May 21, 2025
DIDN'T WANT ADAM GOD COIN.
Negro Who Had a Blood-Stained
Nickel Gives It Away.
The actual trial of James Sharp, street preacher, will begin this morning in the criminal court. By that time the jury will have been selected from among the fifty-seven men who were chosen Tuesday and Wednesday. Sharp no doubt will have something to say about the jury. Whether he will go on the stand has not yet been decided.
Lon Benton, the negro janitor at the city market, was standing in the property clerk's office at police headquarters yesterday morning, when Adam God's overcoat was brought from behind the counter preparatory to a trip to the court house, where it is to be used in evidence. A nickel, rusted with blood stains fell out of one of the pockets, and Lon picked it up. A half dozen men, anxious to own the souvenir, offered to buy the coin, but Lon refused to part with it.
Late in the afternoon, he approached Patrick Boyle, the shortstop, in front of the desk and handed him the coin.
"Take it," he said. "I got to thinking after I put it in my pocket that it would bring me bad luck, and you couldn't hire me to keep it now."
Patrolman Boyle does not believe in bad luck signs and is now exhibiting a memento of the riot.
Labels: Adam God sect, city market, police
