Samuel Boyce Kicked To Death

Samuel Boyce, an eiglit year oíd son of William Boyce, residing in Ypsilanti township was kicked by his fatlier so severely on Saturday tliat death followed on Mondjiy. Below will, be found the testimony dedueed ai the Corones' s inquest and the verdict of said body : Martha Hamilton befngdulyBWorn, says : I am ribeteen yearsold; ama resWent of the township of Bumpter, Wayne coiinty. llave beca lo Work fórWilliani lioyce ten weeks; was at work at said Boyce's on the, Hth day of May, 18S0; saw the boy, now dead, that day, Satunlay. Heconiplained of nothin until nignt, wben ne cama to supper; hethencomplained of his stomach. he said lüa stomach htirt lnin U'iribh ; he said his father whipped him. Tl;e next dav at noon I asked him whnt his father whipped tnm with; he sam lie wlii})petl hini with nothing; he said he kicked hira in the stomach, then lie starled to run away and lie kicked Inm in the back below the left shouldcv; lie eomplained of pain in the Btomaeb ; he vomited that niglit once; he slept all night; he gotup in the mörning and dressed himself, and vomited every little while all day. He eomplained all day Sunday of much pain. I could see no niarks on his person Sunday a fternoon. I looked. He raised nothing but water; was sick all day and tliirsty; I saw no blood in wftat he tbrew up; he stated nothing abont being kicked by a horse. Mr. Boyce said nothing about the boy being "kicked until yesterday (Monday) anemoon. He was quite sick SatnrdaV night when he carne in. He, the boy, laid on the carpet most all day Sunday : was sick all that day ; comarx+ï'.i t, vrrv bad Snndav at noon. I told his fallicr (bat he must have whipped him verj; bad. He said he bad not whipped him. He looked bad when he carne in Saturday night ; could not say when or at what time he died Monday night. Mr. Boyce waked me up at two o'clock Monday morning. The boy told me that his rather bad kicked him ; he told me so in the preseiice of bis father. This was Sunday. llis ïathersaid he did not kick hlm, and the boy said, yes you did pa. I said nothing tóTBoyceaböutwhipping Samuel unttl Sunday about noon. He told me that he whipped the boy because he took the horse out of the stable and the horse brok e from him. I saw his fatlier wlien he oame out of the Held. The boy was as well as usual that Saturday; had made no complaint,but bewas bad at coming in the house that Saturday night; he was markiug corn ground in the afternoon. I heard the boy crying at the bain after the hoises came back. Boyce told me Mondáy noon that the hoi-se kicked the boy. That was the flrst time he said anything to me how he got hurt. The boy made no statement of having been kicked by a horse. Mr. ]5oyce asked me Monday noon if I told Mr. Wright that he, Boyce, had kicked the child. I told bim, yes sir. He said he did not kick the child, it was the horse. Mr. lioyce was very kind to the child that Saturday night. Mr. Boyce forbade me telling what the child said ; this was Monday noon; he did not teil me why he did not want me to teil. Sunday noon when T talked to Mr. Boyce about wmpping tlie boy, lie said hé had not whipped him. I told liim he liad kickecl hun ; lie said he was ïit. sorry to think lie had abused tlie child. Isaw hkn.at one time kick the child previous to this. I said nothing to Boyce at that time. I have been on good terina with Mr. Boyce, and have had no tfouble. Snbscribed and sworn to before me, this llth day of May, 1880. W.IRVIXCx YECKLEY, Justice of the Peace. Edward Batwell, being duly sworn, testifled : That he is a practicing physician and surgeon, and resides in Ypsilanti, and has been in practice 84 years. That he made a post mortem examination of the body of Samuel Boyce on the forenoon of May llth. isso. Ile found that death was caused from acute peritonitis. That he discovered on the left side of the abdomen a little above the lcft groin evidenee of direct violence, and farther back tovvards the spine similar bruises. The gall bladder was rnptured and its contents weré dilïused through the cavity f the peritoneum, bnt found no visible Djury of the walla of the abdomen over he place. In his opinión the canse of ;his peritonitis was direct violence. but iov it was produced he is unable to tate. The cause of bis death was the teritonitis. There was no indications if chronic dipease through the contents of the abdomen. The bruises were disiinct and produced by one blow. A liLht kick or blow would produce this nflammation. EDWARD BATWELL, M. D. Rubscribed and sworn to before rr.e, this llth vv f' M" 1SO. W. IRVIJTG YECKLEY, Justice of the Peace. State of Michigan-, ) „„ Connty of Washtenaw, f Ba An inquesition taken at the to-wnship of Ypsilanti, in said county of Washtenaw, on üie Ilth day of May, before W rving Yeckley, one of the Justices ot ;he Peace of tlïe said county, upon th view of the body of Samuel Boyce, theving dead, by the oaths of the jurors whose mimes are hereto subscribed who being sworn to inquire in behal of the People of this State, when, ii whttt manner, and by wliat means the said Samuel Boyce cane to his deatli ïpon their oaths do say : Tliat the sai( Samuel Boyce came to his death Monlay morning abont one o'clock, at the residence of his fathcr, William Boyce m the townsliip of Ypsilanti, Washtelaw connty, State of Michigan, by vioient kicks received from his father William Boyce, me on the left groii nul the otheï on 'he back on same side said kicks admini tered by said Boyce on tlie 8th day of May, 1880. but without intending to take life, cauaing ü Jeath of the said Sa-rmel Boycei In testiinony whereof thè said.Tustice of the Peace, and tho jurors of this in quest have hereto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. W. IHVIXCt YECKLEY, Justice of the Pcace. Peter Dickerson, Sam. II. Fletcher David II. Campbell, Wm. Day, Hy'".II. Iloneyweil, Warren Amennan, Harrison Iluthruff , Jurors. Note the contrast! Blaine and John sheiina i have become milüonalrea out f politics. Senator Gordon of Georgia s so poor that he has resigned in order toglvehis timeto thepractiee of the law that his family may be properly mpported. Ex-Gov. Brown is appointed to the vacancy. Jesse Billin-s on trial the secondtime cbarged with killing his wife by shootiiiíí lier through a window, has been acquitted. The trial took place at B&Ü8ton, N. F. and was of great interest in that locality. Fools are not all dead. A large number repaired to Washington on Wednesday to witness the Ilanlan-Courtney race, in which Covirtney threw up the sponge beiore the first round. The llepublicans of Illinois were in convention yesterday at Springfield.- ihe Grant wing has a majority and ■vill nndoubtedly carry the convention in his interest. All accounts agree that Mr. Tilden is paralyzed as to whether he will be a candidate at Cincinnati, vtáif not.who will be his favorita there? If the senatorial syndicale is unable to pull "the old man"' through at Chicago, why not settle upon his old frient . oss Shepheïd? The house after passing the legislativo and executive appropriation bill agrecd to adjourn May 31 Politics ahi't what they were inTha' Steven 's day. "Whlch-side is he on"' settled his vote-in a contestad electioá case. The demócrata were gnilty last week of defeating one of their nuraber, Mr. Curtió of Pennaylvania, who contested the seat of republican-greenback Yocum.