Noah
Tinker
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 11 January 1882, page 9
An inquest was held on the body of Noah Tinker yesterday evening at 7 pm before Coroner C B Schoolfield. Dr. George B Orr, Dr. D C Thomas and Dr. F A Davis, who made a post mortem examination of the remains, testified the deceased died from cerebral spinal meningitis, induced by a knife cut in the back of the neck one-half inch in length, located midway between the second and third vertebrae.
The testimony of four witnesses, Michael Kelly, Thomas Walls, Edward Dehner, and Bernard Plagger, was added showing that while the deceased and John Leonard were in the saloon of Thomas Walls, on the corner of Brighton and Goodman streets, in Newport, the night of the 2nd of January, the latter tried to provoke a quarrel with the former, but failing this stepped up behind him as he was going out of the saloon and stabbed him twice with a knife in the back of the neck.
The jury returned the following verdict: "We, the jury impaneled by the Coroner of Campbell county find that the deceased came to his death by cerebral spinal meningitis, super induced by a wound from a knife in the hands of John Leonard."