Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1896, Page 3

CSS SSS SPECIAL NOTICES. oF TO THE LATE nee a soe oF AOE eine over mest “Hospital for the Insane, in common with the whole community, have ‘of De. Joseph M July. 1 . Joseph M. se than twenty yeers an active member board, and for the last thirteen years its officer; therefore Pigesolted, ‘That the death of our honored asso- clate brings to us no common bereavement. Fill- ing, as he did, so wide a field of eminence in the scientific, the throple, the social and the literary world, his passing creates a vold in many circles that will long note his vacant chalr. Of Hs pre-eminent merit, his great industry and pelnstaking research, bis talents most worthily employed in so many and such varied walks of usefulness and fame there will be no lack of hon- orable mention elsewhere. It 1s for us to mourn our personal friend in his work for humanity here, outside the world’s acclaim, in this his labor of bi love for so Wany years. aMnolved, That St. Eiizabeth ts tm no_ small degree an’ outgrowth of his loving kindness and céfe. Tis inmates had come to look upon him, # ther, patient to listen to the! . femur in Ie solicitude for their best good. "That cheerful face was a frequent and ever welcome Misftor within its wards. Broad in his humanity and practical in bis ways, ever striving for the bighest attainments in the enlightened care cf Sts Inmates, under bis counsel and guidance the ptogress of the institution came to be always enward and upward. So the buildings that bear his nee, the pleasant grounds where he so often walked and lingered lovingly, the very atmos- phere and spirit of the place, have all grown redolent with memory of him. Resolved, That we who have been so happily associated with him in this humane work bear loving testireny to his great nobleness and worth. But yesterday, looking to @he future's needs, we took sweet counsel torether. Hereafter, meeting at cur rooms, we shall sadly miss the pleasant converse, the calm philosophy and, philanthropy so wisely biended, the generous impulses, genial Christian in feeling and necting, the per- fectly rounded man. There remains for us the sorrow, for him the rest, well earned; a rest, let tus hope, not wholly wnmindful now of this loving mevnory and the good name that survives, will outlast the marble. The above resolutions were adopted by the Board of Visitors of the Government Hospital for Insane, August 4, 1896. = MENS’ W. GODDING, Supt. Ex-offcto Secretary of ‘the Board. St. Elizabeth, August 5, 1806. OFFICE OF THE EXCISH BOARD OF THE DIS- triet of Columbia, Washington, August 5, 1896.— Application for transfer of wholesale liquor license from €. 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Brien is resent clerk Judge Campbell's police court. = THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,.1896-TEN PAGES, MATTHEWS ON OATH The Suspected Murderer Held for the Coroner's Jury. HE DENIES IMPROPER RELATIONS Mrs. Irwin Too Hysterical to Give Her Testimony. THE GENERAL OPINION ———+—_— Spectal Dispatch to The Evening Star. COX’S STATION, Charles county, Md., August 5.—The horrible murder of James Irwin Sunday night has thoroughly aroused the whole county, and about the vicinity of Allen's Fresh the scare is almost equal to that which so excited the people of Washington during the operations of “Jack the Slasher” not very long ago. Even the strong men are badly frightened, and the Place is completely demoralized. Although the weather has been warm since the mur- der was committed, at almost every house about Allen’s Fresh windows and doors have been closed at night, and at several houses the windows have been securely Scene of the Tragedy. . nalied, so that they are not even open dur- ing the day time. Monday night while the body of the murdered man was still in the house and his widow was only a few hun- Gred feet away, under guard and medical treatment, the men who found occasion to go on the road were for the most part heavily armed. Several of them volunteer- ed.to remain with the body over night, and the house was well protected, for all the watchers were prepared for another visit from the murderer. The affair has com- pletely® unnerved them. This is probably because the village has been such a quiet place, ard nothing of this kind had ever happened before within recollection of the present inhabitants. A Sad Scene. Yesterday morning the scene in the vil- lage was a sad one. The body of the mur- dered man lay in a coffin in the front room of the home that had been an unhappy one for a long time, and during her lucid in- tervals the wife could look from the house of “Dick” Swann, where she was under treatment, and see the window of the room in which the terrible deed had been com- nfitted. But the sight did not affect her. The only thing that seemed to give her the slightest trouble was mention of the let- ters that had passed between her and Mat- thews, and then she never failed to become hysterical. Soon after breakfast time the aged parents of the dead man went fron their home to take a last look at their boy, who had been so foully dealt with. Their grief could not be concealed, and the mother was not able to stand the ordeal. She was obliged to return home, and is now almost frantic. With the exception of the discolored face, the dead man presented a fairly good ap- pearance. On the wall of the little room in which the body lay hung a large crayon portrait of the wife who is now suspected of complicity in the crime, while near it was a framed