The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-05-04
NEGRO FIEND MADE
SECOND ATTACK
Victims, However, Will Probably
Be Able to Recognize Him.
Daughter of Couple Escaped.
No Reason to Think White
Man Committed Crime.

Further details of the murderous at
tack of a negro upon the Marshall
family are given in the following spe-
ciaI:
BRISTOL, VA, Special.-The case
OF the wholesale bUtChery of the Mar
shall family in Bristol last Friday
night furnishes the deepest riddle the
local police and detectives have been
called into the case have. ever at
tempted TO solve. About 1890 o'clock
at night a negro entered the Marshall
home and frightfully stabbed three
members of the family. He cut the
aged John Marshall's throat from ear
10 ear, seNering the windpipe, but al
most miraculously missing the fatal
artery. He cut Mrs. Marshalrs throat
In frightful manner, but as she was
cut from the back of the neck the
razor did not reach her jugular vein
The seven-year-old adopted son was
trightfully carved by the colored
Jack-the- Ripper as he went from he'd
TO bed slashing the throats of the oc-
cupants He disappeared. and though
an accurate description was furnished
OF the negro the police have failed to
get any response from their efforts.
Inc generally accepted theory is
that the Negroes purpose was to muir
der the aged couple and boy while
they slept and assault Mrs Lottie
Prltchard, the cOmelY widowed daugh-
NSA VI MI ana MIS-. PrltCDard. She.
however, was not injured. When NJ
Marshall aWoke the negro was bend
ing over him and in the act of cut
unE ms throat An instant later tho
razor struck and his throat was cut
almost from ear to ear and the wind
pipe was completely severed. Unable
TO speak and with a sensation that "a.
was smothering. Mr.. Marshall spran.
upon tire negro. He struck him with "a
chair, but as he came down with the
H.. ID
been Sapped. and while the negro was
carving the old man into insensihilitv
Mrs. Marshall aWokc. Her Irst ..,-
pulse was that her husband was haI-
ing a nightmare. She sprung from
the bed and caught hold of him. As
she did the negro caught her. and
pinning her head, slashed her throat.
lie also cut her in the face. head anC
elsewhere and left both her and the
old man for dead. In this time the lit
tie boy. who slept in an adjoining room
with Mrs. Pritchard had awakened.
and his screams awOke Mrs. Pritchard
In the struggles the stove had been
turned over and the noise aroused q
number OF neighhors. Mrs. Pritchard
dashed into the room to find her par
ents on the floor, apparently dead. and
the neeinS form of a man through
the front door. She screamed and the
boy continued his screams. He had
already been cut and the theory is
the one who went behind cut the boy.
He was slashed while he silent.
Made Second Attack.
y moment later Mrs. Pritchard
heard the negro coming back and she
sprang behind a door. The negro evil
IDENTITY thought that it was the mother
screaming, so he reached over ana
slashed her With his razor few !
times. He went To the PROSTATE form |
OF the old man and slashed him. at
the same time dealing Mrs. Marshall |
and the boy heavy blows with what |
must have been blackjack.
Mrs. Pritchard remained hidden |
and the noise OF neighbors coming |
caused the negro to flee. He did not /
get away in time TO prevent being /
He ran block and threw his bloody /
razor into a yard. Large pieces Of |
the blade found in the necks OF Mr.. |
and Mrs. Marshall fit eXactly-into the 1
gaps in the razor SO there is no Ques- !
ton as to its identity.
\ report was started that a love |
affair of Mrs. Pritchard's was in some !
way connected with the case and that |
II was white man who did the stab l.
bling, but ten minutes after the cut
ting Mrs. Pritchard told her story |
When his Windpipe was seWed OD and /
he was able to talk Mr.. Marshall gave |
the same account. When Mrs Mar |
shall recovered consciousness she told |
the same story. so that there could !
have been no chance for its concoc-
ton. The police believe il was ne
gro.
The Marshall family knew the
names of faces of the negroes in that
neighborhood, and many in the city |
and they all say that it was a strange |
negro. They describe him as yellow, /
with a reddish tinge, kinky hair and 4
short moustache, and wearing a black Il
hat and brown clothes.
The Governor will be asked this II
week to offer a reward.