Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-18
HIS ANTE-MORrEM STATEMENT.
Emanuel Taben Tells Of His Diniculty
With Thomas Heath.

With Thomas Heath.
Emanuel Tapen has made his ante-mortem
statement He believes that he is going to die,
and his belief is substantiated by DIR. Koones,
who is attending him at Providence Hospital
The sad duty of taking the dying mans state
ment was performed by Messrs. Howard Ga
gett and Alex. r Mullowney, assistants to Dis
trict Attorney Hoge, and they were assisted by
Mr.. Harvey Owens, who 10 also Q member of
that Office.
The wounded man was lying on a cot on the
upper floor where several other sick persons
could hear his groans The poor man seemed
pleased that persons thought enough of him to
visit him in the hospital. 1t was the first task
of the kind that Mr.. Clagett had ever at
tempted, and the pitiful appeals of the sufferer
for the Lord TO take him had a telling effect on
those who we're hearing his supposed dying
statement.
Taben's statement was substantially the same
as the facts published in yesterdays STAR.
WHAT THE DYING MAN SAID.
He said that the trouble originated on ac-
count Of his starting to go out OF the back
gate. When Heath objected to his going out
of the gate he saw that there was going to be
trouble, and, to avoid fight he returned in
tending to 60 out the front alley. When he
was about to pass Heath the latter struck him
with an ak and was about to deliver another
blow when he (Iaben) caught hold of the Ak
and took it from him.
HE fell down." said the sufferer. and les
tapped him on the head with the ak"
lis he dead yet?" he asked
NO. indeed" he was told.
81 thought he wasn't" said Taben with a
sigh of relief; "when amt dead"
Resuming his statement he told of a threat
uttered by Heath, which was, I'm kill you at
the risk OF my life.'
When he tapped" Heath with the .'eye" of
the ak woman cried, Don't kill father"
whereupon he dropped the weapon that had
then injured both of them and went in the
house. He was at his room door when Heath
came through and attempted to renew the fight
by trying to bite him.
Heath" he said, showed me into my room
and locked tho door from the outside. Riley
Griffin was in the room with me-"
lie then told that when the trouble started
he was on his way out to get some oil, and in
the scuffie he lost his three cents When one Of
the women unlocked the door the boy went out
and then he (raben) got three pennies and
started out again to get some oil.
when L got out Of my door," said Taben,
"he had the ends on me and cut me to my hol-
low. lie stabbed me In my left breast" He
concluded bis statement by saying that he drew
the blade OF the shoe knife from his own body.
When he had made his statement the old
man called Mr. Clagett doctor" and said that
as he (Iaben) was dying he probably would not
see HIM again i'll this world, but he hoped he
would meet him in heaven.
The patient was much worse this morning
and was reported by the physicians to be dying.
A Child Run Over by IL Brick Wagon.
Julia Collins, a three-y ear-old child, was run
over yesterday by an empty brick wagon IN
front OF her residence, No. GIG H street south
west, and was badly injured. On discovering
what he had done the driver rapidly drove off.
DIR. Hore, who is attending the child, states
that her condition is critical.
A Mysterious Cutting ARRAY.
Sergt Trunnell last night about IL 20 o'clock
found John Williams. colored, on Pennsylvania
avenue between 10Th and goth streets suffering
from a severe cut on the left arm He was at
tended by Drs. Morgan and Francis, who
dressed his wound and he was then sent to his
home, No. 1909 II street northwest All at
tempts to ascertain how and by whom he was
cut were futile. Williams positively refusing to
give any information which might lead the
police to ascertain anything about the cutting.
A School Presented With a Flag.
Last evening very pretty ceremony took
place at the Blake school building on North
Capitol between X and l. streets, Misses W.
E. keefer and ]. Z. Just, the committee, and
MIR. II. K. W. Patterson making the address
presenting to the school handsome American
flag on behalf of Liberty Council, No. 2, o. U.
A. NJ. There were about $50 pupils present
and after the address the flag was thrown to
the breeze, while the Star Spangled Banner"
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