cabinet photograph of the Hebrew peddler with whom she eloped about five years ago. Why Jim Irwin ever aliowed that picture to remain there no one of the mourners could understand. The man had caused Jim considerable trou- bie by taking his wife over in Virginia and keeping her there for more than a month, but then Jim ioved her and was always willing to forgive her wrongs. There had been a child born to them then, and Jim thought it was his duty to sacrifice his own feelings in order that things might be set right, and that Nellie should be brought up to make a good woman and not have a blighted life. Had Pleaded With His Wife. It is known that he had pleaded with his wife, Emma, to give up her suspected re- lations with George Matthews. He knew all about the letters, for his brother had in- tercepted several of them, and one of these love epistles from his former partner was delivered to Jim himself. This was not many days ago. His wife had been in the habit of sending Nellie to the post office each day at inail time, but on this occasion Pcstmaster Tippett overlooked Mrs. Ir- win's letter when Nellie calied, and later on he asked the husband to take it home. He did take it, but not to his home. In- stead, he took it over tp his father’s home, and there had his aged father decipher the contents of the letter, whioh contained many endearing terms. If Jim said any- thing to his wife about this letter the neighbors heard nothing of it. It is be- Meved, however, that very little, if any- thing, was said, and certainly there was no trouble about it, for this would certainly have been heard. The General Belief. It 1s believed here that the taking out of the way of the husband and father was Planned long ago, soon after the death of the child George, to whom Mrs. Irwin re- ferred as George Matthews’ boy in the let- ter to him, in which she said, “Baby George sends kiss to papa.” George was only two or three years old when he died in April last, and soon after his little body was laid at rest in the burying ground at the Newport Catholic Church the wife ad- vised her husband that it might be well for him to attend to his religious duties and get back in his church. He had had so Bre. Irwin. much trouble about his wife and Matthews that he had neglected his religious duties for a long time. “I don’t feel like going to my duties,” he said to his wife, “when this trouble is hanging over us.” ‘The poor man was thoroughly dishearten- ed, but knowing strict attention to churoh matters would lessen his earthly burdens, he went and consulted Father Wade, pas- tor of the Newport Church. To his pastor he related the story of his trouble, ard when the minister had consoled: him as much as possible, he exacted from him a THE- OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. EXPLANAIORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Mets ru ; uy, ae - 60 2° Otear 50 @ Partly Coup Bi Jacrsorlle Cieuay @ ran, S Snow. Solid lines are 1so- bars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted Mues are fsotherms, or lines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded areas are regions where rain or snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words “High” and “Low” show location of areas of high and low barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. WARM AND FAIR. The Kind of Weather Predicted for Tonight and Tomorrow. Forecast till § p.m. Thursday—For east- ern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela- ware, fair tonight, increasing cloudiness Thursday; not so warm Thursday after- necn or night; southwesterly winds, be- coming variable. For the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, warm and fair weather will continue tonight and Thursday; iight va- riable winds. Weather conditions and general fore- cast—The barometer has fallen in the cea- tral valleys and lake regions; it has risen in the Saint Lawrence valley and at Rocky mountain stations. The pressure continues high on the gulf coast, and it is lowest north of Minnesota. It is warmer from the Mississippi river eastward to the Atlantic coast and cooler ever the Saint Lawrence valley, new Lake Superior, and in the northwest. Local thunder storms are reported from New England westward to Montana and the weather is clear this morning from the lake regions and New England southward to the gulf coast. Fair and warm weather will continue generally throughout the south and middle Atlantic states and Ohio valley. Condi- tions are favorable for thunder storms from New England westward over the lower lake region. The following ‘heavy precipitation (in inches) -was reported: During the past twenty-four hours—Jacksonville, 1.20; Swift Current, 1.06; Quitman, Ga., 2.00; Gaines- ville, Ga., 1.84. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 80; condi- tion, 19; receiving reservoir, temperature, 82; condition at north connection, 21; con- dition at south connection, 24; distributing reservoir, temperature, 81; condition at influent gate house, 20; effluent gate kouse, 14, Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 10:36 a.m. and 11:02 p.m.; high tide, 4:00 a.m. and 4:84 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 11:50 a.m.; high tide, 5:05 a.m. and 5:32 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 5:04; sun sets, rises, 1:50 a.m. tomorrow. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 8:05 p.m.; ex- tinguishirg begun at 1:20 a.m. The light- ing is begun one hour before the time named. Arc lamps lighted at 7:59 p.m.; guished at 4:20. Range of the Thermometer. ‘The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 77; 2 p.m., 92; maximum, 94; min- imum, 77. 