Richmond planet., 1898-04-09
Two Horrible Murders The Tes-
timony Of the Witnesses.
A SUNDAY FUNERAL. ANOTHER MAN MADE
READY FOR BURIAL.
Gangs Engage in Deadly Duels.
THE SITUATION DESPERATE.-A FAILURE TO
APPREHEND THE GUILTY PARTIES

A funeral on Sunday, band OF music,
q crowd from 17th Street aud vicinity,
and one man cut to death, another
with his eye knocked out, another with
hand cut and still another with three
stsbs in the back and one in the head
is the result.
William Smith, q member of the Lin !
coin Beneficial Club was buried Sun
day afternoon. The organization was
in no wise responsible for the melee,
nor were any OF the me mbeIs partici
pants in the horrible butcheries.
THE FIGHT BEoAN
The fight began on the eide walk
and in the cutters. Razors flashed.
"A man 5 cutr' was the cry, Blood
cuehei a, reddening the ground. Allen
staggered. His friends supported him
TO the nsighborhood OF the drug store.
Itwas we'll nigh all over. From lean
ing against a post, he sank to the
ground. A moment later he was dead
Medical skill as powerless- In the
confusion his aessilant and murderer
escaped,
The mystery deepens and the in
VetJfKAtlOu bt bAAC QAtCC 000At eAAcW
no light upen the situation But the
following tells its own story
William Robinson said =. was cut
four times in the back and once in the
head. Happy Jack named Ernest
Mfmms cut me. 1t occurrs d Sunday
afternoon was on st. James street
between Duval and Jackson. These
two boys, Earnest Nimms and the
Carter boy was coming up the street
L. QOf1InU
ward Duval st.
One OF them l think it was Joe Car
ter said, 'D-m s-D--. Let's xii
him.
Il had said nothing to them. L walk
ed on and said l don't want TO have
any thing to do " ith you They threw
rocks st me. Then Joe Carter ran uI
on me. While WAS wrestling with
him. that other boy, Happy Jack rar
up and cut me in the back.
MARY Brown said Please don't xii
that man She lives en- st. James St.
near st. Philips Church. A womaI
who lived in the house in front o
which the affair occurred saw it.
was stabbed with a white handle knife
After he cut me he ran.
1--WE were scuffiing. had throws
Carter down. j hit one of them with
stick when both OF them were on m
cutting me. live on Duval street an
Twas going no where. Carter tol'
him to cut me. do not know any
thing about the other cutting. J. wa
not at UIlman's Saturday night"
Doctor was called TO see this boz
He had three stabs in the back and OIL
in the head. All of them were aboV
half an inch deep
The case was cent to the grand 1ur.
The case of Joseph Carter chaI Sc
with killing Irving Allen was taken u
officer W. L. Fosler said "A ma
Irving Allen was killed on Broad Si
hetween 2nG and 3rd streets about
or 1870 P. NJ. Sunday. l found mi
Iaving on the pavement. The rum
Wss that Happy Jack did the cuttin
l remembered that when came out
the station house l saw him run IN
Pink Alley.
house. A man had reached the
ahead of me and had sent him ava
made the colored man tell me wbe
he had sent him by telling HIM tina
would send him TO jail, il he did q
tell me where to find him.
went 10 the place he told me, a
on searching the premises, found n
in the wardrobe. asked him what
was doing in there, ana ne sal0 II
thew told him that l was after hi
Il
ing the "nigger" Allen.
He said that they could do nothl
more than hang him and he would
be the frat "nigger" hung.
I asked him what he did with the 7
tol. He said that Brown gave him
pistol and threw it IN the cnlvert. ]
entire crowd came from lIth SC
Sam Allen, brother of the murde'
man said that he was IN the line
..-oh aDd knoW nothing ahOnf il.
Walter Henderson, William Pr
William Patterson and John BrC
were sworn. having been previou
discharged.
Walter henderson said he was OF
St., when he saw Finch get hit
do not know who hit him or with "
he was struck. Finch aud Allen "
walking in the gutter. parted '
Allen &C Third Street.
Allen went out to the bury
ground to see the fellow Goode, WI
he knew. / was no where arc
when he got killed. / went down 4
shall towards 4th. AS l was g
down to the First Church 70
named Joseph Jones told me that
len was cut to death.
Thee Hopes said he was goin to
lens house and tell his mother tha
was cut 20 death.
In6e nOpo ndfO OoA-AC -. .DSN
and Broad and some one said tn
man named Allen was cut TO death
/ told them that would take the
sage TO his u, other. l went down
and asked where Allen lived.
William Price said: Il was on
and Leigh St., when some one Gu
on the hand One Of the boys CAV
a pistol, l threw 1t in the culvert
cause / had no use for It. Some
threw a rock 1t struck David III
the man at the almshonse. dis
20 up to 8rd aud Broad St.. butwe
Marshail st.
William Patterson said: Il
know anything about this cut
About 7:3O sunday night, all
were together. Some one came uI
struck me. was on the street
the procession was coming up and
one struck me and said, Here IL o
the gang"
William Brown said; i was
pe down 10 Bird and Clay Sts..