The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17
KILLED WITH HIS OWN KNIFE.
JACK GIBSON, COLORED. FATALLY
STABBED BY HIS WIFE.

The Killing at a Negro settlement
on the Ogeechee ROad-GibsOn and
His Wife QuarreIed and He start
ed to Drag Her Home From Her
Fathers House, when She PIung-
ed Knife in His AbdOmen-The
COrORer's Jury Found "A Verdict OF
MansIaughter.
Coroner Goette held an inquest yesterday
over the body of Jack Gibson. coIored. who
died Saturday night from knife wound
In the stomach. inflicted by his wife.
Gibson and his wife lived at negro set
Element about one-half mile to the left Of
the ten-mile post on the Ogeechee road.
Friday night Gibson came home from his
work earlier than usual As he reached
the house he heard a man inside talking
with his wife. He called TO his wife and
she replied, telling him to go out and cut
some wood. He replied that he would not;
that there was someone in the house with
her. She answered that there was no one
in the house and told him to 90 ahead and
cut the wood for supper
Gibson demanded admittance, and the
woman refused TO admit him. He broke
in the door with his knife in his hand. in
tending to infict serious damage on his
rival He changed his mind. however.
after breaking in the door, and seizing a
chair with which he fioored the intruder.
The latter managed to escape. Gibson
and his wife then had a quarrel. which
ended by the woman leaving and going to
her fathers house, about 100 yards dis
tant
The next morning early Gibson went TO
his tather-in-law's house after his wife,
Tor the purpose of taking her back home.
She refused to go with him. He pulled
her out OF the house and started to drag
her along. They were a short distance
from the house when she cut him with his
own knife. which she had gotten away
from him ir the struggle. The wound was
a terrible cash in the pit of the stomach
ABOUT I'VE inches long, from which the en-
trails protruded.
There were no witnesses to the stabbing
and 1t is not known how the woman man.
aged to get possession of the knife. The
woman went back into her fathers house
and Gibson ran Off. calling to his mother,
who lived about 100 yards away. His moth
er ran out to him. He exclaimed, as she
came up: Your boy is dying"
The wounded man was carried into his
house, where he died about 10 o'clock at
night In spite of the fact that the cut
ting occurred in the early morning, no
physician was summoned and the man
died without medical attendance. When
his father and mother were questioned as
to why they did not send for a physician,
they said that they had no horse or wagon
with which to send for one They didn't
seem to have made any effort to secure a
physician.
The boys father came to town yester-
day morning and notified Coroner Goette
of his sons death. Mr., Goette went out
to the place about noon, accompanied by
Mr.. w. 7. Sullivan. who acted as foreman
of the jury. The other five members of the
jury were colored.
The place where Gibson died was one
room shanty and the jury preferred to sit
out in the rain rather than remain in the
room with the body on account OF its bad
condition. There were several witnesses
before the jury. but no eye witnesses to
the stabbing. Laura Gibson, the dead
mans wife, left her fathers house as soon
as she found that her husband was Sc
riously hurt and came to the city where
she has relatives. Her stepmother said
that Gibson came to the house and dragg-
ed his wife out She paid no attention
to them as they had frequent quauels.
The girl came back in the house present
" ana she heard GIBSON Gazing 10 MS
mother. This information was brought
out from the witnesses.
It was learned that before his death,
Gibson made a statement of the difficulty
between himself and his wife TO a colored
preacher named Morel. The latter was not
present at he inquest, however, having
gone over to Bryan county to hold SER
vices.
Gibson was about % years old and his
wife year or so younger. Gibson was
buried by the coroner yesterday after
noon. Coroner Goette and Mr.. Sullivan
came back in the rain together last night
The coroner notified the police of the re-
port that the woman had come to the city
and search was at once begun for her.
She will probably be arrested to-day. The
verdict of the jury was that the killing
was manSlaughter.