Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1896, Page 11

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Irwin wilt be commenced, and the grand jury will also report. an indictment against Mrs. Em- ma Irwin, widow of the murdered man, charging her with being an accessory be- fore the fact, which means that she is ta be put on @ footing with the alleged slayer of her husband. Witnesses were examined by the grand jury Saturday, and that body decided upon the indictment. Mrs. Irwin was present Saturday, and, as already stated, the indictment will be reported to- morrow. At the time of the commission of the horrible deed the people in the county, and “more particularly the women, were highly indignant beeause of the alleged part the woman took in the tragedy, and they were outspoken in their belief that she had caused her husband's untimely end, and that she should be made to share the punishment with the alleged slayer. The failure of the grand jury to return an indictment at the time Matthews was pre- sented caused a sentiment favorable to the man accused of the crime, but this senti- ment has now changed, when it is known that she, too, is to be indicted. When Matthews’ case was called in court last week, soon after the indictment against htm wes found, the question of his securing counsel proved a little troublesome. The Prisoner asked that Congressman-elect Mudd be assigned to defend him, as he was unable to secure counsel? because of a lack of funds. This request was communicated to Mr. Mudd, who, after a lengthy consul- tation with the prisoner, concluded that he could net eppear in the case, and so noti- fied the court. The court thereupon ap- pointed ex-State Senator Rv H. Edelin and 5. H. Mitchell to look after the prisoner's legal rights, but the former declined, and Mr. John E. Stone was appointed in his stead, 20 that Messrs. Mitchell and Stone will battle in court for Matthews’ life against State’s Attorney Adrian Posey and Gen. E. A. Wilmer, who was appointed by the court to assist in the prosecution. Both the grand and petit. juries of this term of the court are composed of some of the best citizens of the county, so that the state is satisfled that a just verdict will be rendered in this case. Some doubt has been expressed as to the state being able to get a jury without difficulty, owing to the free discussion of the case at the lime the crime was committed. ‘Talenmen Drawn, In order to prevent any unnecessary de- lay for this reason the court ordered that thirty talesmen be drawn ftom the box, and the following were. drawn: Gearge W. Swann, Perry Rennae; George W. Berry, Richard Gough, Samdel G. Lancaster, Em- manuel McWilliams, ; Marcellus Thompson, James C. Alvey, Joho H. Langley, Jas. A. Goldsmith, Robert H.’ Penn, Benjamin F. Blandford, Benjamin F) Dement, Julian Engle, William H. Sinclair, Alex. M. Free- committed by other person. The verdict was agreed upon after a brief deliberation, and when reported to who conducted the in- the release of Mrs. Stern was di- Coroner Hammett, quest, rected. The inquest, which began shortly after 4 p.m., was held at the fourth precinct police ‘The proceedings were opened by Coroner Hammett, who read to the jury ‘mortem statement of Mrs. Meyer. statement was recorded at the bedsi of the dying woman, about five hours b fore her death, by Policeman Charles T. Peck of the fourth precinct, with Dr. liam J. Dilenbach, Conrad Meyer, the two last named being a sister-in-law and the husband, respectively, of the deceased, as witnesses. ment was somewhat rambling and am- bi, it spoke of visits from Dr. John F. Price and Mrs. Stern, but made no direct accusations. ‘The first witness was Dr. John F. Price, who was called to see Mrs. Meyer Novem- He testified as to her condition at station. the ant This Don't go on worrying with poor laundry work when you can as easil: have Yale, 514 Ioth st. the best in America. RESULT OF INQUEST. Jury Unable to Say Who Was Re- Meyer's Death. evening did not hold Mrs. Helen Stern, a midwife, who had been arrested on the charge of responsibillty for the death of Mrs. Kate E. Meyer. The verdict set forth that in the opinion of the jury Mrs. Meyer came to her death about 6 a.m. at 1208 Delaware avenue southwest, as the result of an injury. It was added that suffi- cient evidence had not been produced to prove whether the act of vivlence had been the deceased or by some ponsible for Mr: The coroner's jury Saturday Mrs. Ela Meyer uous. ber 15. that time, describing it as serious. Meyer informed the witness that an abor- tion had been attempted. When he visited her his treatment was for threaten- ed_ miscarriage. Dr. Wililam J. Dilienbach, who was into the case the evening prior to Meyer's death, testified that he had been in- formed by the deceased that an abortion The mind of the dying woman was perfectly clear, aud