National Republican., 1878-10-07
satmr,Ih,', Irngedy.

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| A terrible tragedy was enacted abort half.
past nine o'clock Saturday night In story
frame house, No. III Nineteenth street north.
west. \ colorcd man named James Stone
made brutal and evidently deliberate attack
upon his wife and sstcr.in.lw and cut their
throats with razor. Stones wife died yostcr.
day. Her sister, though very seriously in
urcd, Is alive and expected to recover. The
story briefly told is AS follows:
Albcrtie Stone wife o. the murderer not
having lived pleasantly with her husband, re.
Gently left him and took mp her abolc with
her two children aud her younger sister, la.
vinia Pitcher in the house in the locality
named. Stone has made repeated visits to
the house. aud OIL each occasion quar-.
relied with his wife anl siSter.in.law.
lie appeared to he victim of jealousy, and
| accused the sister Oftaking his wife away from
him. Saturday night he came TO sec them
about nine o'clock. Mrs Stones two children
were asleep up stairs, and Mrs. Stone, 1t is
thought, was busy in the room with them.
Llviuia was in the front room down stairs.
Stone forced open the door, nearly taking the
jamb along with it. Very fow words were
spoken. He then
ATTACKED LNvtStA sAyAGELy WITH An
| OPEN RAZOR,
chased her screaming into the yard back Of the
house, corncrcd her, and deliberately cut her
Throat. Mrs. Stone, hearing her sisters sshricks,
then came down stairs to save her, Ii possible,
when the Cnrtged brute fell upon her and
hacked at her thrOn with the razor, makinga
horrible, CHASTITY wound.
Stone then ran from the house Tho two
women ran after him, but fell before reaching
the sidewalk. The fearful cries of tho women
had by this time aroused the neighbors aud
they crowded to the spot to hnd the women
lltst2. ..f
cUlored men who saw Stone leave tho house
gave chase, and, after pursuing him over cir
CuitDus route, captured him as he was attempt.
ing to climb over the fence OF Jnrlines nur-
scry. They brought him back toward the
scene OF the tragedy, but on their way were
met by a large crowd Of neighbors who at.
tempted to take the prisoner from them, evil
dCutly for the purpose Of lynchiug him. as
their threats were loud and deep. Stones cap
tors held to him manfuly until the arrival Of
the police officers, Hess and Burrows, to whom
i he was delivered and taken to the Fourth Pre-
cinCt Station.
Drs. Newman, 2cyburn Mallau, and Men.
dell were summoned to the house, and in.
, vokcd all the skill they possessed to save the
lives Of the unfortunate women but skill
proved Of little avail
MRS. STONE DIED YESTERDAY At TWO O'clock.
As sho was unable TO speak before her death
, no deposition could he taken from her lips.
! Late on Saturday night Lieutenant Hurley
questioned her in the presence of Justice
Taylor, and she indicated by mods and shakes
, | Of the head that Stone cut her, and that she
had had no quarrel with him. Her sister
lavina, the only living~eye.witness to the
| terrible scenes, was able to talk yesterday for
. a short time, and in brief narrated the facts of
" stones visit and attack upon herselfand sister,
j rs told above. The razor which Stone used, Il
!. common one, with a wooden handle, WAS
picked up In the yard of the house by Lieu.
+, tenant Hurley.
An interesting incident of the tragedy Is
= that during all the disturbance and comno.
r tiOn the two children, who were sleeping ur
d stairs, were not walked, and they were found
). afterwards sleeping Us peacefully as though
n nothing had happened. One of tho children
= belongs to Stone the other his wife had before
n her marriage with him. Stone Is bright
, mulatto, about thirty.fOur years of age, rather
(, intelligent and not brutal looking.
1 lie is quite well known about the city, and
m has been partner with aman named Marshall
le im conducting the Exchange Hotel, co!orcd
,e clearinghouse, on Cstreet, near tho Baltimore
,t and Ohio depot. Those who know him say
m that he is OF good habits.
II Coroner Patterson held an inquest over the
$, body Of Albertie Stone at the Fourth precin,
station at six o'clock last evening. The fol
lowing jury was GmpanclCd Patrick Stan
le ton, William Mulhall, Thomas Joyce. Josial
i. II. holland, Samuel :, holland, Richard Edmon
u, IL.
William II Davis, Charles Hamilton. Napoleon
B1uvet, and Henry White. After viewing thu
ll BODY at the house the jury assembled at th,
,e station, and
- IN THE PREsESCr OF THE PRISONER,
's listened to tho following evidence:
e Maria Compton. nn old cOlorcd woman, wa
c sworn: Resided at No. lll5 Nineteenth street
t, next door to the place whore the tragedy oc,
X cured Size heard somebody next door cryin!
;. Murder" Witness ran and cried Murder
n. too. ThCu she saw aman aud u woman run ou
nd into the back yard. The man was runnin!
IS. after her. He caught her In the corner OF tn
ct fence that was where he cut her throat
or Witness saw him have her down, and sh
is fell over aud ha.looed that she was killed
sh Did not see the cutting. She scrambled u
and STATED through tho house, with the ma
still after her. She got out of the house an
t. fell IN front of the house. BY that time wit
at ness got out Of her house. The woman Ia
ia there until the police came. The man ran GU
Of the front of the house aud witgCss' son ra
after him. He ran up Nineteenth street to
wards the boundary. Witness saw no moro q
he him after that Witness did not know til
IN man. he was II stranger to her. Witness coul
nd not identity the prisoner. 1t WAS about min
La o'clock, she thought. Witness heard the ma
-, Nv when he got into the window. Witness di
n not know them, rs they had lately move
ed there.
n. Clarence CrOmptOn, son Of Nina, tcstifCt
er, | witness was At tue corner oil NlnUlCcnth an
~, VI streets between half.past nine and IL
re. o'clock. lie heard the cry of Murder !" an
ic, ran ncrO,s Nineteenth street aud saw the pr
~. Oner come ont Of No. lll7 and start toward
he street, when witness gave chase, running hil
he up Nineteenth street, across a vacant lot b.
tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth and VI an
y streets, aud then down Connecticut uvrEu
ed where the prisoner ran along In the shade OF
car to VI street. Witness then cried to hin
Il am pretty close TO you; | will get you
Then witness ran from the car over to JardnC
Ger guldcn and jumped upon the fence Ntnr
art then grabbed him and held him until asst,
,i, uuce came. Witness did not sec the aiiAy
~ the house. When witness caught him II
W. prisoner asked him to let him 90, and The
.cr ask ed him to lc, go his arm. That was all II
rn' prisoner said to him. The witness ideutinc
the prisoner,
'cr Many +. Comptun-Witrcss also lived
VI llij Nineteenth street.
lac she HEARD THE CRY or MURDER"
! ! saw tho girl lum out Of the door, pursued /
In' u man. She ran into corner Of the yRr
oO Witness did not know the man She had see
~ him come to the house in the day. She cuu
not recognize the prisoner In the room. II
T. witness did not hear the man when he broi
a. open the window. She heaId fall, Us If !
had r1Iup iutO the \yiuluw Shp hrurl n