The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-07
SLAIN WITH A POCKET KNIFE.
HENRY VOIGHT STABBED TO
DEATH BY GEORGE GROWER.

The Killing Took Place In Weights
Restaurant and BarroOm ut East
Broad and Liberty StreetS-Th q
Murderer Arrested at His Home on
the white Bluff Road as He Was
washing the Blood of His Victim
From His Hands-The killing the
work of Druken Man.
Henry Voight was stabbed 10 death in his
restaurant az East Broad and Liberty
streets a few minutes before midnight
last night by George Grower. The killing,
so far as known, was drunken act, and
was unprovoked.
Voght was playing a game Of cards with
friend and a companion was looking on,
when loud talking ana cursng were heard
in the bar, to which a door at the rear Of
the restaurant enters Voight said he would
go and stop the cursing, and went out of
the rear door Of the restaurant to the bar.
Almost Immediately and without those
whom he had left hearing a word Of al
tercation. Weight staggered back into the
front of the restaurant through the room
at the rear, into which the bar door opens
what was the matter Without replying he
reeled into the rear room and fell to the
floor
A terrible cash was cut in his right
groin, another the entire length of his
left forearm that barred the bone. and still
another across the right forearm. In ff-
teen minutes or less he had bled to death,
without speaking word.
Grower had been around the bar some
time during the evening, and left by way
of the restaurant, with woman a short
time before the killing but had returned.
1t was a short while after this that Weight
went into the bar to quell the disorder,
and a woman was there, or near, when
the tragedy occurred,
The police We're notified, and Sergt.
Baughn sent Policemen d. J. Cronin and
+. Mendel to follow up and arrest the
murderer. Policeman Meldrim was dis
patched to hunt up the witnesses and
gather all particulars. Sergt. Baughn
also notified Chief McDermott of the kill
ing.
Policemen Cronin and Mendel traced
Grower TO his home, near the3-mile post,
on the White Bluff road, where he kept
a store, and found him in the act of wash
ing the blood from his hands.
The officers had TO lnNelgle MN from
the house by telling him that Voight was
not dead, but merely wounded, before he
would come out, and serious difficulty
was narrowly averted by this means. as
the father of Grower and several others
present refused to allow the officers to
enter the house
The stabbing was done with a'pocket-
knife of ordinary size The knife was
taken from Grower at the barracks. The
work of the police was quick and effective
on the case, and Sergt Baughn's prompt
measures were successful in the speedy
apprehension of the murderer.
The floor Of the restaurant, and partic-
ularly the rear room, was covered with
the blood of the murdered man.
Coroner Goette was notified of the kill
ing and will hold an inquest this MORNING
The body was left lying in the rear room,
where ii had fallen, and the doors Were
kept closed to keep out the crowd that
had gathered.
Grower was drunk at the time of the
killing, and after it would not talk The
witnesses all say that it was a case OF
unprovoked murder.
The murdered man was known in Sa-
vannah as peaceful and we'll liked He
lived at P2 Liberty street. He has no rela-
tives here, but is said to have wealthy
in Charleston. He was about
% years old. Grower is about 25