A Horrible Tragedy

A quarrel between two black cooks at Richmond Hotel ends with one man driving “a large carving knife into the breast” of the other, killing him.

A horrible tragedy occurred Tuesday afternoon, August 29th at Richmond Hotel, 9th and Grace Streets, Mrs. Atkinson (white) proprietor. Thomas Entzyminger drove a large carving knife into the breast of Geo. L. Herndon, killing him almost instantly. Both of the men are cooks at this hostelry and are colored men. After the killing Entzyminger ran to his room upstairs in the hotel and was afterwards placed under arrest.

“A Horrible Tragedy,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed October 9, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1254.