The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-03-15
GEORGE POINTER BY GEORGE
WOODS.
FREEDMAN FLAT. BLACK BOTTOM"
THIS CRlME-lNFESTED LOCALITY
Is A BLOT AND SHAME ON THIS
CIVIL COMMUNITY BREEDING
PLACE FOR SUCH TRAGEDIES AS
THAT OF SATURDAY NIGHT.

Some one, in substance. once said
that some things we know and some
we do not know; we know that moons
shall wane and summer birds from far
snail cross the sea- but who shall tell
us when to look for death! This is
true in the transitory existence of the
human family, with the exception of
those whose taking off has been de-
creed by some authorized tribual and
Tor some specific cause. They. of
course, know of their numbered DAYS.
according to the ordinary procedure
governing their cases.
Death, at all times and under all cir
cumstanees, is a solemn event; but
t is decidedly narrowing, when it Is
the result of violence-violence which
comes from one human being taking
the life of another
John Woods, gripping a deadly knife
from which ran the life blood of
George Pointer, whom he had cut TO
death, led through the night to some
hiding place away from the scene of
MS crime He had done his murder
Gus work thoroughly-his victim was
dead ere he had put many PAGES be-
| tween them. His aim had been sure
and his thrusts mortal A human life
had been blotted out, and criminal
amenable to God and his country's
laws. He who commits murder is
bound to his crime by that mysterious
cord that God himself ties. Go with
ersoever he will that scarlet line is
attached to him and traces and marks
his wanderings.
Saturday night, March 8, John
Woods, on murder bent went to
| Freedman Flats, corner of Fifth ave
nue. and Kirkman street, and called
George Pointer out and Immediately
proceeded to carry it into execution,
as is inferred from the statements of
Kate Mosely and O'Neal Lytle, both
women hearing the screams of Pointer
and the struggle between the men.
They state that Pointer lived but
short time, dying almost instantly.
The Mosely woman lived near
enough to Pointer to hear Woods
when he knocked on the latter's door
and told him that he wanted to see
him. Pointer came to the door and
Immediately the struggle to the death
commenced. Pointer in the grip of
his mortal foe cried for assistance,
but ere it arrived he was dead.
1t is said that some remark made by
Pointer about his slayer's wife
brought on the encounter. Although
there was an estrangement, it is said,
between husband and wife, he resent
ed in deadly way whatever wrong
cal or imaginary-he thought his vic
tim had been guilty Of.
Quite some time passed before Off
GERS arrived on the scene, and when
they did get there the murderer had
made good his escape. But, however
much time he had to escape, that mys
terious scarlet cord dyed in his crime
will lead to his discovery-his crime
will follow him across states and
even across the years until it points
its avenging finger full in his face and
, saws to Justice: Here is the murderer.
, When the Law shackles the body, Re
morse seizes the soul that is crime
= ridden.
What has been said through these
columns relative to the series Of TRACE
dies which occur in this community
periodically, are borne out by the
5 facts The community is in the throes
+ of one of these ever-recurring epidem-
t les of killings now Three murders
S have been committed within four
weeks.
Other agencies cannot take off the
: Negro fast enough he must do some
: # the thinning process himself. There
. are some people who live next to the
: earth. and what is meant by that is
: they think no high thought; their sole
u rental effort rises no higher than that
Of the swine-eat, drink, grunt (gos
sip) and fight
/ The Globe continues to hang out Its
# red light of warning against these
It wholesale murders which make theil
# advent too frequently. 1t is certain
ly telling against the Negro as a race