Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-06
NEGRO MURDERER
TAKEN FROM CITY
TO COUNTY JAIL
william Carter, Confessed Slayer oil
Peter JelVek, Held Under Cor
oner's Mittimus.
JURY FINDS HIN THE ASSAILAST
Probe Conducted BY Inquisit0riaI
Body Reveals Little New Light
On Case.

william Carter, Negro prowler who
confessed TO numbering Peter Jelvek
IN cold blood IN the Eberhardt apart
menfs 1924 Fourth avenue Sunday
morning. is now held in the county
jaU under a cOrouer's mittimus.
Following action taken by the cor
oners fury which investigated into the
shaving Of the Minneapolis carpenter.
at the Moeller undertaking parlors last
night Coroner John G Miller issued
tie mIJtimns and Carter was removed
gr0m the city 10 the county jail.
Tho roroHers jury returned a YER
dI5r thar Ielvck came TO his death by
gun shot wound from a 3S-calbre
Coils special revolver, the shot being
fred nv William Carter, colored. with
unlawful intent The jury consisted
NJ the following Jurors: ". r. Schil-
lneer. vs.. a. Frewert. c. A. Walker,
Albert ~ Brandenhurg, X. j.
sehVecke and Cornelius Donovan.
DR. g. n. Mueller testified that
death was due 10 a wound through
ttc hear and lungs causing an in
te-Dal hemorrhaEo The physician said
I1lvos could not have lived more than
thirty seconds after the shot had been
fired
Ha'Irari B8ncstod. who was lying in
bed with jelgck at the time of the fatal
shooting. said he and JelYek woke up
8s usual abou, 4.30 o'clock Sunday
morning lie said as the Negro stuck
hs head In the room Pete cried Get
Die d. out Of here but the Negro
came closer and close- TO the bed and
Jc'ycS raised up in bed and repeated
Tho command The Negro then shoot
ing The victim fell back on the pill
low
"Tbe Negro slowly backed towards
The door with the gun leyeled at me,
BanEst1d said He opened the door
slowly and when he entered the hal
he made haste down the stairs and out
side. Immediately called the other
boys and told them that Pete was shot
Bv that time others of the household
were I'D"
Awakened BY Shot.
r. g. EberharGt, who conducts tht
rooming house, told the jury that h
was awakened by the shot. but as h
W8s leaving his room other men hat
come downstairs TO tell him of th'
shooting.
81 heard the man leave the house
hut did not see him | immediatel,
called the police station and soon afte
officers and a physician arrived" Mr.
Eberhlrdt said.
patrolman Dick Eell. who with Off
GER nUrmau made the capture testifier
g.. follows: II reported from the pc
bee box on Tweuty-siXth street am
Ii'tn avenue about 40 O'Clock Sun
DAY morning and az that time l re
ceiyej no Information concerning tn
shooting The first / heard OF it wa
when / entered the station few min
u'es later and was told to get ready t
go 90 Twenty-tnird street and Fourt
avenue, where a man had been mur
dcrod With Officers Durham, Berry
Sullivan Swazey and Miller I boarde
% Bridge line car in front of the post
Office about 4,45 O'Clock We left tn
car at Twenty-third street and Thir
avenue when We saw a Negro run OF
Of nearby restaurant conducted b
ftN 3 h'|t. w .NA llN saw hS At AAl Z
up his hands and called to the condut
Tor 40 hold the car until he got HI
clange which he left in the restal
rant I ran INFO the restaurant wit
0Ncer Durham and grabbed him.
Jqd Durham 10 search him and 81
calinr- revolver was found in his il
side coat pocket I asked him how Ion
he had been there and he replied thi
0o wa playing cards there all nigh
but the proprietor Of the restaural
said that he had not been there long,
than three minutes. We took him ov'
to the Eberhardt residence where tt
patr was standing and he was take
Goo the station
smelled Powder Fumes.
Captain Eittilsen said that he vi