she seemed to have no idea of her ser- had been performed upon her. ious condition. Heart failure, due to eral peritoniti: death, so said Dr. Dillenbach. » Dr. W. Glazebrook, the deputy coro- performed the autopsy, described i, and with much thoroughness, the condition of tie body as he found it. ante-mortem clot was found in the heart. ner, Ww in det: The most conclusive evidence was closed that a sharp instrument of some sort had been used. Conrad Meyer, the husband, stated his wife was first taken sick Wednesday a week ago. Before her death she stated to him that Mrs. Stern had killed her, or would kili her, and that the latter had made use of an instrument, very sharp, about six inches in length. Mrs. Stern at- tended Mrs. Meyer when her youngest was born in a satisfactory manner. cently visited Mrs. Stern, wife told him she had taken certain Policeman Charles T. Peck testified Mrs. Meyer made her ante-mortem state- ment to hirn in gasps. Her mind was clear at the time, and she did not seem to realize that she was dying. After consulting with her attorney, Shillington, Mrs. Stern concluded to make a statement. She is married, she and the mother of eight children. isa registered midwife, of years’ practice, from a German institution. before been placed under arrest, and never accused of wrongdoing. —— Bernadino Campos has been appointei Brazilian minister of finance, Senor Bar- bosa, minister of marine, and Senor Mar- tinho, minister of industry. November 20, 1896, The state- was the direct cause of When Mrs. Stern recently visited Mrs. Meyer, witness was refused admission to his wife's rocm. In reply to a question, Mr. Meyer said that he was aware that his wife re- and that his twelve and holds a diploma Mrs. Stern took occasion to state that she had never She re- ferred for reference to a large number of local physicians, including Coroner Ham- mett. The remainder of Mrs. Stern’s state- ment, in substance, was that Mrs. Meyer confessed 10 tLe witness that she had oper- ated upon herself. Every action of wit. ness, so she declared, was entirely legiti- mate. ‘The jury then retired, and soon returned the verdict as stated in the foregoing. The jury consisted of F. A. Thrift, J. E. Crump, A. T. Monroe, John Lewis and Burton Ver- nor. man, P. A. L. Contee, George Spalding, James T. Monroe, Charles \F. Dement; Sno. R. Boarman, Andrew J. Smoot, James A The | Mason, Samuel C. Mifis, Atthur W. Tho as, John F. Swann, Wm. Bf. Geo. It R. McDanie w. Those who are members of the regular panels of the petit jury ate: Messrs. Will- fam A. Henderson, Marshall Chapman, Robert J. Lloyd, Basik, W.j8palding, B. W. B. McPherson, Somesset Bb. Rebey. Thos. Geo. N. Simms, Benjamin G. . Charles B. Garner, Richard T. y, James T. Lyon, Jetemiah Dud- ley, Robert H. Turner, John T. Dutton, Madison Mason, John J. Jenkins, Bernard M. Mudd, Henry H. Richmond, Benjamin G. Harris, Edward T. Berry, W. F. Braw- ner, John 8. Acton, E. W. Robertson, Thos. H. Murra: The Woman's Case. State's Attorney Posey has left no stone unturned In his efforts to get together all tbe proof in tke case, and he. confidenuy expects that the state will secure a con- viction of Matthews. Just what course will be pursued in the case of Mrs. Irwin, he said, he could not tell. Matthews’ case will be tried first at any rate, and when that ‘is settled something will then be done in the woman's case. The proof in the man's case will have some bearing on thgt of the woman's, and action in her case may de- pend largely upon the result of his trial. It may be that her case will go over until the. next. term of the court, as wit probably be the case with Sheriff Wade and Wash- ington Barch, his colored assistant, who has charge of the jail and who are under charges because the late Joseph Cocking was released from jail by the members of the lynching party and alse because of the escape ‘of Matthews. ‘There are about ten witnesses who will give..evidence against Matthews for the state, while a large number of witnesses, it is thought, will be in attendance to give evidence in behalf of the defendant. state has also a number of witnesses in re- serve to be used in event of Matthews go- ing on the stand in his own behalf, which, it is thought, he will undoubtedly do. In- deed, it is said by some people from Cobb Neck, where he lived, that Matthews es- caped from jail only to get an opportunity to revisit the neighborhood of his old home and get his evidence together. It is thought by some that he will set up an alibi, and that some of his friends about Cobb Neck who were in the oyster business will at- tempt to save him from the gallows in this way. Wit and Mrs. first call- Mrs. The State's Claims, When the jury nas been selected and the opening arguments heard, the several wit- nesses to the affair will go on the stand and the state will make an effort to prove