7:08; moon extin- Promise that he would return to church and renew his religious vows. And he kept his promise. It is now believed that the wife knew of what was to come, and that was why she insisted on his returning to church and making preparations tor the hereafter, although she was not so consid- erate of her own spiritual welfare. The Premises Inspected. Yesterday the premises were fully in- spected by State's Attorney Posey and some of the members of the coroner’s jury. On the head of the bed they found the stains of blood and several additional pieces of the skull were found. The blood-saturated Pillow, which had been put out in the yard with the bedding, had been removed across the road and deposited near the water's edge. “Dick” Swann’s home, where Mrs. Irwin was confined, was also visited, and it took but a glance at her to see that she had not sufficiently improved to be removed to Undertaker Robey’s, near Cox’s station, where the inquest was to-be resumed. A New Phase of the Cane. In addition to the terrible gunshot wound there was apparently a cut in the skull, which the doctors thought might possibly have been inflicted with a hatchet. This mew phase of the case caused the belief that two persons, instead of one, might have taken part in the actual killing, and a search is to be instituted for a blood- stained hatchet, as well as a gun. Mrs. Irwin's night gown, which is playing an important part in the Investigation, is still in the hands of the authorities, and an ef- fort is being made now to account for the presence of so little blood on the garment, when she claims she was in bed with the murdered man at the time the crime was committed and knew nothing of what had taken place until she heard a rapping or knocking sound. If she actually took part in the killing, as some people here believe she did, then the two blood stains on the garment might be easily accounted for, but it fs not generally believed that she was even in the room when the fatal shot was fired, and the blow probably inflicted. Undertaker Robey and Justice Wilis oc- cupy the same little building, about a mile from the station, and here the jury as- sembled at noon and heard the statement of the prisoner, George Matthews, as stated Jim Irwin. in yesterday's dispatches. The building is & one-story frame structure, and situated at the fork in the road, one road feading here and the other toward Allen’s Fresh. Fully 200 men had congregated in the yard and beneath the shade trees on the road, all anxious to get a look at George Mat- thews, and more especially at Jim Irwin's wife, for they expected she would be pres- ent at the hearing. Matthews the Suspected Murderer. ‘When the prisoner, Matthews, arrived from the La Plata jail in charge of Sheriff Wade and his deputies he was securely handcuffed, and the sight of the crowd gave him a thorough scare. So badly was he frightened that he reeled as he was en- tering the gateway and came near falling. He is by no means a bad looking man and there is an indescribable attractiveness about him which accounts for his having been able to win the affections of the wife of Jim Irwin. Matthews is not a large man and having followed the water so long his complexion is rather dark, but he has rosy cheeks. Although the excitement had kept him up he was probably weak, because he had taken no nourishment since his ar- rest Monday morning. Neither had Mrs. Irwin. She even refused ice when the doc- tor ted her to take it. Having passed through the crowd suc- cessfully the frightened man was given a seat on a box in the office in plain view of @ pile of coffins and other articles so neces- sary at funerals. In the words of one of the jurors, ‘He was sweating blood.” In this little room the jurors were seated, and gathered about them were officers of the county and several newspaper men. The crowd outside clamored for admissto: but the sheriff's deputies cleared the yar and drove the people to the opposite side of the road. His Statement. Under Oath. Then Matthews made his statement under cath. After admitting that he had been corresponding with Mrs. Irwin for some time, he said he did so for the purpose of ‘ tantalizing Jim. Sunday night, he said, he was out rowing. He went to meet a friend named Alvin Hayden, but did not meet him. Hayden was some six or seven miles distant, and he went to meet him for the pleasure of his bers, nd returning home. There was a squall on the river, and he wrapped his coat about his oll coat instead of reversing the order, and the con- sequence was that his coat got wet. It was between 10 and 11 o'clock when he return- ed home to Rock Point, and instead of re- moving what was in the boat he left the oars and coat in the craft, and did not even fasten the boat. Asked why he had not fastened the boat, he said that sometimes, when boatmen are in a hurry, they do not stop to make their boats fast. He said, however. that he was not in a hurry. At this point States Attorney Posey turn- ed his questioning toward the question of a@ shotgun. The shot picked from the George Matthews. brain of the murdered man were mixed, and the gun wad was of newspaper, and some of those who were interested in the investigation thought it had been made of a Ptece of a popu paper. Questioned on this point, Matthews said he. had received a populist paper last Thursday and had used part of it while shaving. He had different sizes of shot. His own