The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-30
CLUB BADGE LED TO DEATH.
HENRY CASON'S FATAL KNIFB
THRUST INTO ARTHUR RROWN.


Two I5-Ncar-Old CoIOred Boys
Fought over the Election Emblem.
Brown Attempted TO shoot Cason
and the Latter Plunged 81 Knife In
TO His BODY and Severed an Artery.
The COroner's Investigation BE-
gun, Bat Postponed Until Witness
es Of the Tragedy Can BE Found.
Arthur Brown. The negro boy who was
stabbed by Henry Cason, another negro
boy of the same age, at West Broad and
Hail streets, Thursday night, died yestcr-
day morning at o'clock.
Cason is under arrest bdt if his story
of the stabbng is corroborated, as it
probably viii be. he will doubtless be re-
leased by the corouer's jury this morning
Coroner Goette undertook TO hold the IN
quest last night, but was obliged to con-
tinue it because an important witness 10
the tragedy could not be found
Brown death simply illustrates what
an easy matter it sometimes is to take
human life The wound which caused
his death, according to the statement OF
the attending physician, was not more
than three-quarters of an inch IN depth
and about five-eighths OF an inch wide
beng in tire right shoulder just above the
breast. II happened to be in the exact
spot. however. 70 strike the sub-clavicle
artery. the severing of which resulted in
Browns death from hemowhage.
According to the story Of Cason, when
Is .corroborated by Witnesses he was at
u~ ton 81
him with a pistol and only used his knife
in self-defense. Cason said that he was
carrying dinner 70 his brother a day or
two before the cutting when he met Brown
for the first time az West Broad ana Han
streets Cason said that he had on
Liberal CLUB star. which seemed 10 anger
Brown, who endeaVOred TO make MN give
IL up. This he refused to do. and Brown
did not attempt 10 take il away from him
Thursday night, he said he came by the
same corner. when somebody ran up and
struck him on the side of the head. He
turned TO see who 1t was, and was struck
in the head from the other side. He saw
Arthur Brown and John Batdse, and lie
manded OF Brown what he meant by at
lacking him.
Brown cursed him and told him that
he had been pretty stiff about the star
the day before. and said he intended to fix
him for it. or words to that effect. Some
further words passed when Brown drew
pistol, Cason said. The latter seized
the pistol. Brown pulled the trigger, but
ii caught against Cason's hand. Cason
showed a mark on his hand where he said
the trigger caught il. Battise encouraged
Brown. and thinking that he was going
10 be Killed, Cason drew his knife, and
made a lunge at him. striking him in the
shoulder. Brown fell, and he started TO
walk of home, not thinking that his an
tagonist had been seriOsly hurt. He lad
gone only a short distance when he heard
Battise call out for somebody to stop and
arrest him. lie stopped then and waited
until the officers came up.
After he had been arrested. he said. a
crowd gathered around him and wanted
TO do him up. Brown and Battise came
up. and Brown exclaimed to Battise,
Give me the pistol again and let me
shoot him." Cason claimed that he had
acted entirely in self-defense. He is only
10 years of age, the same age as Brown.
Brown was taken to his fathers house,
In Hall street lane, at the corner of
Montgomery where he died at o'clock
yesterday morning. He was attended by
DR.. W. II. Jennings and Dr. r. r. Rol-
Inns shortly after being removed to his
home.
Before being taken home Brown was eX-
amined by Policeman Wood, who found
no weapon on him. A gentleman living
in the neghborhood however, and who
will be one Of the witnesses before the
coroner's jury, stated to a Morning News
reporter that he arrived on the scene
shortly after the stabbing occurred. He
heard several of the crowd, including two
white men, say that Brown had pistol.
The witness said he knew Brown to be
a hard case, and one of a tough gang that
made it's headquarters at the corner
where the difficulty occurred.
Battise, the missing witness whom the
coroner endeavored to secure. is the one
70 whom, il is believed Brown gave his
pistol after being cut. The inquest will
be concluded this morning. Cason is rep
resented by Messrs. A. Clarke Wright and
w. G. Woodhn.