Year: 1859




charge of stealing number of carpenters tools,
the property of Geo. Kraft. He was committed
for Court by Justice Ridgaway.
Michael Hogan and Charles l.. Hinson were ar
rested, charged with assaulting each other. They
were committed for Court by Justice Ridgaway.


yesterday evening, detective officer Stevens and
officer Jans arrested four negroes named Alfred |
Williams, William johnson, Robert Harris and
Charles Dixon the charge of stealing different
articles from off the Norfolk steamboats,. They |
have been engaged in loading the boats at the
wharf in this city, and at different times, articles
have been stolen. Yesterday they were detected,
and taken before Justice Hayward, who committed
them for further hearing.
CORONER'S INQUEST IN TIE CASE OF A.


b. KYLE, JR.
Yesterday afternoon the jury previously sum-
moned in relation to the cause of the death of fAdam
b. Kyle, Jr., met at Coroner Battees Office in
Hanover street, when the following evidence was
| adduced
Mrs. Dochtermann, corner of QUAY aev and
Light street, into whose premises Mr. X yle ran for
shelter, the first witness examined, and being
duly sworn, testified THAT she heard good deal
OF sharp firing and up stairs to her front room
In the second story, and on looking out great
number of persons with pistols, but did not then
recognize Mr. Kyle. Being afraid of some danger,
she told her husband to go and put the bolt in the
front door. He went and whilst in the act of doing
so Mr. Kyle came to the door, and earnestly begged
OF him for admission, which was Immediately gran
ted, and as he entered, the bolt was put
upon the door. In the meantime, both Mrs. Doch-
! termann and her husband were on the first
! toOr, along with Mr.. Kyle, and she hearing
! the noise and hammering at her door to
gain admission, was jealous in her appeals for
! him to 90 up stairs. 'sNo," he replied "let
me out, for they will kill at any rate; but she
pushed him up the stairs; meantime the ruifianS
had gained admission to her house, by forcing open
the door, and began to beat her husband most un-
| merctuy for shelering Mr.. Kyle; seeing the con-
dition in which her husband was and recognizing
| man by the name of John Higgins, who is police
substitute but who appears not to have been du-
ty on the day in question, she appealed to him to
protect her husband, to whose relief higgins in
stanty ran, thereby saving his life; much fright
ened and excited had Mrs Dochtermann become by
the assault on her husband that she forgot about
Mr. kyles presence, and sat herself down on a set
tee to rest, butScarcey had she done so, when she
heard one of her doors the third story broken
| open. 1t appears that into this room Mr. KYLE |
had retreaed for safety and upon the sound of the
door bursting in, she went up stairs but had not
assembled far, when she beheld four five men COM
ing down with Mr. X yle walking quietly in front of
them, apparently, offering resistance.
There was one man in that gang to whom her
attention was particularly liked. He short
man, black hair with rough coat and cap on and
kept all the while with pistol cooked towards
Kyle; to this Mrs. d. repeatedly and ferveutly
appealed not to Shoot but all in vain, for several of
| those in the room, of whom she said there were
about twenty-five in all, cried to shoot the of
b; this rufian in black hair and rough coat be-
fore alluded to, had ascended the first flight of
stairs till within about three steps of the platform
meeting, it were, Mr. vie on his way down; at
Mr.. kyle's back, on the second flight of stairs,
there were four or five other men; Mr. Kyle being
| in front; when the deceased had descended till
within about three steps of the first platform, his
| attention attracted to something behind,
caused either by some remark to see the sort of
fellows in his rear, and just he inclined
| his head, this man on the raised his arm Ee-
| hind him and fired his pistol, which Mr.. Kyle
sank down; when Kyle came into her house he had
no weapon displayed, but kept his hand his
thigh as if suffering in tensely; she much
cited that she unable to recognise any men in
the house except higgins, whom she previously
knew; higgins did not 60 up stairs, but remained
to assist her husband in repairing the door; imme
dately on the firing of the fatal shot Mr.. Kyle,
the whole gang of murderers flew out of the house,
and she supposed that those that the stairs
farther up had trampled Mr. Kyle in their eager
ness to quit the sight Of their foul deed.


