People v. Colvin

On July 28, 1919, race riots between the white and the black people were in progress in the vicinity of Thirty-sixth and State streets, in what is called the° “black belt,” in Chicago. At about 4:30 in the afternoon of that day Morris Lazzeroni, a banana peddler, who was driving his horse and wagon south on State street, was murdered near No. 3626 by stabbing him in the abdomen in two places, cutting into his stomach through the center to the breast bone, and he was also cut on the right arm, right wrist and" right thigh and on the corner of his mouth. He fell from his wagon, and at about…