The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-09
CUT HER THROAT
WITH A RAZOR WILLIE CALVIN
SLEW HIS PARAMOUR.
SHE DIED IN THE ROAD.
ESCAPED FROM CALVIN BY JUMP
ING FROM A WINDOW.

Overfaken by the Police Nearly
Four Hours After He Killed the
Woman-With Tears in His Eyes
Calvin Declares That He Never
Meant to XIII Her for He Loved
Her so-Has Told Several Varying
Accountable Razor Found Where
He Dropped 1t in the Patrol
Wagon.
With her throat cut, Annie Pierce,
colored, raised a window, jumped out
and ran several hundred yards before
falling, and even then lived some mo-
rnents before she expired. She died
paying the debt of faithlessness to
her paramour, who few minutes be-
fore had cut her throat with one
sweep of razor.
The crime was committed early yes
terday morning in the settlement in
the southern part Of the city known
as Sunny Side, and in a few hours
Willie Calvin, colored. was arrested
by Detective Stark and. admitting the
crime, was locked up.
The Pierce woman and Calvin had
been living together about two years,
Calvin having left his lawful wife 10
bring the woman from Jacksonville
where he had become infatuated with
her on a visit. They had frequent
quarrels, but patched UP their differ
ences and the woman who in the night
had fed from her angry companion
would return the next day, and while
he was at work arrange the house
hold effects and have his supper
cooked when he returned. He would
come in, see that she had forgiven
him. and their lives would run on
smoothly for a time.
But once too often they disagreed.
and tins time, the last, she paid the
penalty, while he is in prison charged
with murder. In fit of jealous rage,
he struck out with a razor, giving
her what proved to be her death
wound and now with tears in his eyes,
he cries, Il sure loved that girl. l
never meant to kill her.
LoItered Near Scene of His Crime.
After the crime Calvin loitered
around the scene. With his clothing in
telescope valise, he went to several
houses in the neighborhood, where
lley were holding the death-watch
over the corpse of one of his own race
and was walking along the road, valise
in hand, when hailed by the officers sent
out to arrest him. He surrendered
quietly and acknowledged having cut
the woman. but said that he did not
mean to kill her This last statement
~ all go aRz.y a.-ta hi
though his account in other details va
ries in each repetition. He was put in
TO the wagon and searched, but the
weapon with which the deed was done
was not found. He said he had left
it in the house. but the most painstak-
ing search failed to locate it.
Ii was thought by the police that
he had done away with this evidence
of his crime by throwing it away
somewhere on the road Later in the
day. though. it was found in the very
wagon in which he was standing when
he said he had left 1t at the house. One
of the colored attendants at the bar
racks picked it up under the edge of
the seat cushion. 1t would make a ter
rible weapon in the strong hands of a
man. The blade of the razor had been
taken out of the rubber handle in
which it was bought and the ferule
part, the narrow point-like end, had
been set into a round handle made of
a piece of maple wood. The blade was
narrow, but it had been newly sharp
ened and was in prime condition for
delivering a cash, such as that from
which the woman died. Calvin himself
said that the woman had shaved his
head with the weapon the afternoon
before the fight that ended in her
death.
'.Slushed" Her with Razor.
To Officer Stark Calvin said that he
went to beat the woman and he did it,
When the trouble began she was at a
table looking around as If for a knife
and he thought of the razor and he
got it and "slushed" at her with it.
Later in the day, with tears, Calvin
declared that he did not mean to kill
the woman. and did not know that he
had done so until the police stopped
him and told him that the woman was
dead. He said a man, whose name he
couldn't give, had been hanging around
Annie all of Sunday, trying TO attract
her attention from the porch If the
house next door, but, though he noticed
this, there was no fuss and he went to
bed. AwaHng about what he thought
was Y O'Clock, he found that she was
faithless and reaching for a stick he
tried to hit the man on the head with
it. Striking the door il broke and the
man ran out of the house. The woman
ran to the food safe, in another room.
where she had put the razor in the af-
ternoon after shaving him and getting
It, started after him. He snatched the
razor cut of her hand and made enc
slash at her. He did not even know
that he had done her any hurt
only that she cried, You cut me.
You cut me. l amt coming back
to you. You cut me-" With this she ran
10 the window. pushed it open and
jumped out.
Went to Setting Up"
That is all he saw of her, Calvin
said. Later he put on his outer
clothing. remarked that he guessed
Annie wasn't coming back for the
night. and taking his valise, went to
spend the night with his cousin. Or
the way he stopped at George Will
liams' house, where the woman some
times went when they had been quar-
reling, but listening and not hearing
her voice in the house, he went to Tom
loves. where he left his valise and
then went to the "seALng up" of a CIR
whom he had known. After staying
there a half-hour, he returned &c
loves, got his valise and started t.
his cousins house. He never reached
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