The Mt. Sterling Advocate

STABBED TO DEATH
Was W. L. Royse, of Sharpsburg.
A Medical Student at Louisville.

On last Thursday afternoon John Withers, assistant Janitor of the Kentucky School of Medicine was drunk. He is very mean when in this condition.

This afternoon Mr. Royse was in charge and seeing the negro in this condition asked him to go away and not return until he became sober.

Later in the evening the drunken negro returned and his very actions indicated impudence. He passed through and closed the door with a slam. Royse spoke to him again and the negro becoming insulted, Royse pushed him and he went to the bottom of the steps and returning without a word drove a blade into the heart of young Royse killing him instantly.

The negro fled and after some time was caught by the police and hurried to the County Jail. Enraged students of the college were in close pursuit and had they found him he would doubtless have been swung to the first limb.

Young Royse was 27 years old, a model young man free from all bad habits and very popular at his home. His death was the cause of real sorrow and the fond mother was prostrated with grief. His remains reached here Friday accompanied by four students and one of the faculty and was met by about fifty of the young man's friends.

His remains were conducted to his home and on Saturday a large crowd met to pay the last sad rites. Funeral was preached by Rev. F. J. Cheek and burial took place in Carlisle Cemetery.