The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-25

PARRICIDE.
1vE"'aNh . Evans.


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scene of the parricde, then at the Coroners once
The following evidence was obtained al Che
MRS. selena A. Belcher sworn--After leaving the
breakfast table saw Marshall X Evans walking up
and down the entry and in ana out Oh Cne Parao[s;
his father to dcscend his father had gone up stars
TO change his coat to go out; didn't know anythng
out OF the pantry when Mr.. Thomas h. Evans came
mp and held on to the door; my 1rst impulse was TO
mt him into the pantry, away from his son, but he
went into the dining-roOm just inside the door, |
believe I tried to shut the door, when Mr. Evans
Lell right i'm the doorway his son still pointing the
Ristol al his head, but it did not explode again;
while was endeavorng to support Mr.. Evans, the |
father: | exclaimed, "Oh Marshall, see what you
have done to your father!" he said not a word;
called for help; was all alone at last young man
and a colored man came in from the back way, aud
helped me carry Mr.. Evans in and lay him on the
parlOr floor; Immediately requested the doctor to
be sent for: great many people came in then, aud
there was a great confusion; heard three or four
shots tred was by nm I'LL. Re DreaseG ms
his son was being taken out Of the
door, Mr.. Evans said, "Don't let them take my boy
away" Marshall supposed that there was a conspi-
racy to kill him; his father tried to persuade him to
give up the notion he spent part of the night with
his father; his father was going to give him to DR..
Kirkbride that morning, and was going out for that
purpose when he was shot; my opinion is that Mar
shall out of his mind at the time he shot his
father; saw the pistol in his hand.
Miss Mary s. Evans swOrn-The firing of the
pistol was the first thing that attracted my atten-
tion; was standing in the entry at the time, and
advanced towards the dlnng-room and had got "a
far as the dinng-room window; then saw that
Marshall had revolver, and was firing at father
one shot after another as fast as he could; ran,
screaming out into the yard, and thence down the
alley to Clinton street; saw policeman, and beck
Oned him to come into the house; he came; two
others had got into the house, however, before the
policeman; got back and found Mrs. Becher sup
porting father.
Corroborated the preceding witness.
Marshall's condition has been very peculiar; he
looked very wild he either very reserved very
lively; he talked of not sleeping: Monday night he
was very quiet; we were all in the paror; he wanted
TO know If was going to write to his wife, and what
u was going to write about; | replied to him, when
ne resumed his walking; afterwards he sat down by
father: afterwards Marshall asked father to go no
stairs they vent up and in few minutes fol-
lowed previously to this father had gone to the
doctors and got o prescription to soothe
when we got up stairs Marshall was eating peaches;
little after that | retired, and soon afterwards
together; for some time Marshall wouldn't sleep in
the fourth story he imagined somebody was there to
door between my room and his; it was always
opened at night a few minutes afterwards heard
him ask father to comply with his request; he
wanted to write in the morning for his wife to come
back; Marshall sprang out Of bed then, and stood at
our door; was very sick then; Marshall said that
father and We're here in league and that if that was
the he wouldn't go back to bed; told him that
was sick, and he went back to bed fifteen minutes
afterwards he got up again, and seized the pitcher;
father awoke and told him to come back to bed else
he would have to go for an officer to get assistance;
Marshall very Indignantly said that there was a con-
spiracy and that he was going to have it OUT father
attempted to get up, when Marshall said if he would
he would throw the pitcher at his head; {;
Marshall then rushed down stairs with
the pitcher in his hand, and went to the
place where father had put the knife coaXed from
him in the afternoon; he had had the knife for
several days; when father went down he eX-
amning the knife very closely, and wouldn't give it
up; afterwards Marshall rushed up stairs to the
fourth story, and told father not to follow him. 'nO
VoVer, and would ininre him father stood at the
foot of the stairs ana reasoned with him, but he
wouldn't come down. Marshall closed the doors of
10 a father at
morning l, asked father if he going
shall Marshall is crazy :" the next place saw Mar
shall at the breakfast table; he looked at Mrs
left the table, and knew nothing until saw Mar
shall peeping out of the back paror door; this
before the firing; told father not to stay out long
after the certificate of insanity, as feared Marshall
would hurt u.s., have noticed great change in
Marshall since the death of his child six weeks ago
Marshall has been under an idea that party of men
were watching him to either rob or kill him.
Miss Rachel S. EvansI sworn-Was in the Kitchen
about quarter to o'clock yesterday morning: [
heard at least two reports of pistol; went into
the dining-room and saw father half rising, both
ran out of the yard into the alley and screamed
<'Murder!" then | came back again; Marshall was
firing at the time came from the Kitchen into the
Miss Julia Evans sworn-I was up stairs at the
time the shooting was going on, stripping beds; l
came down and saw father
Elizabeth Elliott sworn-Was up stairs on Tues
day morning; when heard the shots fired | bOted
The door OF the room ] was in and gave the alarm
from the front; didn't come down; ! thought at
once that the shots were fired by the insane man;
judge he was insane from his looks and actions; he
imagined that man was after him always; never
knew his father and himself to have any difficulty.
The following evidence was elected at the COrO-
ner's object
Police Oficer Freeman sworn-Was told by young
lady at Tenth and Clinton streets that young man
had shot his father went into the house. and meet
ing Marshall Evans asked him il he was the young
man that had done the deed: he answered me-
EYes;" he said also that he did it in sefdefense he
held the pistol at the time in his left hand, but
afterwards gave it to me; he then said, 81 have a
knife in my pOcket;' he took it out and gave it to
me; he said ''My father had the knife" and then
continued, "This may seem strange to you; my mind
is sane now but it was not this morning; l did it in
self-defense y told him that he was my prisoner;
he said he would like to see his father; went with
him to the room where his father lyng he asked
me to protect him; told him would, I told him
Lhat would have to take him to the station-hOuse
when he asked to be taken before the Mayor using
the remark, ''The Mayor is pretty nice man. ain'
ne? TOOK him to the station house, then TO the Cen
tral Station.
Police onicer James Mcmahon testified that h,
was at the scene of the stabbing; that he examined
The wounds Of Mr.. Evans; that afterwards Mr.
locked up;" that Mr.. Evans also asked TO be take
TO the Hospital: that he went after a stretcher fo
that purpose, and when he came back found MI
Dr. Amos r. Jones sworn-saw the decease
before he died. was called to No BOG Tenth street b
messenger; when got there found Mr.. Evan
shot; when the son was about being taken away h
came up to his father and said, "Good-bye, father
the father then asked, "Are they going to take m
son aWay?" again he asked, "Will they not take car
of my SOM" assured him that they would.
DIR. H. b. Shapleigh sworn-I made post morteI
examination Of the body of the deceased; discol
cred five pistol-shot wounds upon the body, on
three inches to the left and upwards from umbilicu
the ball passed through the stomach and Spleen an
was found beneath the skin in the back, just belo
the ribs three inches to the left OF the spine
Another wound was an inch and half to the rigl
of the end of the ensiform cartilage. The ba