The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-23
KILLING MYSTERY
IS NOW SOLVED
PRISONER HAS CONFESSED.
BOB PRITCHARD ADMITS HAVING
KILLED CAESAR WILSON.

Homicide Occurred in Accord With
Theory Given in Morning News
Men Met on street, Having Had
Previous Quarrel, and Pritchard
Used His Knife With Deadly Eff
fect-CIaims Wilson Had Knife,
But There is Nothing to Bear Out
Statement.
Through the persistent efforts of De-
tectives Wall and Murphy the Yama-
craw homicide mystery has been solv-
ed, the guilty man locked up and a
confession secured.
Bob Pritchard, a negro now under
arrest at the police station, admits
having killed Caesar Wilson, the ne
gro, whose tragic death Friday night
was so battling to the officers.
The killing occurred just as stated
In the Morning News, though the ac-
count given was only a theory at the
time. This theory is now proven to
be true, the statement of the slayer
and others coincidmg with the cir
cumstantial evidence as to how the
killing must have taken place
Something of the Homicide.
The first known of the homicide was
when Wilson, mortally wounded and
bleeding profusely, staggered to the
corner of Farm and Margaret street,
fell to the pavement and died.
Where the man came from could
only be told by the trace of blood
that he had left. For half a block he
could be traced and there the trail
was lost. Because of the severe
character of his wound, it was in
ferred that he had been stabbed at
the place where the blood trail ended,
and such has proven to have been the
case. The blood found on the opposite
side of the street was a false trail and
due to a dog fight as has been stated
Pritchard admits doing the stabbing
and says it took place just where was
thought. He claims the man killed
had drawn his own knife and was at
tempting to kill him, but no knife was
found on the dead man. or in the
neighborhood, though the ground in
the vicinity was carefully searched
for a blood trail.
What Pritchard Says.
Pritchard. who admits doing the
stabbing, which resulted in Wilson's
time before at the house of Pinkney
Washington, negro woman now be-
ing held at headquarters.
At this time, Pritchard claims. Will
son drew his knife and threatened him.
Pritchard says further that he took
two bricks and threw them at Will
son. One of his missiles, he claims,
struck the man who was afterwards
killed, and the other went wild.
aI a he 1oft he
womans house to avoid further trou-
BILE. He states that he went up to
West Broad street and bought some
cakes. He was going back down in
Yamacraw, when he accidentally met
Wilson. He claims Wilson drew his
knife and threatened him. He claims
to have stepped out into the street
and told Wilson to let him alone. He
says Wilson advanced on him, and that
he stabbed at him with both the knife
and the sack of cakes in the same
hand.
Detectives Hard Work.
When the detectives were first call
ed out on the case, while the dead
man still lay in the street, there was
nothing at all to help solve the mys-
terry, except the blood trail leading a
hundred feet up the street. Then a
false blood trail was found on the op-
PoollG oluS VI TIE SlEGcl, WHeIe d Jug
fight had taken place. This delayed
the investigation and complicated the
case.
Detectives Wall and Murphy worked
hard on the case. Two men, who
were learned to have been with Will
son a short time before he was
stabbed We're arrested. The woman
was later taken in charge, but she
denied all knowledge of any quarrel
in which Wilson was involved.
1t was about this woman, Pinkney
Washington, that the first quarrel oc-
Cured. She probably knows more
about the matter than she has admit
ted, the detectives believe. Pritchard,
after the stabbing, escaped on n
street car, as was stated in the Morn
ing News. The Washington woman
was on the same car, it has been
learned. The detectives did not learn
until yesterday morning, who the man
was with whom Wilson had had
quarrel They caught Pritchard out
near the Mill-Haven Company short
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