Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-11
The Double Murder.

CHRISTINA TAYLOR COMMITTED TO JAIL-A CHILD'S
PRESENTLY ENT.
After the inquest at the second precinct STA
lion yesterday. Coroner Patterson committed
the old woman, Christina Taylor to Jail. on sus-
piciOn of numbering the two Fisher children
The other two prisoners Rose Taylor and James
Con were released In regard to the retention
OF l. ) washington as counsel for Christina
Taylor it is stated that this done by an assO-
cation not because they approve of lawlessness
and crime. but because they desire that justice
should be done; that the prisoners be fairly tried
10 Is stated that should the prisoners be held for
trial Colonel W. A. Cook and Colonel Robert
Christy will be employed in the defence.
WAS 1T A PREsENTINENT?
On Saturday morning when picking vege-
tables for market. the children found some
white flowers and told Mrs. Fisher to give them
70 the Virgin Mary, the youngest adding
hopping that she will make me good boy, and
keep the niggers from killing me-
5HE OLD WOMAN ABOUT TO CONFESS, But WITH
HOLDS HER STATEMENT.
The old woman. Christina Taylor, is believed
by the police officers generally to have commit
ted the murder and this belief is strengthened
by her actions and words. 1t will be remem-
beTed that on Monday she said to Lieut John
son that If she could get off she would tell all
about 1t; but that she has since declined to saw
further Inls morning she was brought out OF
the cell at the second precinct station at her
suggestion. TO tell all about it. When she
w
telling it, for it will only make it worse for me-
Neither Lieut.. Johnson nor any of his officers
could Induce her to say anything else
REASONABLE THEORY
The police are generally of one opinion as to
the crime. viz: The old woman (whO lived on the
place. when she went to the house to re-
turn the dashboard determined to see what she
could take. and was discovered by tie children
or one OF them. or perhaps had some words with
them about going into the house when she
hat CHI he,
formed on strnck one with the washbOard and
killed it, and then being fearful of the conse-
quences, put the witness of the deed (the other
child out of the way. and that the dog got after
her when she ran away.
Is TIE OLD WOMAN CRANK?
The old woman is believed by some not to be
In her right mind and it is evident that she is Of
Avery low order of intellect. Christina TAYLOR
and her daughter. Rose Ohe latter evidently
Knowing more than she has yet todd were to-
Gay sent TO jail and the boy Cough released.
THE OLD wONAN's VISION.
The old woman yesterday. in an interview
with party residing near the station, said:
when was asleep last night saw it all i'm a
Vision: black man wearing a yellow coat and
yellow pants was at the house. and he took the
axe and knocked dOwI, both of the children and
then laid the axe down and left"
IHE POLICE DGNoTFAvORTHET THEORY THAT RYE
WATER. THE INSANE MAN, HAD ANYTHING TO
Do WITH If.
IL has been suggested that from the pOsition
IN which the Fisher children were found-the
head Of one at the feet of the other. with a
Christmas tree at the head of all.-showing an
ecceGtric;ty in the arrangement i'm HARMONY with
the act OF a crazy person. that there is posi-
biiity that Joseph Byewater, the crank arrested
on a farm north Of Georgetown on Monday last
may have had something to do with it, This
theory does not meet with much favor from the
police authorities. They state that it has not
been shown that any stranger was seen in
the neighborhood when the act was commit
ted and that il is not possible that
any person could pass through that thickly peo-
pied ne!ghbOrho0d without being seen by some
one. Byewater was taken to the GEORGETOWN
station and remained there until Tuesday morn
Inc. when he was taken TO police headquarters
BY the sergeant in charge and put aboard train
Tor Baltimore that evening. He is represented
as being small sized man. poorly dressed
badly insane. and said he was from Baltimore
and in search of Philadelphia street; his face
and arms were scratched and one of his eyes
osaehened by some man i'm the county who
struck him. On his way 20 the depot he told MFR.
"eeden. the driver. that he had seen an old
acquaintance in the country with whom he had
ioii: talk. His passage paid 10y the au-
tEofitles rather than send him to the insane
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