gun he had traded for a bicycle, but he had borrowed one from Charles Goode for the purpose, he sald, of protect- ing his crab box, but in reality he wanted it for his own protection. Denied Any Improper Relations. He dented in most positive terms that any improper relations had ever existed between Mrs. Irwin and himself. When he met her Friday he paid her for two shirts she had made for a boy who lives with him. s The prigoner then told the jury that Mrs. Irwin had told him that the trouble between her husband and herseif was not on his (Matthews') account, but it was atout other women, and sho told him that her husband had abuscd her. He told her to leave him and have him arrested. The prisoner characterized the deceased as a bad man, and said he (Matthews) had owed the deceased some money. He told the jury that he had a hatchet at home, and told where the gun and hatchet could be found. This closed the evidence yesterday, and the hearing will be resumed at Allen's Fresh Friday morning, when it Is expected the most interesting testimony will be beard. An Important Witness. Mary Bean, colored, by whom the state had hoped to prove alleged illicit rela- tions, could net be found in time to appear at the session of the jury yesterday. The statement made to the jury by the prisoner conflicts very much with the par- tlal statement made by Mrs. Bean Mon- day. It appears now that Matthews first became friendly with Mrs. Irwin when the latter's husband was oystering at Rock Point. They were partners, and when it Was necessary for Irwin to go away he left hls family in care of Matthews. Thig morning several of the sheriff's deputies went to Rock Point to make a thorough search of Matthews’ house for the gun and hatchet, and it may be that they will find some evidence which may go @ long way in assisting the officers to fix the guilt upon the, proper parties. —_-—__. Judge Shellabarger's Iiness. It was reported this afternoon that tere had been no change in Fadge Shellabarger’s condition during - the—past twenty-four hours. tom — Five Years in the Penitentiary. Edward Fisher, a young colored man, was teday sentenced by’ Judge Cole to five years in the Albany, penitentiary at hard lator, upon pleading gujlty to robbing An- nie Fitzgerald January 18, 1895, of a pocket book containing; $2. Fisher robbed Mrs. Fitzgerald together with Solomon Green, John Butler and Joseph Duckett. Green and Butler weye given six months in tbe penitentiary abot @ year ago. Duckett is still at large. hér returned to the city a few days ago, after serving a sen- tence in a Pennsylvania prison, under the belief that he would,not,be prosecuted. ——— Eugene Ashley’s Funeral. The body of young Eugene Ashley, son of Mr. James A. Ashley of No. 88 C street northeast, who was drowned Monday at Ellwood, N. J., was brought to Washing- ton this morning, and the funeral will take Place from Mr. Ashley’s residence at 10 O'clock tomorrow morning. —<see A $100,000 Fire in Philadelphia. A fire which originated in what is known as the “cook house” in the big chemical works of Baugh & Sons, at pier 70, South Delaware avenue, Philadelphia, yesterday, destroyed property valued at $100,000. The “cook house” was & one-story building, 200 feet long and 75 feet wide. It was totally destroyed, together with valuable machi- nery. The loss ts fully covered by insur- ance. AT HEADQUARTER S Gossip at Republican and Democratic Committee Rooms. BRUNSWICK’S RESULT NOT SIGNIFICANT What is Expected for the Fusion in Minnesota. POLL ON A TRAIN ee gee The republican congressional committee, as stated by Secretary Mercer in The Star yesterday, was not inclined to attach a great deal of significance to the democratic victory in the railroad town of Brunswick, Md., which was taken by the democrats as a straw indicating the direction of the po- litical wind at this time. The committee is more of that opinion today, and is in receipt of a communication upon the subject. It is an editorial in the Baltimore News, and is as follows: “One would suppose that there had been a terrific struggle between the adherents of the Rothschilds and Wall street bond-sharks on the one hand, and the unterrified cham- pions of the poor man’s money and the Nebraska orator on the other. In point of fact, however, only 293 votes were polled out of a total voting population of &bout 600, which rather indicates that most of the citizens of Brunswick thought they were simply electing a mayor and councilmen, and not helping specially to settle the finan- cial system of the country. Moreover, this ‘republican stronghold gave the republican candidate for sheriff last fall a plurality of just 14 votes—234 against 220—although last fall was a tidal-wave year for the republi- cans, who carried Maryland for governor by nearly 19,000 plurality. Yesterday the dem- ocratic candidate for mayor polled 161 votes against 129 for his opponent. With these figures before them, the people of the United States will probably decide that Brunswick, Md., has done but a very little as yet toward the settlement of the presidential question.” Mr. Babcock Expected Friday. Chairman Babcock of the republican committee is expected to be at his desk by Friday, and will take up the business which he was forced to suspend tempora- rily on account of interesting political events in his own district. Vice Chatr- man Apsley expects to leave about the middle of the morth for a six weeks’ trip through the west, upon which he will be accompanied by Representative McCall of Me: sachusetts. It is Mr. Apsley’s inten- tion