The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-27
Yet Other Phases of the Story.
Especial to News and Observer


Greensboro, IN. c., Sept. 26.-A
bloody tragedy. resulting in the death
of a man and his wife, and the prob
able death of a sixteen-year-old girl,
startled the people of Kernersville,
fifteen miles from here. this morning
at EIGHT o'clock.
In a residence only few yards dis
tant from the Southern Railway pas
senger station, lived Lewis Carmichael,
his wife and a step-daughter. Miss
Anna DwigginS. Pistol shots in the
house at eight o'clock this morning
attracted attention and people looking
in that direction saw a woman lying
in the street Immediately in front of
the house. AS they hurried to her. it
was found to be Mrs. Carmichael,
gasping IN the throes of death. her
throat cut from ear to ear. apparent
ly with a razor. She was totally un-
conscious, and strong hands lifted her
up and bore her into the home. her
breathing ceasing just as they enter
ed the gate. She was dead. without
having uttered sound.
When the woman was taken into
the house. an awful sight met the
gaze of her bearers. Lying on the
floor in a pool of blood. was the
daughter, blood flowing from a terri
BILE cash across her left breast. her
night gown soaked in blood and the
cut across it by the razor leaving her
flesh bare and the gaping cash
prominent.
In the s. me room. filled with smoke
of pistol. lay outstretched in a corn
er writhing in blood and murderous
agony of death q stalwart man. Lewis
Carmichael the husband and step
father. His throat also bore a gap
ing cash from which blood was flow
ing in fitful spurts, and from two
n nix fnI IN
and brains were slowly oozing. From
the passage to the door. on the walk
of the sidewalk, on the steps and
door sill was n Sickening trail of
blood which the fleeing Mrs. Car
michael had left as she ran to the
street from the death dealing swipe of
the razor which Carmichael. in his
fury of passion. had dealt her.
DR.. Ashworth was hastily sum-
moned. and had Miss Anna taken to
another room. Her wound, which
consisted of a cash across her left
breast, was found to be not deep, and
as soon as the bleeding was staunched
Sho revived.
1t took sixteen stitches to SOW it up
and by ten O'Clock Miss Anna had re-
covered sufficiently to give enough of
that her steD father had quarreled
with her mother. She was awaken
ed by an angry alteration, and arose
from her bed and went to the room
where they were having the dispute,
just in time to see Carmichael with
razor brandishing il in his hand.
standing over his wife. who was on
her knees at a trunk in the room. ap-
parently not fearing a death stroke
from her husband. The girl scream
ing. rushed to the pair. and before she
reached them, Carmichael had slash
ed the throat of his wife, and had
the razor ready to cut her, it missing
her throat and making the awful
wound in her breast. AS Mrs. Car
michael rushed out the door with her
throat pouring out blood. she was un-
able 20 make q noise, but her daugh-
ter says she caught the glimpse OF
her eye, just as she passed her. and
as the razor sank into her breast and
it was full of intelligence, as well as
horror. Carmichael must then have
cut his throat, and finding il was not
enough to kill. must have crossed
over to the corner where his BODY
was found. trailing blood across the
room, got = pistol out Of the drawer
OF a bureau. and shot himself four
times Two balls took effect in his
head, one had grazed the side Of his
neck and one had cut through the
lobe Of his ear. showing that his aim
had become bad. either the first two
or the last two shots.
He lived until eleven o'clock, dying
without having regained conscious
ness.
The dead man was sixty-fve years
old and 2 carpenter. The immediate
cause of the quarrel this morning is
shrouded in mystery.
1t is said that yesterday, the wife
had forbid the home to Carmichael,
and he had said he would live with
her in peace or kill her. Both will
be buried tomorrow. The physician
thinks the young woman will recover.