
and search was made by Constable
Farr and Bailitf Welsh, but Bouldin
could not then be found. Surprising
that he had gone to Cecil county, Mr..
Penning swore out a warrant for Boul-
din before Justice Ward :of Perryyille.
AT o'clock Bouldin was arrested at his
home by Deputy Sheri1fs Mackey and
Boyd, where the officers found him
calmly smoking.
A preliminary hearing was had at
Perryville, after which Bouldin went 70
Elkton Jail. Constable Farr summoned
the following jury of inquest: ID. NJ.
Osmond, foreman; L. Morgan, ID. b. II.
Mahon, William A. Jones, Jesse j. Pop
lar, ii. Q. Cook, Charles Healey, Lewis
Wilson, Arthur Deppish, W. II. Dobscn,
Edgar Kelly. They convened at Coroner
Jennings office, at o'clock, where the
body had been taken for post-mortem
examination by Drs. j. Ii. Cochran and
X. Ii. Smith.
A dagger with blade about 81 inches
long was produced in evidence. 1t was
found by George Edleman short dis
lance from the depot in the course of
Bouldin's escape. The physicians testi-
fled that Lawrence's wound in the neck
was OF such q character us TO produce
death in short time. 1t severed the
1ugular vein. The wound in the lett
breast was over the heart, but was not
necessarily fatal, as it merely reached
Inc heart sac without penetrating it.