Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-02-20


| intelligent His name is James Tnell.
Question ey Jsro-.-Jamss, do you Know
what an oath is
| Question you know where Joa would
J go If you took false OATH
l. Answer don't know what that Is, SIR,
I Qresticn.-WeIi, did your mother ueysr tell
/ you where ron would go to II you told lie
! Arswer-Ies, sir.
uuettion.-weIl, what would become of you
| If YOU told 4 lie! 4. ta
/ Answer would 70 TO hell.
I The boy WAS then told thu consequences OF
telling alsehood. and his answers were con-
/ sidered suffic ieUt evidence of his eapablity to
assume the solemnities of an on b, and he was
| sworn and testified that on Wednesday after
| rCcn his father came home and got into
/ quarrol with his mother. He fwitness) had
I heail ont after blocks and chips, and when he
| came back his father and mother were quar-
! reling His father struck his mother in the
| heed with a Ratchet. and afterwards with
| axe. He saw him strike her. After hts mother
was first struck she fell and conld not speak,
| ard then he gave her another blow with the
axe. This happened In the room down stairs.
"itrS said his fatb her then carried his mother
up stairs.
I AnswPr.-He lifted her mp the same ss il you
wouid put your hands behind you and lift me
on your back aud carry mo M.
Witness proceeded and testified that when
has father carried his mother up stairs he laid
hsr in the bed and covered her up with sheet.
] he fatht r then placed witness aud his little
sister in the bed with the corpse. The sheet
aud bed was bloody. Witness saw blood all
abort he bed and room.
Officer RoTTics testified that he arres ted Tuell
and asked him where his wife was. He
said she was dead ana buried. TuelI then
asked tor his children, aud when witness told
him they We're at tie station house the prisoner
said il all right, that his wife was no " ont
CT misery, and that she had always been
curss 10 him and his children.
houndSran A, EcIloF testified that he fou nd
the children in The bed on Friday morning,
and that he saw marks of blood all about the
roc m and horse. He also ascertaiued that
Tuell had $3.50 deposited in Riggs bank.
offer CToga CrroboratPd the teA imony As
the appearance of blood in the house,, and also
that ha arrested Geo. Ballard, 4 teanster, who
helped 10 take the body from the house. TBai-
laras testimony appears in the Star of yes err
day. He was not examined at the coronar's
inquest. Us he is confined III jail
Dir. inc. A. S5merS, who is employed by Mr.
Plant, undertaken, testified that Tuell and Mr.
Ryan applied 10 him for q coffin and got one ri
SIS. They pretended il was small pog case
they were about 70 bury.
hr Ciendeain, son OF the superintendent of
GIenW Cemetery, testified that parties calf
Ell To Sc cure the digging OF grave on Wednes-
cay evening. Witness thinks it was Mr.. rGeii
who called. He is certain the prise ler came
with the corpse N the morning. They said
they would come at . o'clock ia the morning,
but instead they came two hours earlier-at7
o'clock. The parties gave the ma me or tina wo.
man thew de sired to bury as Mrs jane Farrell
INN Rgoa Iecailed-Trsufied th.t he had T,5
II Tuelfs nj, ney Sefore he raid fnr the cofIin.
WREN he engaged the grave.
Timothy CGliGqtsr, crave digger, testified TIA.
! ne got 70 the graveyard on Friday morning ut
3 O'Clock. and he then found the coffin OF de-.
ceased there Witness bad hean in formed that
ths grave wss for 4 smallpox case, aui he
therefore asked Treii what lie had brought tina
cGf'n and corpse out so early before 9oclock
! for. He (Tneul said he wanted 10 Ct il buried
! soon. witness then asked The mar If he had
! hroushta cccTed man 70 help put me coffin in
! The grave. Tueil said h wouia help 40 It,
D II 40 he ar, xrf.l- x.,-4
! TUeil 1t The woman had died Of =ma,ipox sure
enough. and Tueii said the truth had best be
told, and that The woman died ON thr Elects
{ ~ liquor. witness then asked why the de-
osas, q, h"inG = Catholic, was not buried il
AcGnt Dive, ard IEell replied that Ito rad
no. received he rites her church Witness
rnTerS -ood tie WCmans name 10 be Farrell
.'oha HEdn again recalled, sait he heard Tueli
give he ~ mar s Mine So Farrell. That was
Mrs. 1ueil's maiden narne. Witness did not
care aboni say ing hat the reaIrame of deceas-
cd was Turll.
