Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-01

| SHARP II THE MURDEREB-THK xxAlYNArIoN
TO BE CONTINUED.
Saturday night about II o'clock pistol shot
was fred in the neighborhood of frame house
at 18th and streets northeast, where Hetty
Green, colored woman, lives and keeps Q
sort Of bar on the Lincolnshire" principle The
neighborhood is dark and lonely, with wide
stretches Of commons between the scattered
tenements.
When the police arrived there they found
lying on the ground near the door Of Hetty's
house the body Of young colored man named
Enoch Turner with pts tol-wound in his left
temple, which, it is thought, caused death
almost instantly. Around it were grouped Q
number Of colored people, none Of whom
could or would tell anything about the shoot
ing. During the night several arrests we're
made, but little was learned The prisoners
taken were Rose Wingfeld, Hetty Green and
her daughter, Fanny Williams, and Chas.
Daniels.
Early Sunday morning young colored man
named James Sharps, who worked with Turner
| In Chllds' brick-yard, was arrested on informa-
| ton that Sharps and Turner were together at
the time of the shooting. The police thought
| that there was little doubt that Sharps was i'm
plicated in the shooting
THE INQUEST.
| OOiOucK AdttcfbOu aoAu al AuQUobb III Tic case
at sixth precinct station at II o'clock this morn
ing. The prisoners were brought down from
the ninth precinct in a patrol wagon. Turner's
| body lay on plank in the morgue in the rear
Of the station-house.
| When the jury arrived they were sworn as Is
customary, over the body Of the dead man.
| Then they assembled in Lieut.. Kelly's room
where Coroner Patterson sat at the desk and
presided over the proceedings The Jury was
composed of NJ. J. Morgan. Patrick CIsick,
| George Prather, John Holmes, Geo. II. Gill
and Bushrod Hay.
ALEXANDER KINGS STORY.
| The first witness was a colored man named
Alexander King, who lives at 14th and East
Capitol streets. He said he was at "Aunt'
| Hetty's about ten minutes of 10 o'clock Satur-
| day night. Witness was talking with Aunt
Hetty's daughter, Frances Williams. He re-
manned there till about II O'Clock.
men went past the front door,
where the witness was sitting and passed
| around to the back door of the house. Two
| OF them entered the house and one of them re-
| manned outside. The two inside called for
something to drink. "Aunt" Hetty said: IL
haven't any" or II amt got bit" One of the
men in the house said to the man outside:
| Come in" Then the same man said to Aunt
| Hetty: 81 have got the five cents for my break
fast but haven't got my breakfast yet" and
with that pulled out his five cents.
| Just then the shot was fired. Neither Of the
men inside could have fired it. Witness could
| not see the man who was outside. 1t was dark
| in the room and witness could not see the faces
| OF the men inside. When the shot was fred
| the two men inside ran out and he heard one
say ''Who was that shot?" and ''Did you shoot
hm?' He understood some one TO
say "Yes." Witness then hurried out
but the men had gone around the front and
disappeared. Witness saw Sharp five or ten
minutes before the shooting, in front Of the
house. talking with Rose Wingfeld. Rose came
in the house to put up stick she had and went
out again to Sharp, and while she was out the
shot was fired. Sharp cam, in the house after
the shot was fred and said: There, they have
| shot that man to death"
The light was put out and witness went
home. Aunt Hetty wanted him to help move
| the body, but witness said he wouldn't do it for
twenty dollars. He got away from the house
| and hurried home The mans body was lying
| right at the back doo.. Witness thought from
the way he fell that he was sitting on the bench
there when shot. Witness did not know that
Turner, the deceased. and Rose were intimate
or ever went together. Witness did not know
of Sharp and Turner ever having had q quarrel.
ROSE wINGFIELD's TESTIMONY.
Rose Wingfeld, young colored woman, who
lives at 18th and East Capitol streets, was next
examined. She said she got to Hetty Green's
house Saturday night about 8 o'clock. Charles
| Daniels, Hetty Green, Francis Williams and
| King or Larkin, as he was called, were there.
| She did not know of any one coming
afterward. She left and went down to-
ward the river to John SCOTS. She went
alone, and was away about half an hour On
| returning she met Sharp in front of Hetty
Green's door. She did not see Turner. Wit
ness talked with Sharp awhile. Then witness
| went down to the pump to meet man, but did
not see him. Then she returned to Hetty
Green's and went into the house. and immedi-
| ately after she went in the shot was fired
Witness staid inside, she said, five minutes, and
when she went out she saw Sharp
| by the side of a house, strike match, and by
the light of the match she saw him put pistol
| in his pocket. The witness said he struck a
match so he could see the dead man. Sharp
then went away. The witness said when she
| went into the house she went by the back door,
| or what she called the back door, This was the
door that King called the front door.
WHAT AUNT HETrY SAID.
Hetty Green, an elderly colored woman, a
little feshy, with a coppery colored face like an
Indian squaw, was examined next. She wore
| black straw hat, with wide brm and band
I Ct crimson velvet. She said Rose came to the
house about 10 or 1890 She wanted witness
to take care of some meat and bread for her
because she said she was not going home that
night but was going to stay atold man Hollands
| She said Sharp came by the house and asked
| where Rose was and she told him she had Just
| gone down the street. She thought he went
after her. and they came back to the house to-
gether. Witness said she was lying down in a
doze when the shot was fred. She got up and
Just then Rose came into the house and witness
asked her: who is that shot2" She said:
II don't know, but two men
have just gone down the street."
| When witness went outdoors she saw
Jim Sharp and asked HIM, did you shoot that
mani" and he said NO. indeed" Rose was
not in the house when the shot was fred The
witness said she thought what King said about
the two men coming into the house and asking
for drinks was true, but she was in a doze and
could not remember what occurred. She said
Rose was no more intimate with Turner than
| with Others
Rose, the witness said, told her that the man
| who fired the shot had gone down the street.
She said he was a dark man and measured with
her hand to show how tall he was.
DIR. Schaeffer, who performed the autopsy,
described the course of the ball through the
left temple and through the brain. The ball
was lodged on the right side, near the base Of
the brain.
ADJOURNED TILL TOMORROW.
At this point Coroner Patterson adjourned
the inquest until II o'clock tomorrow in order
to secure the attendance Of John Scott and
some other witnesses deemed important in
view Of the conflicting statements Of the Wit
nesses examined to-day. zs,-------.--- s..,,.-s