Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-15
The Jenkins wife Murder.
VERDICT OF THE CoRoNER's JURY-THE
EAsSIN STILL AT LARGE

and reconmitted. Adjourned
The Jenkins Wife Murder.
VERDICT OF THE CoRoNER's JURY-THH AS
sAssIN STILL AT LARGE.
Yesterday afternoon, DIR. j. L. Hartigan,
deputy coroner held an inquest on the body of
Iavinia Jenkins, killed by her husband, George
W; Jenkins, as stated in Yesterdays STAR.
tilted as to the developments on the post NOR
tenn examination, which revealedtwelve wounds
in all.
Further testimony was in the main corrotora-
tive of the statements in The STAR of yester-
day.
Officer Guy testified that last Saturday he was
passing the house of deceased, and saw two men
sitting inside; heard one say TO the other that
she would cut her ID throat;' listened fur
Their, but nothing more was said; next morning
Sunday he asked the deceased what the men
meant by the remark the night previous; she
replied, ''she guessed they referred TO some old
girl OF theirs in reply to the question whether
George (her husband) would hurt her, she said
''she didn e know what he would do when he got
mad
Robert jenkins, brother of George W.. testi-
fed that the latter sometimes qUarreled with
the deceased.
Sarah Jenkins. aged four years, child of de-
ceased, replied, on being questioned, that her
papa killed mamma I'm bed, and that she was
instrument he used.
Amelia Rounds testified that she resides next
door. The little girl came to witness and told
her that her mamma was dead. Witness re-
Piled, "She ?'' and the child said, YES"
Witness asked her who killed her mother, when
she replied papa.
The case was given to the jury and they re-
turned the following verdict: That the said
Lavinia jenkins, cOlCTed, came TO her death be-
tween the hours of and O'Clock, of the morn
ing of the 18th of May, 1872, at her house, No.
Aforesaid, from wounds received about the head
and neck, and they further find that said
wounds were inflicted by cleaver In the hands
of Geo. ". Jenkins, her husband"
FACTS AND RUMORs.
The deceased was a member of Asbury NJ. f..
Church, and her husband was formerly mem
Der. he Is native of Montgomery county,
Nd, and was raised not far from Dranestown.
Although the police have been making strenuous
efforts TO secure a clue as to his whereabouts
they have failed so far. 1t is generally believed
that he has not left the city and some are under
| the opinion that he has committed suicide. On
Monday night, as he was leaving Wormleys, he
/ one, and If they did not see him again they
/ would see Lis name in the newspapers.
| TIE REMAINS OF THE MURDERED WOMAN
were yesterday encssed in a handsome walnut
| coffin by Nr. Il. F. Harvey, undertaken, who
removed them to the residence OF a sister of the.
/ deceased, at No. l37 l. street y. W., where du-
/ ring the evening and to-day, the body wac
| ' Ted by large numbers of colOred people.
The wound on the face and neck present a
| shocking spectacle. The funeral will take
/ place from the Asbury church, corner of 18th
and the remains will be inferred in the Harmo-
NAL cemetery, in the county.
/ . LctTF-Lleut. johnson reports TINS morning
/ that jenkins was in town last night, and the
lieutenant, having good reasons to believe that
ne was at his brothers house, on 10th street,
near p, went there, but did not find him
| Fastening to a house on 18th street, near Rhode
! Island avenue, in which it was supposed the
| fugitive was secreted, he then found that he
nae been anticipated, AID that the hsuse was
| empty.
There was a report in circulation this after
noon that jenkins had been arrested in Alexan-
| dria; but DO information confirmatory Of such
report had been received at police headquar-
tiers up to three O'Clock p. m.
| TIE BoARDoF PUBLIC WORKS have addressed
] communications to the following persons doing
business on the line OF the canal, requesting
\ Them, within ten days from date, to vacate the
| wooden buildings now occupied by them on the
banks of the canal, inside Of b street north,
between 9th and 10th streets Thomas Fahey,
| lime and wood yard; W. H. MARROW, wood and
coal yard; VIM. Mclean, lumber and building
/ material; Patrick Donohoo, blacksmith and
wheelwright shop; Daniel Smith, stable and
carriage house; Francis Mohun & Sons, lumber
! and building material; N. Fowler, wood ward;
| Geo. l.. Sheriff, wood and coal yard; T.. G.
| Wheeler, junk shop; Smith e. Brown, machine
| shop: Michael Kelly, blacksmith and wheel
| wright shop; John Sullivan, building material
and feed store.
| The board have had prepared a new system of
/ building regulations for consideration, which
! will soon be adopted
| e.. W. GOOdall has been awarded the contract
\ for putting in drops at the corners of park
curbing OF 9th, 10th, 18th, and 18th streets and
! New York avenue, andIOr laying six-inch pire
/ from SAID drops TO connect with traps at said
| corners.
| Since the LIST of January last the board have
/ received 60,C00 feet of sewer pipe of various
sizes. most OF which has been laid in the streets
/ OF this city.