THE testimony of this witness, who is a German
was given in broken English, so much so, that the
jurors, upon her first examination, were under the
impression that the fatal shot was fired by
behind him, when it fired from the front. The
witness was recalled, and satisfactorily explained
to the jury the manner in which the deceased came
to his death. and the remarks of DR.. Baltze, given
before the witness was re-examned, were quiteper-
tinent to the evidence, as understood then before
the jury


Mrs. Eibacter Lee street near Light gave short
testimony, but it had no bearing as how the de-
ceased came to his death. She saw in looking out
at her window, about six persons with pistols in
their hands after George Kyle, and some throwing
bricks at him. He ran up Lee street pursued by
| about six persons with pistols.


DIR. Baltzell teStifed-The cause of the death of
the deceased was pistol ball, which struck the base
of the skull and passed directly along, destroying
the internal ear and striking the optic nerve. The
ball was never removed, and the case of Mr., Kyle
was of the most tenacious witness had ever
known, for, in his practice, he had had several
cases of shooting. He called in Professor Smith,
and it was his opinion that deceased could not have
survived, from the nature of the wound three
hours. He was called on to attend him about
quarter past nine on the morning of Wednesday,
After death they discovered another wound, which
had entered above the left kidney and passed out
nearly opposite. They did not disturb him
whilst alive, they knew that the wound
in the head was sufficient to cause DEATH He
must have been ascending the stairs when
| shot, as the ball took upward tendency,
| If he had been shot downwards, deceased could
have never breathed after it. Deceased had inter
walls of consciousness. The first word Mr.. Kyle
uttered was the Doctors name, and then "home,
home, home" Whilst attending him, he asked for
water and ice The witness fed him with ice
long as he could keep his jaws open. Towards,
evening deceased complained Of cold feet but said
nothing whatever about the shooting. His con-
sciousness only came for short lime, and when he
caught idea he uttered it with one word, and
| then it gone. He ate the ice with avidty.
Witness did not think he was conscious of any suf-
tering, for he thought the nerves Of sensation
were in a destroyed. Witness in
serted his probe into the wound, and followed
the direct track of the ball, which occupied but
few minutes. Had the ball gone upwards probe
could have followed it. The nerves of vision must
have been materially DESTROYED, and he thought
deceased could not have heard any sound for if he
could, it would have been very painful. The ball
was from revolver single rife pistol. Before
concluding, the Doctor took occasion to remark
that he had been asked several times by different
parties, if Mr.. Kyle exOnerated those who shot him
from blame, and he said, most positively and under
oath, that Mr. Kyle never, in the remotest degree,
made any allusion to him about the shooting in any
form whatever, and therefore, the exoneration of
his murderers would be absurd. There were thou
sands of things said as coming from different per-
sons, but he for one dsclaimed anything in the
way of exoneratOn as coming from either of the
Messrs. Kyle. His attentions purely of a
medical character. By the death of deceased he
had lost one of the best friends he ever had in his
life. He him at the polls until the
father of deceased sent after him to attend his


Wesley Hale, the only policeman in uniform at
the polls during the shooting, testified-That he did
not know who shot Mr.. Kyle; he was standing at
the of York and Lee streets when the Messrs.
Kyle came to the polls about so IS per-
sons at the corner of Lee and Light streets; wit
ness was standing talking to man when he heard


the report of pistol, turned round and that it
fired by in the street in front of the polls
and farther up the street he boy in half re-
clining posture, and ran and assisted in taking him
up; shortly after that he met George Kyle at the
corner of Lee street; George asked witness if his
brother went home, he being then without his hat,
and he answered eyes, and that be had better go
home too;" he asked witness to look for his hat


which he did, and whilst doing So more of
the matter; after the pistol fired before alluded


to, it time after that till he looked and
the boy down, Mr.. Kyle and the boy being about
two yards Distant in second after the firing of the
pistol. he supposed about 100 shots fired, good
many firing at Mr.. Kyle; this happened about a
quarter to nine O'clock the judges of election being
present at the polls; the time the pistol was fired
when the boy fell when a gentlemen stopped
witness to ask if they were going to have quiet
election.


VIM. Armiger testified, that about twenty min
utes before nine, gentleman out in the street.


Shortly after that, scuffie took place, and some
one came to him. and struck him the side of the
head, and witness thought he knocked down by
the blow. He afterwards learned that this was
Adam. As he up after the fall, he put his


hand in his pocket and drew out revolver. He


saw him point the revolver, but did not know whe-


ther he fired or not, he went round the corner,
but when round, he heard great deal of firing
After the firing had ceased, he again came round,


and went to the polls. Some one told him that a


man had been killed, and that was the first time he
knew that anybody had been shot. At the time he
saw the man in the middle of the street struck, wit
ness standing at the corner of Light and York