to visit the principal republican head- quarters west of this city and to make per- sonal inspections of the situation as repre- sented to the state central committees and the congressional committees of the several districts. In this way Mr. Apsley expects to gain much information of the real sit- uation throughout the country, which will be of invalua®le aid to the congrcssional committee in its conduct of the campaign. Lively for the Clerical Force. While this was a dull day for news at the congressional committee headquarters on account of the absence of prominent callers and the lack of unusual information in the mails, it was a busy day for all hands around headquarteres, who find the work of the committee increasing in vol- ume day by day. The clerical force at the Normandie have all they can do to keep up with the demands upon them, and the employes of the document room around the corner cn I street are just as busy in their own line of work. The committee has a suite of several rooms on the parlor floor of the Norman- die, but it is still crowded for accommoda- tions. Visitors to the committee headquar- ters receive pciite attention and are shown into the waiting room, where Mr. Bailey, a courteous ycung moan, ascertains their wants. If they want to see Vice Chairman Apsley they may find it a somewhat diffi- cult undertaking, because he 1s too busy to talk to everyLody who comes. The major- ity of the callers are seekers for employ- Trent, too, and as the clerical force of the committee has long ago been made up, they do not receive a great deal of encour- agement. The newspaper men, who visit the com- mittee at all hours of the day, are wel- comed to Col. Fred. Schrader’s room, and from there they get access to the vice chairman, who always has a word for the newspaper men. Circular to Colored Voters. The republican congressional committee has received a circular from the West End McKinley Club of this city, addressed to the colored voters of the United States. It is issued by George W. Stewart, chair- man of the club, and exhorts the colored Population to vote for the republicans, the circular concluding with this paragraph: “Beware of the silver craze, shun the populists and stick to the old landmark.” At Democratic Headquarters. At democratic headquarters, on 15th street, the caller upon entering the hall is confronted immediately by a gateway guarded by a colored man. The rooms of Chairman Faulkner and Secretary Gardner are upstairs, and the plain citizen has to run a gauntlet of satisfactory explana- tions as to his mission before he gets into this sanctum. Senator Faulkner is always approachable to newspaper men, however, and the latter have no trouble in getting access to him. “The news from Minnesota today indicates probability of a big demccratic victory in November,” said Senator Faulkner to a Star reporter this afternoon. “With the fusion which has been made between the democrats and the populists, and with the constantly increasing sentiment in favor of silver, I do not see how it will be possi- ble for the fusion ticket to fail to wipe out the republicans almost completely.” Advices from Minnesota state that the populist and democratic forces were com- bined at yesterday’s convention, and a ticket for the state made up which will take in nearly every clement of population. Ex-Congressman Lind, formerly a republi- can, was nominated for governor. He is a Scandinavian, and he is expected to con- trol the entire foreign vote of the state. Other foreign elements besides the Scandi- navians were also provided for in the ticket. The present republican lieutenant governor of the state has been nominated for Congress on a free silver ticket against McCleary, the gold republican, and a divi- sion has been made of the presidential electors between the populists and the dem- ocrats. A Pennsylvania Prediction. Ex-Congressman Mutchler of the eighth Pennsylvania district was a caller at dem- ocratic headquarters today, and predicted a@ democratic silver majority of from 2,000 to 4,000 in that district. He said the dem- ecrats would gain several Congressmen through the state, as the silver sentiment was making great headway among the miners and laborers. In this connection Senator Faulkner stated this afternoon that the committee’s mail from Pennsylvania is twice as large as it was two weeks ago, and that it is all for free silver. He said the county committees are all in line for the ticket, and he looks for some pro- nounced gains in the state. One of the callers at democratic head- quarters today who had noticed Senator Faulkner’s interview in The Star yesterday, in which he stated that he feared a conflict ‘between the classes and the masses, told of an incident which occurred on the Cin- cinnati express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a few evenings ago. Poll on a Trat “After the train left Washington,” he said, ‘‘a fellow went through to poll the passengers as to their political preferences. In the smoking car and in the day coach Bryan and free silver had a majority of eighteen. When he got back into the Pull- man cars, however, gold and McKinley be- gan to forge to the front. By the time he had gone through the last Pullman car foe and McKinley had majority of wenty. That’s just about a fair samplo of the feeling among the people, as between those who ride in day coaches and the members of th: class who can ride in Pull- man cars. On election day, however, the majority will be changed. 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