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Show A BLACK BRUTE. This morning, one of the most brutal and fiendish crimes ever committed in this city, was perpetrated by a hideous looking negro named James Carter. In a tenement house on Commercial street lives a man named "Pete" Stephens [Stevens'], with his wife and child. Carter has been boarding there for some time, and it came to the knowledge of the police that proceedings of a grossly immoral character were taking place in the day time, during Stevens' absence, between the latter's wife and the negro. The others were on the watch yesterday in an adjoining room, separated from the portion occupied by Stevens and family by a board partition. At six a.m. to-day officer Heleman Pratt took his station in the vacant room, and shortly afterwards a little girl named Ellen Parsons, eleven years old, called at Stevens' house, and was decoyed into the room by Mrs. Stevens and the negro, the latter promising her money. The woman locked the door and stood on the outside while the black brute commenced an outrage upon the child's person. Mr. Pratt rushed out of the room from which he was a witness of what took place, burst open the door of the apartment where Carter was and leveling his pistol on him took him under arrest. Carter kicked and struck at the officer, who then gave him a blow with his club. The negro seized a chain with which he felled the officer, who then gave him a stunning blow, which brought him to the floor. By that time the brute was cowed, and he was taken to the city jail. Mrs. Stevens was also arrested. Both waived an examination and were committed in default of $1,000 bonds to await the action of the grand jury. - News 28 |