by them a chain of circumstances which, it is claimed, will show beyond a doubt that Matthews fired the shot which cast a gloom ver the theretofore quiet and law-abiding village of Allen Fresh, which is near the headwathers of the Wicomic. As_hereto- fore printed, the murder occurred Sunday, August 3, at a late hour of the night, some time after the members of the Irwin family had returned from a pleasure trip to Cedar Point. On that Sunday, while they were at the Point, a young Washingtonian named Wild lost ‘his life in the river, and on their way home “Jim” Irwin and his wife dis- cussed the sad event which, had marred the pleasure of so mang, ‘and which had turned a picnic gathering: into mourning. The Murder. It was between 9 ‘and “10 o’clock when they reached home, and seon after putting away the horse, ‘“Jjfn,”\"as he was so familiarly known about the village, retired, as he had done on hitidréds of similar oc- casions, and fully expegtedahe would get up the next morning and attend to his work on the job on which he was then working. But instead of this betng ‘the case, a mur- derer visited his humBle Kome, and by one pull of the trigger,; mage ‘his wife a widow and his childsen /fatherless. This murderer, the stated! will. contend, was George Matthews, the,mdn who has con- fessed intimacy with’ fhe #ife of the man who was slain. And @ te will contend further that the wife, wha is not now at lib- erty, not only sanctioned th Killing, but was a party to the plot, which, it is claimed, was to free her from the bonds of matri- mony in order that she might go to Cobb Neck and be a companion of the oyster- man, Matthews, whose life is now in jeop- gen- An dis- that child Pills. that Mr. said, She was The distance between Cobb Neck and Allen Fresh is between fifteen and twenty miles. George Matthews was at the neck that Sunday afternoon shortly before sun- down, and he had had a meeting with the woman two days prior to that time, near Harris’ lot in the woods. This meeting had been arranged in the correspondence be- tween them, the correspondence being in the most endearing terms. The husband knew of what was going on between his wife and Matthews, but he had two chil- dren, and for their sakes he thought he would stand their conduct as long as he could, hoping that eventually the ties be- Irwia would tween the oysterman and Mr: The } ardy. * be broker. His retatives kad warned him that if he-continaed to live with his wife his “life would be in danger, but although he knew of her retattons with Matthews, he hoped for the best, but the worst came. On behalf of the state, it will be claimed that atout the time that the members of the Irwin family were driving over the road from Cedar Point to Alten Fresh, George Matthews was making his way to the same Place in a boat from Cobb Neck. It will Probably be cintmed that he reached Allen Fresh before his aileged victim, and that he walted near the house unt® he sey Irwin enter and until he got a signal that all was well before he entered. The Wife's Story. Mrs. Irwin claims that she was in bed beside her husband and was éreaming of the sad death of the young mam whe was @rewned, when a muffied sound aroused her. She had left 2 Hgeht im the reom, she says, but when she was awakened the light had beem extinguished and alt was in dark- ness. This claim will be disputed by the Prosecution, fer the gun shcet had blown off the top of the victtm’s skull and had spattered his brains and blood all over the room. Had she been in bed it is claimed, she would have heen saturated fram head to foot and some stray shot may have entered her. But such was not the case, and it is also to be argued. there was no impression in the bed or pillow to show that more than one person had eccu- pled it The persan who had actually fired the shot kad entered the house through the side window, which opens into the dining room. Beneath the window was a box on which the person kad stepped to climb in the window and a tobacco stick fou holding up the windcw had been taker from the front yard. A table, on which dishes were piled, stood next to the win- dcw, and im getting in the murderer had stepped on this pile of chinaware. Matthews Seen. Now it will be contended that George Matthews had just abvut time enough to get to Allen Fresh, comsmit the crime and get home about daybreak, the time he was seen making haste to reach home in his boat. He was seen on the river and his movements, it will be argued, showed that he had some other thau a legitimate mo- tive in mind at the time. The gun found in his house the day after his arrest, the wads in it and the gun wad and shot taken from the head of the dead rin, as well as the letters which passed between Matthews and Mrs. Irwin,will play {raportant parts in the prosecution. In the first place the gun did aot belong to the prisoner, but he had