Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-01
A VERDICT OF SUICIDE.
Result Of the Coroner's Inquest in the Case of
Ignatius Glance.

1 lgnadus Glance.
As published in yesterdays STAR the body of
Ignatius Glance, the man who committed sui
eide after shooting his wife in the head. was
taken from the potters field dead wagon yester-
day and placed on the cooling table in the
morgue, where Deputy Coroner Schaeffer made
an autopsy later in the day.
| The coroner's jury assembled at 4 o'clock and
heard the testimony Of witnesses. which failed
to substantiate the plea Of the deceaseds friends
that the man did not do the shooting.
POLICEMAN scRAMLfNs EVIDENCE
Policeman Edward J. Scramlin Of the second
precinct was the first witness called. He told
the jury that he reached the house in less than
| two minutes after the shots were fired. He was
| about forty or fifty yards from the house when
the double tragedy was enacted. Witness did
| not hear the shots, but he was attracted there
! by the screams of q woman. When witness
reached the store he found the front door locked
1t took him but an instant to burst open the
| door. Behind the counter on the floor he found
the dying man. The pistol was on his right side
| between his ankle and knee.
"was the man still breathing?" inquired the
| coroner.
eyes sir" replied witness.
did the woman come in the room?"
"Did you hear the woman say that she was
| shot?'
"Yes SIR"
IBID she say who shot herf'
"No, SIR"
Witness said he had been unable TO find any
one who saw the shots fred. He heard others
say that the womans husband shot her.
MRS. MAHEB's STORY.
Mrs. Annie Maher, who lives in the house
where the tragedy was enacted, was next sworn.
Her statement was that she was standing at her
front door when the shooting occurred. She
first heard tho womans screams and there be-
ing so much noise on 7th street she thought
there was fight in the alley in the rear. She
started to run back, when she heard pistol
shot. 1t sounded like muffled shot, like the
shot passed through something before ii took
effect. Mrs. Glance almost fell into witness
arms. She was holding her hand to her ear and
said, my husband shot me-" While witness
was passing through the hall with Mrs. Glance
| she heard the second shot fired. The second
shot made a louder report than the first, as the
doors were open and witness could hear it more
distinctly
Have You heard any report there that Mrs.
Glance shot him?" asked the coroner.
Yes, sir, answered witness. Il heard that
right away, but no one in the house said it."
WAS Mr.. Glance drinking man?n
"Sbe told me that he never drank anything"
did they live peaceably together?''
Il never heard any trouble between them.
York; that she could not live with him because
he did not give her enough to eat"
WHAT MISS BOWMAN SAW AND HEARD.
Miss Lizzie Bowman also lives in the same
house. She was at home the day of the shoot
ing. Witness was upstairs at the time She
heard scream and then pistol shot was fired.
The woman rust ed out the back door and her
husband followed her several feet She was
screaming that she was shot. The husband
then returned to the store and witness heard a
noise that sounded like somebody jumping. A
moment later she heard pistol shot and then
there was a sound like mans body falling to
the floor. When the husband was following
Mrs. Glance he had something in his hand but
she could not say that it was revolver When
the deceased was following his wife witness saw
no blood on him. The wife was CRYING, 'Tm
| shot, and Hes shot me-"
How long have you lived there?" the coro-
ner asked
"About two months" was her reply.
Have they lived quietly together?''
"She had him arrested once for beating her.
She seemed like very nice woman
THE BULLET PRODUCED.
DR.. shadd Of Freedman's Hospital pro-
duced fattened bullet which he said
was taken from the woman's head. The
bullet entered the back of the woman's head
| and was taken out the top of her head. The
patient, he said is now suffering from erysipelas
Officer ScramliE was recalled and he pro-
duced the weapon found by the mans side
Two shots had been fired from the weapon and
| the remaining three chambers were loaded
DIR. Patterson said that some one told of
there having been three shots fired.
"a number Of rumors have been in circula-
ton" remarked Lieut.. Teeple; somebody has
been busying himself trying to create a SEN
sation."
MR.. oTrENBERG's TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Isaac Gutenberg. baker, who resides at
No. 1913 7th street, testified that his attention
was attracted to the scene of the tragedy by
hearing the woman screaming. He saw her on
the sidewalk. She had her hand to her head
and blood was streaming from the back Of her
head. Witness went in the store after the Off
| Ger had broken open the door and discovered
| the man lying on the floor behind the counter.
Witness did not hear the shots fired.
Deputy Coroner Schaeffer told of having
made the autopsy and extracted bullet from
shell taken from the pistol. He thought it
about the size of the fattened bullet taken from
the woman's head. The bullets were weighed.
| and the difference in weight between them was
less than one-hundredth of grain.
A VERDICT OF SUICIDE
The jury took the case, and without any de-
liberation returned a verdict of suicide