Richmond planet., 1896-08-22
CUT TO D.kTH.
Wyndham LipsCOmb Kill
ed BY rIOntague Banks.
A TRAGEDY AT A PRAY
ER-MEETING.
All About Nothing,
A DIST RESSING AFFAIR.
The Statements OF the Wit
HeSSeS.
4 DIST RESSING AFFAIR.

HeSSeS.
Wyndham LipscOmb, a cOlored boy,
13 years OF age was fatally stabbed 10y
Montague Banks, also colored and
about Is years of age, Sunday night on
Byrd Street, between 10th and 11thI
Streets He was removed to the City
Hospital, better known as the aims
house, but died in the afternoon of
the next day.
In the dead house an autopsy was
performed on Tuesday morning. The
body was laying at full length upon
the operating table and the surgeon
who had Just completed his work was
engaged in sewing up the incisions in
the flesh which he had made in order
TO ascertain the exact cause OF death
The coroner's jury viewed the re-
mains after which il repaired to the
chanel &c listen 70 the statements OF
the witnesses. Lipscomb's consin who
was the cause OF the trouble is only
about 2 years of age. Funeral Direc-
tor A. Hayes took charge OF the body
The following are the statements made
there:
Lizzie Morris was sworn and depos-
ed. / live at 1l9 South 2d street We
were at prsyer-meeting last Sunday
might on Byrd street between 10th and
Alth streets. Sadie Lipscomh had
her foot on q bench and was asked to
take it down 10y Montague Banks. She
would not do so and he pushed it down.
They commenced disputing, Banks
said he was going to hit her, but did
not see him hit her.
KNIVES IN THE PRAYER MEETING.
Banks and three girls had knives in
zAehe prayer meeting room. ] did not
see the dead boy in the room at all
and do not know who the girls were
The girls and the boy, Banks, said they
meant to cut some one before they
went out of there and go to jail The first
4 saw of the dead boy was in the street
after he was cut.
1 did not see who cut him. Sadie
and Lipscomb were sitting behind
Banks and the three girls
Thomas Rawlings was sworn and
deposed live at Alp East Marshall
street Sunday night, a little after IL
O'Clock. i was standing on the corner
of 10th and Byrd streets.
THE BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
Isaac Lipscomb goes up to Banks
aud ask him did he kick his sister? He
said, yes" Then Lipscomb smacked
him in the face. Then Banks smacked
Lipscomb down. Banks was the much
larger boy. Some small boys ran up
to help Lipscomb and picked up a
stone. but William Taylor made him
put the stone down.
The small boys attacked Banks, with
ke "A nd hn cta
around. woman, named Mary Smith
got between the boys and Banks and
wrapped her arms around Banks neck
She pulled him away eight or ten
steps.
THE FATAL WOUND.
Ranks broke loose and ran in
amongst the boys and made a wipe
with his knife. That was the first
saw of the knife. He had n stick like
an umbrella handle in his hand Lips
comb drew back and heard him say,
Il am cut" before the row begun.
Mary Smith, while coming up the
street, said if anyone put their hands
on Banks, she would cut his CUTS out
and said, she had the thing to do il
with, but | did not see her have any
knife.
The small boys were about three or
four in number and about the same
size as Lipscomb
THE BOYS COUSIN.
Sadie LipscOmb was sworn and de-
posed. l am II years old 1 live at
1904 r. Byrd street. am the cousin
of Wyndham LipscOmb, the dead boy.
L was at the prayer-meeting Sunday
night, but my cousin was at home
While l was sitting there boy kicked
me. / asked him what he did it foI
and he said he did it because he want
ed to and would do it again. While
was going home / told my mother who
was at her window, about it and my
cousin heard of it and he ran to over
take the boy to ask him what he did il
for.
did not see the cutting. did mo-
have my feet on the bench when wal
kicked I,didn't see any one at the pray
er-meeting with knife.
John Finnegan was sworn and de
posed / arrested Montague f. Banks
for cutting Wyndham Lipscomb. III
told me he had cut the boy becausI
the crowd had piled on him and h,
had to defend himself He said h,
cot him with knife and gave it to mt
when l asked him for it.
t|@EEl THk SURGEON TESTlflESs
DR. Charles A. Labenberg was sworl
aud deposed: / am our almshouse ply
sician. / attended the dead boy. HI
died at 4 40 yesterday P. NJ. He wa
brought to the hospital at the preced
ing midnight. A few minutes after h
came he told me that a man had kick
ed bis sister and he had got after hin
abont it and then the man had Gu
him. / made the post mortem exami
nation this morning.
There was one incisiOn wound, a.
inch and a half below the tenth rib o
the right side and an inch and thre
quarters from the middle line. Tn
wound was an inch and a half long an
the line of direction was nearly hori
zOntal
1t penetrated the stOmache. TIL
contents of the stomach escape
through the wound into the abdomina
cavity and caused peritOnitis.
This and the shock was the cause c
death. He told me ne would be
next birthday.
WOMAN WITH KNIFE.
Annie Thompson was sworn and de-
pOeed l live on the corner OF 9th an
Byrd Sts / was standing at tn
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