The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-25
KlLLEDBY HER WHITELOVER
Agnes Mcknight, COlOTed, SHOT Down
in The Street.


Richie Williams Skull Fractured by
Random William schwerz Sus-
peoted of the Shooting-The Police Ar
rest Him-The Shooting Believed to
Have Been the Result of a Quarrel
Early in the Day-The Coroner to Hold
an Investigation This Morning.
Agnes Mcknight. colored. was shot and
instantly killed at West Boundary and In
dian street lane last night just before
midnight Richie Williams. another negro
woman, was shot in the left temple
and is seriously II not fatally
injured. There does not seem to be any
doubt that the shooting was done by young
Willie Schwarz.
The affair occurred in the toughest part
Of Yamacraw. The neghborhood is thick
~ settled with disreputable negro women.
and a drunken orgie was in progress near
the scene of the killing, which is probably
the reason why there were not more wit
nesses to the affair. The woman who was
killed was commonly known in the neigh
borhood as "Bunchie." According to re-
port she and schwarz had some falling out
two or three months ago and the woman
went TO Beaufort. She had only recently
returned to Savannah and was living with
her sister in a house in Indian street lane.
Young Schwarz was either drunk or crazy
yesterday, perhaps both. he was seen in
the ueighborhood in which the killing oc-
Cured several times and had new Smith
q Wesson IS caliber pistol which he showed
TO several parties and announced his nten-
ton of killing 'Bunchie"
]. Z. Brown, colored. said that he was
at the house Of the Mcknight sisters about
II o'clock while young Schwarz was there
He was drunk and threatening the wo-
man and ordering her TO leave the house
with him. She seemed afraid, but finally
left with him. She had not been gone
any time when Brown heard pistol shots
one after the other, three in succession
He ran out and found the woman lying
in the street She appeared to de dead
when he reached her.
Alfonso Brown, colored, said that he
was standing on the steps of a grocery
on the corner when he heard a pistol
shot and saw the woman run around
the corner with a young white man pur-
suing and firing at her with a pistol The
woman dropped about thirty feet from
the corner. There were very few people
on the street at the time, he said, but
crowd quickly gathered.
The sister of the murdered woman
seemed dazed and could not give any ex-
act account of what had happened Po-
lceman McCOol and Davis arrived on
the scene. shortly after the shooting. They
found that Richie Williams was badly
wounded and sent her to Dr. Norton's
office. The Williams woman did not
know who shot her She was walking
across the street when struck by the bull
let. A number Of negroes accompanied
her TO DR.. Nortons office and stated
that Schwarz did the shooting. DIR. Nor
ton extracted a ball from the woman's
left temple about one inch above the ear.
The skull was fractured. The doctor
said the wound is a very serious one and
may prove fatal Policemen McCool and
Davis and Detective Hanley at once went
TO work on the case and searched the
neighborhood for Schwarz. Detective
Kavanaugh Joined in the search later
Schwarz was arrested by McCool and
Jernigan at his home No Margaret
street. He had nothing to say about the
matter and no questions We're asked him
at the barracks. A charge of murder was
entered against him on the police docket.
The coroner was notified of the kill
ing short time after 1t took place, and
Mr. w. T. Dixon proceeded at once to
the locality. When he arrived he made
an investigation of the case and the
body Of the woman was removed to her
sisters home just around the corner from
where the shooting occurred, in Indian
street lane. An examination showed that
she had been shot in the upper part of
the back. just to the right of the back
bone. The ball. however, did not go
through the body.
There was a large crowd of negroes
gathered at the place and they We're loud
in their denunciation of the womans
slayer. Daniel Rivers, a negro who said
he saw the killing, said that SchwarZ
told him early in the evening that he was
going to kill the woman. Rivers said
Schwarz stated to him that he had given
the woman a watch that cost $50 and
that she had given It to a negro, who
was one of her friends. He reproached
her Off this action, and told her he did
not like It. The woman then told him.
so Rivers stated, that she did not care
and that if he did not like it he could get
out
Rivers said it was after making this
statement that Schwarz told him he was
going TO kill the woman. He said that
Sehwarz then went away and got a pis-
tol, which he saw him lay on a counter
IN bar-room in that locality a short
lime before the shooting occurred. He
said he heard some pistol shots a little
later, and on going to see what was the
matter found that the woman had been
killed. Another man stated that he saw
Schwarz with a new pistol that he had
just purchased late in the afternoon. 1t
Was practically aim;.o GJtble Ito get q
straight statement of the affair or any
thing like it, as the negroes were so ex-
cited that none of them could tell lust
what caused the difficulty.
The coroner will hold an inquest at 10
O'Clock this morning at the house to which
the body was taken in Indian street
lane.