The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-03-01
SAM MABRY SLAIN BY New
TON SMITH.
THEY HAD BEEN FAST FRIENDS, so
1T Is SAID.
OVER SOME TRIVIAL AFFAIRS
BAD FEELINGS WERE ENGEN-
DERED, WHICH LED TO THE EN-.
COUNTER BETWEEN THE TWO
YOUNG MEN, AND THE TRAGIC
DEATH OF MABRY.

Sometime ago there was something
said in this paper of the killing of each
other by class of our people in this
community which seems to be period
ically epidemic.
Last week the public had dished
out to it an account of one young Ne
gro woman cutting to death another
over nasty love affair between them
and white man. Both of these WON
en- had come up together from child
hood, being reared by the same wom-
an who was the mother of one of them.
But environments and evil associa-
tlons tore asunder the bond of friend
ship which had been formed during
the earlier years of their home-life
and constant companionship.
This week the public has another
sensational killing. This time the par
ties to the tragedy are two young Ne
gro men.
Wednesday morning, February 27,
in the brickyard belonging to w. G.
Bush & Co. Sam Mabry was killed by
Newton Smith. Smith claims, it is
said, that the difficulty was brought
on by Mabry. He said that during the
morning he got into Mabrys way and
the latter cursed him, whereupon he
got a brick and throwing it, struck
Mabry whom he killed. He claims
that he had no intention Of committing
murder but, to our thinking, that will
be much harder to prove than it is to
say.
Smith claims that Mabry was the
! aggressor, but the statements made by
those who saw the whole affair are
rather damaging and do not bear him
out in his claims He is said to have
thrown the brick at Mabry while the
latter was upon ladder.
| 1t is not the purpose of this write
up" to pass upon the credibility of the
statements of those who witnessed the
difficulty, that lies wholly within the
province of the Criminal Court; but
| It's purpose is to give an account of
what is fact: The death or killing
of Sam Mabry by Newton Smith.
1t should be and, in fact, is the legi-
innate province and mission of every
Negro newspaper to spread among it's
people the doctrine of wholesome and
worthy citizenship; to give to them adj
vice in all that pertains to their well
fare; to point out their faults and con-
done nothing that savors of reckless
ness and folly; to commend them for
their right efforts, and, in short, to
point them to the highest ideals and
lead the way.
There are lots of our young men
and women who read so little that
they have no conception of what that
great force, public opinion, Isl and,
therefore, they do not hear it's warn
ing voice nor note its ugly, savage Wis
sge until they have stepped beyond
the fatal line-outside the pale OF the
law. Then they hear and see, too late,
what before they could not hear nor
see.
Newspapers which chronicle the do
ings of the times, the harbingers of all
that transpires in our civilization, are
20 much rubbish to a certain element
of our people, and that certain element
is the one that furnishes the majority
Of cases for the docket of the Criminal
Courts Their minds are bristling with
the thistles and thorns of bullyism-
blind, unTeasoning bullyism which,
when once aroused, will not be sati.
ated until it has tasted blood-blood
which, ere it has had time to gloat
over, pals on its taste.
Murder is a grievous thing an, seen
from whatever point of view, is al
ways shocking and revolving. From
the first-of Abel by Cain--down
through the ages to now, it is one Of
those sins against society that it never
altogether forgets and, therefore, new
er forgives. The taker of human life
drags out his existence among his fell
lowmen a branded Cain" with the
ghastly image Of his victim ever be-
fore his mind and preying upon his inn
agination.
In the Smith-Mabry tragedy, even If
what Smith says concerning Mabry
cursing him, the proyocation did not
justify his going to the extremity OF
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