The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-10
JURY SAID MURDER
my FOREMAN KILLED WITH
H. OUT PROvoCATIoN.
VICIOUS SLABS DESCRIBED.
rssES SAID ALEX BoWEN's
VICTIM WAS UNARMED.

morris Jury Heard story OF the
,,+t;ur in BoweD's Restaurant on
49, Street-Dead Mans Sister,
,,t,o Is Employed as Cook In
IT, PIace. Made a Clear and Con-
i.o statement - Bowen Pfckeu
"a. Quarrel and Was Slapped by
,--o,un After Using Vile Lam
,o TNvice-The Blow in the
,,aoo From an Open Hand Prompt
haven TO Plunge His Knife In
uoraman's ShOulder-An of the
witnesses Agree That Foreman
mad Neither Razor or Bottle ms
chorred by the Murderer
4, The coroner's inquest held last
1870 at police headquarters Alex
-,s,.o, was held for the murder Of
+1.nrv Foreman at River street and
coffee alley a few days before Christ
u,os The witnesses testified that
r,oreman was unarmed when he was
..ohhad twice in the right shoulder
by Bowen.
with two exceptions the witnesses
,ho had been summoned appeared un-
willing and in the opinion of the jury
.b.v had been talked to in the interest
r tho prisoner. Only two persons could
10 secured who would testify that they
.o, Bowen strike the blows which
,o+sr caused lockjaw and the death Of
Foreman. DR.. G. w. Heriot, who at
landed the wounded negro, testified
tbet death was due to tetanus result
ING from the knife wounds. The ply
sician stated that he had been sum
noned by the uncle of the man who
committed the assault.
Glen Foreman, a sister of the dead
man. and employed as a cook in Bow
en's restaurant, where the trouble oc-
rurred, saw the fight from start to fin
sb and made a clear statement of the
happenings that led up to the actual
death assault. The woman said she
called Bowen into the kitchen, and sent
him for a bucket of water. During his
9bsence her brother entered and sat
down by the fire. When Bowen re-
hrned with the water he ordered Fore
man out of the chair, but he refused
to get up.
Foreman said he was cold and told
Bowen to get another chair and sit
down. Bowen warned him if he did
not gel up he would be told something
bad" Foreman still refused to surren-
der the chair and Bowen used some
vile language. Foreman warned him
that If ne repeated it he would get
blow in reply. The woman claimed that
Bowen repeated his language, and that
her brother struck him in the face
with the back of his hand. Bowen then
drew his knife and stabbed her brother
twice. and got out of the restaurant
Immediately.
Henry Louis. a negro, who was in
the room at the time of the cutting,
made d statement similar to that of
the Foreman woman, and said that the
other persons in the room were looking
at the men when the cutting occurred,
and must have seen Bowen strike the
blows Those denied this, however, al
though they agreed that Foreman was
urarmed and did not have a razor and
bottle as charged by Bowen in his
statement to a representative of the
Morning News. With the exception of
the sister of the dead negro the wit
nesSes stated there was a brief tussle
between the two men before Foreman
cried out that he had been stabbed.
All OF the witnesses agree as to other
Details, and the jury returned the YER
Qlct or murder without heSifatinQ