The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-06
IT IS HUMAN BLOOD
Stains on the Shoes and Vest
of Sam Wright.
CHEMICAL TEST MAUI
NOW NO DOUBT AS TO WHO
KILLED ALoNzo CARR.
BRUTAL AND coLD-BlooDED MURDER
The People Of Wayne Are Indignant and
Lynching is Feared When All the
Facts Are Made Known.

The News and observer yesteiua'
morning told of horrible murder COM
mitted near Goldsboro Saturday night.
AiouSo Carr, white man, the dispatch
stated. was found about 10 o'clock sat
urdy night dead in his store. His head
was nearly severed from his body, there
being eight distinct gashes in his neck.
The last man seen in Cars store was
sam Wright q colored man, who was
he,nipe him in his work. Wright is a
comparative stranger in that section. he
claims to be from Georgia, and had been
living at the house of an old woman In
the community. s
He was arrested in Goldsboro about
noon Sunday. On him were found two
pistols, q watch and quite sum Of mon
ey. He said both the money and the pis--
tolls and the watch were his own, but
others identified the pistols as the prop
,erty of the dead man, Carr.
Further investigation revealed the fact
that there was blood, or what looked
like blood, on the negro's clothing and
shoes.
The evidence Of the mans guilt almost
amounted to certainty, but it was, for
the most part, circumstantial. In order
to settle the matter beyond dispute, DR..
Paul Hutton, one of the physicians who
made the post norton examination OF
Carr, took the bloody clothing and shoes
and came to Raleigh to have an expert
chemical test made to determine whether
or not the stains were made by blood or
by pOke-juice, as the negro claimed.
The test was made yesterday by DIR.
Hutton, DR.. r. III. Lewis and State
Chemist Withers. The result left no
doubt as to who the slayer of Alonzo
Carr is. 1t must be Sam Wright, for the
stains upon his shoes and clothing are
blood-human blood.
Parties here yesterday from Goldsboro
said that they feared that Wright Yould
be lynched when the result of the tests
made were learned in Wayne county.
The old woman with whom Wright
had been living, says that he came home
about 8 o'clock, (the murder was COM
mitted before that, went into his room
and said that he was going to take a
bath. Later he came out, saying he was
going to Goldsboro. He went and was
arrested next day. While in the room it
is believed that he washed the blood off
his person and off his clothes as much as
possible. His clothing plainly showed
evidence of this washing.
1t is certain that he pulled off pair
Of overalls he had been wearing, but
what he did with them no one knows. 1t
is genrally thought that he threw them
into mill pond nearby. But it now
makes very little difference what he did
with them, the examination of the spots
on his vest and shoes leaving no doubt
as to his guilt.
The murder was one Of the most brut-
n that has ever been committed in North
Carolina. Its object was robbery. There
could have been no other motive. ..
Z The body of Mr.. Carr was found lying
partly under the bed, head thrown back
and almost severed from his body As
many as eight gashes could be counted,
and attempts wer made, to cut through
the bone. There were evidences of a
struggle. The bottom OF his foot was
covered with blood, and a bone in the
back Of his right hand was fractured, as
il it were done in striking the negro.
Wright is now in Jail in Goldsboro,
and there is great Indignation over his
crime. ls