Between 2 and 3 o’clock Sunday morning, Charlie Barnes, colored, was stabbed to death in a house in Springhill township. The exact house in which the crime occurred has not been learned.
An examination of the body after the cutting showed that one of the wounds, penetrating the large artery in the center of the body, was the direct cause of death. It is said that this wound brings death more quicky than a wound directly into the heart.
Four persons, all colored, Rufus Richardson, Lonnie Ruffin, Carl Beckwith, and John Beckwith, are being held by the county authorities in connection with the case.
An inquest was started today by Coroner W.C. Pearson, but it was decided, after several witnesses had been heard, to postpone further inquiry until Monday at 1 o’clock when, it is expected, more direct evidence bearing the affair will be obtained.
Witnesses examined this afternoon before the coroner’s jury included Lottie Ruffin, Jim Boykin, Snow Bakery, and the wife of John Henry McAlister.
A charge of blockading is also preferred against John Beckwith.
From the front page of The Wilson Times, Tuesday, April 22, 1924
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