The evening times., 1899-08-12

Acting Coroner Glazebrook conducted an
inquest at No. 6 police station this morn
ing into the cause of the death of Kirby
Mobley, who died at Emergency Hospital
yesterday morning from a wound in the
head received during a fight between rival
crowds of boys on Thursday night.
Mr.. A. A. Birney appeared as counsel
for William w. CREDIBLE the youth who ad-
mitted that he struck Mobley with short
section of broomstick, and who claims
that he delivered this blow in self-de-
fence.
The first witness was Leroy Krause,
thirteen years old. He was at Keens BIZ
cycle shop at about O'Clock Wednesday
night. He saw a crowd of boys pass down
Tenth to l Street. He said to a compan-
ion, boy by the name of Lucas, there
will be trouble" He walked to the cor
ner of Tenth and j Streets. He found
that the boys from Rhode Island Avenue
had come down and had stopped the crowd
OF boys from the neighborhood from play
ing. The strange boys said they were
looking for trouble. The strangers were
prepared for fight. They carried sticks
and bricks. The downtown crowd armed
itself with sticks and barrel slaves and
followed the uptown boys down Tenth
Street TO Grant Place and then into Ninth
Street. The strangers then proceeded to
throw bricks, which they picked up from
the ruins OF the old Ninth Street Presby-
terian Church.
The witness did not know Kirby Mobley.
He was not present when the fatal blow
was struck
Gordon krause's story.
Tho nayr Witness WING Gardnn KrauSa
eighteen years old. He testified that there
was trouble between the uptown and down.
town boys on Wednesday. He was seated
on the corner by Dorsey's meat store, Tenth
and j street. There were five or SIX boys
with him. "A crowd" said the witness
came down Tenth Street. They yelled
that they wanted a boy named Arthur
Green, or Arthur Finn. We thought they
were after Arthur Fenton. We ran them
down Tenth and caught them at Grant
Place. Two boys got into a scrap, but a
cop came up and nobody was hurt
ION Thursday night the downtown boys
gathered in the parks on New York Ave-
nue., between Tenth and Twelfth Streets.
There were about fifteen of us that night.
CREDIBLE was in the crowd. Most all the
fellows had sticks. / think CREDIBLE had a
piece OF broomstick. 1t was then about
$50. We saw the crowd of boys coming
down / Street from Twelfth. We up and
'hollered,' here they come and then the
strangers began TO fire stones. We fired
stones back and ran down and got behind
a tree to keep from getting HIT
My crowd ran away. When ] came
back the crowd got together again, and We
sat on the old fountain basin in the park.
Somebody yelled there they are. There
were about twenty Of them. Mobley came
Nip ahead and said: Here We are" He
struck al me with his fist and / lodged.
] had a stick, but did not strike him. ]
think all the other boys in our crowd ran
away except CREDIBLE. / turned, and as /
walked away / heard something strike,
and looking back l saw Mobley falling TO
the ground. CREDIBLE was near. did not
see that CREDIBLE had a stick. Mobley put
his hand to his head and cried: ''oh, Har-
Ty,' Then l saw his crowd coming and /
ran away"
Dr. William c. Whitson, of Emergency
Hospital, testified that he found a wounded
boy at Eleventh and / Streets Thursday
night. He described the nature OF the
wound.
DR.. Mcdonald, Acting Deputy Coroner,
testified TO having performed the autopsy
on the body of Mobley.
William CREDIBLE of 931 / Street north
west, was then called to the witness chair.
He told Of the various movements of the
GICNNS Ol DDHS- ne udu d DTOOLASllGh anu
identified the section of stick in evidence
Sam Stiles, said the witness, gave chase
to a member of the L Street gang caught
him, and hit him with his fist. One of
the New York Avenue boys took piece
Of lead pipe from the L Street man, and
another boy picked up a blackjack which,
it is said, had been thrown away by the
l. Street boy. Later he went to the park
with seven or eight boys. While seated on
the fountain basin, he saw the L Street
crowd at Tenth Street and New York Ave-
nue.. He saw two boys leave the L Street
crowd. Mobley came up and struck Fen
ton in the mouth. Then he rushed at
KraUse.
Sseing the witness, he tried to strike
Credible. who struck him with the broom
stick. Mobley had his arm upraised and
CREDIBLE said he tried to hit him with the
broomstick on the arm.
CREDIBLE said he did not intend to strike
Mobley on the head. Mobley made no
comment when he rushed al Credible Po-
liceman Edwards, who made several OF The
arrests, identified the sticks which had
been picked up in and near the park
Mr.. Semmes represented the District At
torney's office at the inquest.
The Coroner's jury soon after O'Clock
returned a verdict dscharging CREDIBLE
The jury found that Mobley came TO his
death from cerebral hemorrhage caused
by being struck on the head by a stick in
the hands of William CREDIBLE. but the jury
believed that the blow was accidental and
that there was not sufficient evidence 10
hold Grebbie for the grand jury.