National Republican., 1881-08-11
THE RECENT MURDER.
RESULT OF THE CoRoRER's INQUEST,
"snspiciOn Points Strongly to Chrislsns Taylor as
the Guilty Party ''-Blood and Hair Fonnd
Upon the Axe-Mieroseopic
Tests TO ne Made.

Inc inquest over the murdered t1Sher
children was resumed at the Second Precinct Sta
tion atnoon yesterday the following members ofthe
jury answering to their names when called by the
Coroner: James McNabb, jr, W. II. Haney, John
d. Lord, Albert G. Benson, Louis Behrens, and
Francis Ochsenriter.
The first witness called was Rose Taylor, the
daughter OF the woman accused Of the murder,
and her testimony was not of the positive charac-
ter 1t should have been. She would say yes to any
question asked no matter how II might affect any
previous assertions She WINS o trlHe nervous,
which was accounted for by her having been raised
In the country and never before subjected to 20
many inquisitorial glances Her testimony was
substantially as follows: 1.-THE first time my
mother went up to Mr. Fishers house Saturday
was between three and four o'clock. She was gone
about an hour and half The second time she
went away was after Mr.. Fisher came home, about
six o'clock. We were sitting In the door Of our
house when Mr. Fisher came up. This time she
stayed about quarter OF hour, aud soon after he
drove back toward the city.
SOMETIMES MY MOTHER HAS GrDDy SPELLS
In the head which last two or three days. Some
times these spells make her cross, and she threat
ems to hurt us with anything she can lay her hand
on. She says she don't get angry often, but when
she does It would be best for you TO keep out my
way, for If you don't stop nggravating me will
lay you out with the first thing get hold Of
When she came down from Mr.. Fishers the second
time she said 'Mr. Fishers two children are
dead, and we must get of the place. When she
sent me after my nephew l thought she wanted
him TO go up 10 the house after his mother. On
our way down told the boy that supposed we
would have to leave Mr.. Fishers place, as the two
children had been killed. l did not see any one
about the place except the hands who belonged
there. The first time she came back from Mr..
Fishers after leaving the washboard she walked
little faster than usual. She was walking very
fast, and when she got home
SHE SEEMED TRIPLE EXCITED.
wentup TO Mrs. Lynchs as soon as Mr.. Fisherleft
for the city again. She sent me after the boy. Be-
fore that he always came home by himself ! told
him to come quick, that his grandmother wanted
him. As Mr.. Fisher was going out of the gate he
said something that did not understand. My
mother said we would have to get away that
night
Harry Brown, who lives with Mr.. Fairtnx, just
outside the District line, testified that he knew
Rose TAYLOR. She was not working at Mr.. Fairfax's
Saturday. The Wednesday previous she was there.
Emma Green sworn: "she lived in the rear of
Asbury Mission Church. Had been to Christiana
Taylors house once, aud knew her. The 3Oth Of
May stopped ut her house to get water. She
asked me If that was my child had and told
her no. told her had raised 1t since II was u
month old She said, what 90 you want to bother
with other peoples children for when you've got
none of your own Take II and throw 1t down the
stone-pile there and
KILL 1T AND SELL THE CARRIAGE.
Nobody will ever know anything about it, She
said this IN the presence of my mother. When my
husband returned from the spring told him what
the old woman had said, and he said she must be
witchifed old fool"
Ephraim Barnes recalled: "He assisted In hitch
ing up the horses Saturday when Mr. and Mrs.
Fisher went to town. They left the place in sepa-
rate wagons, but both teams started together, one
behind The other. He was in front, with the
double team, and she had the single. When they
LEFT had not been away from the house over FIVE
minutes. Did not sec a man pass over the field in
his shirt-seeves, and II such thing had occurred
must have seen 1t. Nobody passed through the
field except the old woman"
Lieutenant James Johnson testified that 4" on the
morning of the Sth instant the old woman said she
WOULD TELL ALL ABOUT THE MURDER,
If he would let her co. Since then she has not said
anything ON that score, and when come to the
point she flies off OH something else She says the
man she saw up in the pines that day had on
yclowlsh dress or overalls. When she was going
to the house he hailed her He was a copper col
orcd man. She went out In the pines to look for
him, but could not find him."
The room was then cleared for the jury, which,
after lengthy discussion. returned
THE FOLLOWING VERDICT
That the said Joseph and Lizzie Fisher came
to their death between the hours Of eleven o. IN.
and six p. m, August g. at their residence Dundas
farm, on the Bunker Hill road, from injuries to
the head The jury are unable to say positively at
whose hands the deed was committed, but from
the evidence adduced suspicion points strongly
to Christiana Taylor as the guilty party"
The accused was locked up at the station last
night, but will probably be sent to Jail to-day,
with her daughter, who is held as a witness
| for the Government While the inquest was In
progress DR.. Hartgan made another examination
of the AK found near the children, and discovered
what seemed to be blood spots, to which several
fine hairs had adhered A more minute micro.
scopic test will be made to-day.
POSSIBLE cLEw.
correspondent write rs follows: "Some one
drew my attention to enclosed slip from this
mornings Post, and said he had heard Bywaters
was an escaped lunatic from Baltimore, and said
he thought 1t possible Bywaters, whose wander
ings from Baltimore to Georgetown might have led
him near Fishers house, may have murdered the
two children. Perhaps It may be worth your
while to get on to Bywaters.
"Joseph Bywaters, u lunatic, was brought in from
| the farm Of w. B. Brooke, above Georgetown, to
Police Headquarters yesterday and sent to the
| Insane Asylum"
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