The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11
STILL YELLED IN MYSTERY.
The Story Of HaTdcn'S Murder Not
Yet UlT2yGlod.


Little idea as to What Was Done
With It-She Becomes wild and
Tries to Choke ChiId-A Telltale
Barrel and Ida Young's Story Of
How it Was Burned by Mary-Ed-
wards and Washington Still Protest
Their Innocence and Ignorance of
the Whole affair.
There is still a veil Of mystery around
the brutal murder of Isaiah Harden. All
attempts made yesterday to get some
clew to the wherca bouts OF the body were
unfruitful
The murderess was questioned again
and again. by her father, Abelard Berrien,
and by the officers but without results.
Richard Washington was also examined,
but he told the same straight story with
the same straight face, although his wife
adheres to one statement to the effect
that he helped her carry the body away.
Sam Edwards still 5uro,es,s that he
knows nothing about the crime. He says
he expects to go TO heaven some day, and
for that reason he can not tell lie now.
He denies that he ever went near Mary
Washiugtou's house until q day or two
ago, when he went there to fix an organ.
MARy's MIGHT IN JAIL.
Mary spent a very restless night in jail.
She was put on the top floor and slept in
the same cell with another woman. Dur
ing the night her companion says she sud
denly sprang up in bed and cried aloud,
"My God! there he is come to haunt me"
Before retiring she began talkingover
the circumstances Of the crime with her
newly made companion. Her roommate
told Detective Wctherhorn yesterday that
Mary had pCrpeTated new version of
the killing She told this woman
that she had killed Harden with an
ak with which she hit him in the
head After this she said she cut
up the body ana put it in the hole under
the floor. The body, she said, was re-
moved by herself and her husband, but
there she stopped, and, as in her other
versions, she gave 10 idea as to where the
body had been placed.
WANTED TO choke Baby.
The woman. IL seems, mas been wander
ing In mind ever since the tragedy came
TO light. Whether her slight insanity is
pretended or real is a question in doubt.
Yesterday morning about 4 o'clock, or
shortly after that time, she was wander
ing about IL the hall or corridor near her
cell. All at once she became almost wild
She started at a young baby the child of
francis 4ounglOve, which is but weeks
old, and clutched wildly al the air as if
she wanted to choke IT,
Fortunately The mother of the child
had il in her arms a. the time and the
other women in the corridor VINO We're
aroused by the noise ran to her assist
ance and kept the apparently frenHed
woman from reaching the child.
After this 10 was decided best to lock
Mary in q cell. She was locked up by
herself and was kept there during the
day yesterday.
A TELLTALE BARREL.
Ida Brinson or Ida Young, which is her
proper name, told a story yes, crdav
which gave a little more insight into the
affair She said there had been a barrel
near Mary Washiugton's room for a long
time. Tuesday morning she noticed a
horrible smell around the place, which is
next to her room. She thought il was a
dead rat and made an Investigation. She
did not learn it herself, but others told
her during the day that the stencil came
from the barrel. Tuesday morning Ida
Young SAID Mary Washington took this
barrel out in the back yard cut it TO
pieces, and then burned itup.
Detective WcthCrhJrn made note of
ali these particulars. as they seemed 10
give some insight into tho removal of the
body which was supposed TO have been
taken away Monday night.
Richard Washington was questioned
about the matter again shortly after this
time. He was asked about the barrel
What barrel?n he asked in astonish-
ment
That barrel your wife had around the
house, the detective replied
Washington protested ignorance of the
barrel until pressed closely, when he said:
"Oh, that barrel When | went to
Smart's mill Tuesday morning it was
there, but when come back it had dis
appeared"
That was all that could be obtained
from Washington. He insisted that he
was ignorant of the whole proceedings
from beginning TO end. and that the first
he heard of the murder was Friday
morning, when his wife told him she did
1t II is believed that he and his wife
removed the body in the barrel Monday
nlght, and after dlsposng of it brought
the barrel back and burned it the next
morning
TALKS INCoHERENTLY
The woman. within whose mind is
locked up the facts that are now needed to
complete the chain of evidence. seems TO
have become partially insane. Whether
II IS real or pretended, it is hard to say.
There is no doubt about the fact that she
Is worried, and this may have some effect
on her mind. Yesterday Detectives Nor
gan and Wetherhorn, and Abelard
Berrien, her father, went down
TO the Jail to see if they could
prevail upon her to tell what had been
done with Harden's bodv 1t was impos
slble however, TO get her t. tell anything
straight. When first asked she said Rich
ard Washington killed Harden, and a
minute or two later she asserted lust as
positively that Harden had been killed by
Sam Edwards The only statement in
which she did not contradict herself was
that she and her husband had taken the
body from under the floor and carried it
away Monday night.
TWO STORIES ABOUT THE BODY
When asked about the body, she said
said they had taken it to the yard next
door Monday night and had buried il
under some trash in an clubhouse. When
asked If the body WAS still there. she re-
piled: 1T was there"
Another time in the conversation she
was asked what had been done wi h the
body and replied. "Bichard WASHINGTON
and me pat it in a trunk and carried il
out in the woods" But that was as far
as she would so.
a second time she told the story about