Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-28
A TRUE BILL FOR MURDER
Found Against Lee Perkins, at
Fairmont.


The Case one of Numerous Murders
Among The Negroes About Fairmont
The Crime Occurred July 26th,
Last Perkins Killed A Man Near
pittsburg Years Ago-Other Indict-
ments Of Interest Fairmont Copper
alton Case Another Murder Indict-
ment.
Special to The New Dominion:
The Circuit Court adjourned at noon
Saturday until Tuesday tnoon The
grand jury did not finish its work and
resumed its sittings to-day. There
was an unusually large number Of wit
nesses To be heard and two murder
cases depended on The jury's action.
One of them, the case OF State Lee
Perkins, resulted In true bill, felony
being reported.
The Perkins case is one of the many
murders among the colored population
at Monongah. On Sunday, July Goth,
James Robinson called at the home of
Lee Perkins, a one-legged colored man,
and engaged In Conversation with
dark-skinned beauty, Lizzie Thomas.
who was calling there Miss Thomas,
otherwise known as Little Bit was
a belle among Monongah's colored pop
ulation Perkins had killed man
near Pittsburg few years ago, and
had served hstime In the penitentiary.
He was living with the wife Of his
brother His brother is in tho pcni-
Tertiary for some crime.
James Robinson. the dead man, de-
clared that ssLittle Bit" had his watch
and became very insulting in his re-
marks. Perkins said he could have no
quarreling at his house and ordered
Robinson to leave. Robinson refused
and took out dangerous looking
knife, declaring he would ''cut out
the heart of Perkins. A coal pick
was in the room and perkins hit Rob-
inson In the head, iniiicting wounds
which resulted In death. Perkins
was arrested and bond refused He
has been in jail since, although four
other prisoners escaped and he might
have got away. The trial was set for
December Sth.
Other indictments Of interest are
those found against Clarence G. Mason,
Of Ritchie county, and James Nay, of
Warrington. Both are for horse
stealing. Mason is a seventeen-year
old boy, who stole two horses, double
harness and blackboard of O. G.
Bradley, Of Manningtop. He was
arrested. The Indictment was found
on the evidence of o. @. Bradley. The
Nay Indictment was found on the evil
dence of N. J. Kellar. So far no in
dictments have been found against
any saloon keeper but G. G.. Cans, al
though one witness says he was asked
If he ever bought of T.. A. Deveny on
Sunday and was asked about no other
saloon keeper. Mr. Deveney says poll
tical enemies threatened this before
the election.
The Pennington municipal case
was before Judge Hagans and action
taken declaring the corporation ex-
tinct. There has been an interesting
fight there since 1895, and the corpor-
alton had been voted out at one time.
INTERESTING CASE.
BY far the most interesting case is
the George Martin case. Before adj
journing for Sunday the grand jury
returned true bill against him. On
July 26th, (the same day Of the Rob-
inson murder), George Martin called
at the home of his father-in-law, Day
i'd Anderson, at Monongah, and was
in conversation with his wife, who
had left him shortly before. Mr.. An
derson said the two must live togeth-
er else quit counting; that he would
not support Mrs Martin unless cir
cumstances changed. Martin and
Anderson quarreled and Anderson took
after Martin to run him off his place,
and was killed by the shooting of
revolver, presumably in Martins
hands. Martin hid with relatives for
several days, but at last gave himself
up, but was let out ON BAIL He and
Mrs. Martin have been living togeth-