| Jants: T..y, an of tie rrisopa-. vas hare
recalled. aud testified that his father washed
ihs axe after striking his mother.
ae axe Wa here shown the jury. II + u
common sSei used for splitting wnct aud has
J Ezarss Of bleed yet nloL il, although is bears
cSidtnca OF attempts 10 wash oil the blood
pots. The hammer referred 10 ia OF iron, han.
visible
iliIe the above tes timouy was befne takan
! Ers. n. '. t. Began ana A. F. King were
'rskirS a post moI,em examination Of ia
y-particuiariy u The head; and after the
exanisIiatIun was concluded, Dr. Rog,u testi-
lied that th.trs was plain evidence of tn tTac.
! tura of The bone as'out both temples. and that
| the injury was iujiieted by some hard body
| criy.n by great force, ard that the fracture
| went through both tables OF the bore. The
| train was dsiEtegfated, and the blow on either
! sid vas sufficient 10 Kill the deceased. Death
must have cen cansed q momrnt after tlIa
| blow was inflicted. Witness had attes ded the
| won 81 IL the capacity Of ply ician for Il num.
| Der u years past. SIZE was of,en horribly
hsa'en ls Ler husband. She was 3 good wo.
| maA uF 10 within ! ear or twc, when she
/ conneE ced 10 dtrsira.c, On account of her
! husbands Ill treatment.
! The corpse vas here examined by TN jury,
| aud II preached 8 DCst horrible .ignt, ant bore
| evidence OF recent isatirps. On I'll her sid Of
| the head was the mark OF tbs death blows
| inflicted nv the axe and hammer, both ANS of
| DECEASED are horribly bruised, and are black
ard blue; while the thighs, legs. and il ftct the
whole body, hear the same evidence OF i'll ,rea J.
| icfni The lett wrist is apparently br oxen,
| and was evidently useless before life had bee n
| e&iIn 2rished. Those " no buried deceased to-
| no pains 10 encsse hsr form properly She hal
| rctEing upon her but ch, mise and pair Of
| stockings End ehoas, and around har body wGs
| simply wrapped a bloody sheet and In tn $
/ coi dI1lon, with uncCmhed hair and nm washed
race, she wa ccusieI ed to the grave
The jury found that Geceas ed cs ne 10 har
| cesih by blows nliio'ed by an axe aud ham.
| nlfr in he hands # Ter husband, Cornelius
| iueli, On Wednesday isst: said blow breaking
ihr fones OF both temples, no causing desth in
| a'ew moments.
| he ,hil7rAu Of TreiI have been retained at
| 'he touiih Ward station where ina police
/ nave erected for them cot, upon which ttley
Sleep and they ,ken homa at meal III, b y
n Inherent officers, ano furnished with food
This morning, ronndsman Kelly vent to
judge Olin TO Obtain MS advice re!stiva 10 s.
! craI h'y or gold which Cornelius lrsIl has
| cepCsIt6 III tbs bunk of G. w. Riggs Jude
! oin wrote note advising the banker 70 retat n
/ 'he uonel In his poe session. and not deliver il
! a. L Tneli or his fIisuds This advice Is given
secaUse OF the fact rhat the two children ara
! i@Ft wi'foct protection. and the moEey on 1t
| TO he Tetailed for their benefit.
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! GO 10 ODD Fellows Hall this afternoon and to
! night For particulars see ad veriise,nant in
| anu ement column ard small bills every Wh-re
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| MARRIED,
20 re Iha jnatsn, 81 ne residence of ths bride,