borrowed it from Mr. Hayden, he told the coroner’s jury, for “protection,” and Mr. Jeff Robertson, a member of the coroner's jury, told him he would have wanted a gatling gun If he had written letters in such endearing terms to another man’s wife. Counsel for the state will make an effort to show that the picce of gun wad taken from the head of the dead man was a plioce of a populist paper, as was that taken from the gun. One bar- rel of the gun had the appearance of hav- ing been discharged and reloaded in a huz- ry. Then the mixed shot taken from the head corresponded with those used in re- loading the gun, as well as with a box of shot found in Matthews” cabin. Besides these circumstarces the clothes found in the house were wet, as if t had been recently washed, and it may possibly be contended that there had been blood stain’ washed from them. All this, it ts claim- ed, in addition to other circumstantial evi- dence, will be put forward by the state, and upon which the jury will be asked for a verdict of guilty. Im the Jail. Since Matthews’ return to the jail, a week ago, after an absence of a month, he has been guarded by two special deputies, Con- stable George Howard and Eugene Murphy, who spend all their time in the jail. Mat- thews is occupying a cell on the upper floor, while Mrs. Irwin spends her time on the ground floor between her cell and the kitchen. She has gained fully thirty pounds since she has been in the little prison, and the return of the man a week ago seemed to have a depressing effect upon her. His sudden and unannounced departure from the jail five wecks ago seemed to delizht het, for she had not much to fear so long as he kept out of the way, but she knew when he returned that it meant her going in court either as a witness or defendant, and ail along she has feared facing an audience, although during her stay in jail she has not shown a dislike to talking to visitors. State's Attorney Posey has had at least one interview with her, and this is known by Matthews, who has shown that he was fearful lest she should appear in the role of an informer. If such is the in- tention of the woman, and it is the inten- tion of the state to accept her testimon: the man has certainiy done all in his power to intimidate her, for he has talked on the second floor in a loud tone, so she could hear him, and has led her to believe that he understands what is going on, in terms calculated to frighten her. She was com- pletely unnerved when he returned and she learned that he was again in the prison. As already stated, the prisoner was a furttive from jail for four weeks, and most of.his time was spent in the vicinity of his home. Before his departure, without the knowledge of Washington Burch, the prison keeper, Matthews had expressed a desire to see his child, the mother of whom was the wife of a St. Mary's county fisherman. This child, a boy eight years old, is living ith a family down near the river. So far 29 this desire ts concerned, it was fulfilled a number of times, for the fugitive went about among his friends, and seemed per- fectly at ease until he learned that a re- ward of $650 had been oifered for his ar- rest, dead or alive. He had been forced to live in the woods a great part of the time, for he was in constant fear of being ar_ rested, and one day, when he learned, through the papers, that the reward had been offered, he then realized that he was in danger, more than ever, and felt that he could no longer trust his friends. A bul- let sent through him in order to kill him and get the reward was what he expected, and he felt certain that if he attempted to leave the county he would not be permitted to live long. so he returned and called at the jail about 4 o'elock Sunday morning when he was admitted, without any ques- tons being asked. Vhen he left Rock Point to retur: had a bucket of oysters which he had ins tended to give the colored jailer, but on his way through the woods hunger over- took him and he cooked and ate them. Then he told of how he managed to es cape. He was in a cell to which there was a defective lock, and he experienced no difficulty in getting out and leaving while Mrs. Irwin and a colored female prisoner watched him. When he reached the swamp only a short distance from the village, he remained there until after dark, and while there he saw severat of the men and boys who were searching for him. One of them shot at him, but he soon got out of sight and hid until dark. Then he was lost and did not know which way to go until the evening train came along. He heard the whistle and saw the light, so that he w able to reach the railroad track. It was about 8 o'clock in the evening when he passed near the village to reach the tracks, and he said he would have gone over an looked in the jail, but he was too tired. 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