The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30
CHARGED WITH BRUTAL CRIME |NegrO Accused of Beating | Child to Death. WIL SON COLEMAN IN JAIL
 Said to Have Hastily Buried Boy at Night. Neighbors Say Negro Stamped With Heavy Feet a six-year-o1d Child. Coroner Tice Investi- gating Story.

wilson Coleman, . negro carpenter was placed in jail yesterday afternoon, charged with a most brutal crime. He is accused of the murder of his S-year-oid son by beating and stamping him 10 death.
 The alleged crime, as set forth in the warrants sworn out by Coroner Iice' IS one of the most revoltipg that ever came under the notice of the County authori- ties. At least one witness swears that the inhuman father knocked the child, which was little more than a baby. from the front porch and stamped and beat him so brutally that death followed.
 Another child of Coleman's. year older than the dead b,S Is at his house on Finley Avenue suffering intensely from serious hurts said to have been innicted by his father. The flesh on his body Is torn and lacerated and gaping. blee9ine who examined the injured boy does not think that he will recover.
 Coroner Tice was quietly notfned two days ago that Colemap had come 70 t0wn at night and purchased secretly cnhd comm. He learned also that he had en- aaged a small wagon for trip to the Wear Place, six miles from the 'city. The Coroner immediately began an investlRa- ton. He learned from negro woman, 0 neighbor of Coleman's living on Finley Avenue, that he had unmercifully beaten his two boys. She said she had seen him strike the one that died terrible blow, Knocking him from the porch. lie then, according to this witness dragged the child around in the back yard and stamp ed him to the ground.
 The witness declares that the negro father jumped upon the child again ana again with his heavy shod feet. night or two later the child died.
 The Coroner learned thSt the child was buried with indecent haste in negro graveyard near the Wear place. The grave was dug in a muddy, watery place. There was no ceremony or any kind and no burial permit or death cef- tificate had been obtained.
 To carry his investigations further Cor oner Tice, accompanied by physician, drove out to the Wear place yesterday and exhumed the body of Coleman's child. There were huge bruises and contusions all over the body. such as could have been made by a heavy stick or by man boot heel. There was serious bruise on the forehead and another on the temple Both could have been made by snoe- heel. It was the opinion Of notn the physician and the Coroner that the child s ueath had been caused bv the awful beat irfgs that he had received.
 The Coroner visited Coleman's house The mother of the children died some
  He has no children by his second wife. but six, by his first wife, two boys and four girls, lived with their father and step-mother. Colemans wife displayed d stolid indifference when questioned by the Coroner as to the childs injuries. She denied that she ever saw Coleman beat either of the boys. According to her story they never had been whipped. Tn spite of her denial Coleman's 7-year-old son was then iyirg In bed in an almost cllf2 and bruises Coleman's negro neighbors, however made statements that. were extremely damaging to him. They said that he had savagely attacked the children again and again.
 1t is said that Coleman beat his child to death because he begged on the streets Coleman is a carpenter and made far living but 1t is said that his children were not always well fed. The two ooys begged about on the streets and Coleman heard of 1t. It Is alleged that in uncon- trolled anger he attacked the children who were little hiore than babies. and as a result one of the boys died within few hours.
 Coroner Tice went before Justice B. H Screws and swore out the warrants against Coleman, charging murder Cole man had. in the meanwhile, learned that trouble was brewing and he hid out for a few hours. He had been at work on a building on Washington Street but he could not be found there when the officers went after him yesterday afternoon. La ter in the evening Deputy Sheriff Me I1emore located Coleman when he return ed to the building at night to get his pay He was arrested and quickly lodged ir jail.
 He strenuously denied that he ever whipped his children He said that he did not whip them and he did not allow anybody else to whip them.
 Coroner Tice says that he Is confident that at the preliminary hearing which will be in few days. will result in Cole. | mans being held for murder withou, | bond.