The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-10

! Monday. George Berrieu a brother of the
/ Washington woman took the clothes
I that are thought 10 have been taken of
/ the dead man to Ebenczer about twenty
/ four miles up the Savannah river.
/ Berrieu lives at Ebenezer When his
/ wife learned what there was in the pack
age she refused to have him keep it
I there. Affected perhaps by the fact that
/ he was making himself an accomp.ice in
/ the matter, and that he too might be held
/ guilty as such, he brought the clothes
/ back to the city Wednesday night last,
/ and took them TO the house of his father
/ at 1OG West Boundary street.
WOULD NOT RECEIVE THEM.
The father, Abelard Berrien, was not
/ at the house at the time and Berrien' S
mother Lizzie Bcrrien, refused 10 allow
! him to leave the clothes there. II is said
! that Richard Washington, Mary's hus-
/ band, went with Berrien when he carried
| the clothes 10 his fathers house.
! When they found they could make no
| other disposition of the clothes they threw
! them in an Clubhouse at Abelard Berriens
/ house where they became covered with
filth. It was there that they were found
by Detective Wetherhorn. They were
/ brought TO Justice Naughtin's Office
where an investigation showed that there
was considerable blood on them though
much Of it had been worn OF. There was
a large clot especially noticeable just I'M
der the arm of the coat.
This little story which came to Detect
i've Wetherhorn led to the arrest of the
parties the second time.
HAS A ROMANTIC SIDE.
There is scarcely tale of crime but
has its romantic side When arrested,
Mary Washington confessed her crime,
saying she hit Harden in the head with a
brick. She said that Edwards ana
another party, who has not vet been ar
rested, were witnesses Of the crime, and
that they are the parties who made away
with the body burying it under the floor.
She stated that her husband had helped
her remove the body from the room last
Monday night When brought into JUS
tice Naughtins office Richard Washing
ton protested his innocence, and turning
to his wife, raising his hands and showing
her the iron cuffs said: Mary you
brought me to this. You know you told
me you killed that man. Until you did
this never before had these things on
me, and you know you are the one that
did it,"
Yes" she replied, 81 killed the man,
hit him in the mead with a brick"
swOBE on A CROSS.
When arrested yesterday morning the
guilty woman asked for the solicitor gen
eral. Mr. Fraser was busy at the time
with the Biois trial and Acting Solicitor
Salas went down to see what was wanted.
IL was TO him that she made her confess
sion.
"She told him that she had hit Harden
with brick, knocking him senseless and
that Edwards and the other negro made
away with the body, buryIng it under
the floor of her room after cutting it to
pieces small enough to get into the hole
made When questioned as to Edwards
part in the matter, she only said he had
taken advantage of her. Handing Mr.
Salas a little brass cross she said:
sam Edwards and myself swore on
that cross we would never give one an
other away
The questioning was continued, but it
was of no use. She become stubborn and
refused TO answer any further
questions. When pressed, she replied,
Il am a member of the church and |
want to make peace with my God before
l tell about it.n
WHERE IS THE BoDY}
All efforts to get the Washington wo-
man to tell where the body had been
taken were of no avail. She was as stub
born as a mule
Detective HUMPHREYS and Officer J. II.
Britt were sent down from Justice
Naughtins court 10 make investigation of
the room, and see if the body was still
there.
Their visit proved to be a very unsatis-
factory one. They found a mating in
the southwest corner of the room which.
when lifted, showed that the boards of
the floor had been saturated with kero-
sene. Raising the boards such horrible
stencil issued forth from under the floor
that they were bo-h sicllened. Some of
the dirt from under the floor was ralled
and found Of 4,
hair were mixed with il. A lot of it was
taken out and wrapped in paper.
Coroner Dixon was notified and went
down to the house to make an inyestiga-
tiOn. He found that there were bits of
flesh and parts of the dead negro's BODY
mixed with the dirt under the floor.
Patches of hair to which skin
was still hanging were also found.
About two buckets full of ammonia
had been poured into the hole
but it failed to accomplish the purpose
for which it had been placed there as the
t.. rible stencil was most sickening.
Coroner Dixon was fully satisfied that
the body had been removed from the
room recently, probably since Monday
when the investigation into the murder
began.
COULD HOLD NO INQUEST.
Coroner Dixon could hold no inquest
without the body, and efforts were made
for some time yesterday afternoon to ret
the woman to tell what had been done
with it. She was questioned by her
father, Abelard Berrien, by Detective
WetherhOrn and by Coroner Dixon, but it
was Of no avail.
The woman admitted that the body had
been removed from the room, though she
would not say where il had been placed.
On that subject she was silent.
She said she dug it up Monday night
with her husbnnd. This Richard Wash
| ington positively denies. He claims he
knew nothing about the murder until
yesterday morning, when Mary confessed
10 him that she had committed the deed.
He admits that he has been sleeping in
the house since Monday night, but denies
that he knew anything about the matter
until yesterday. He don't account for
how the body was removed without his
knowledge.
wAsHNGToN's MYSTERIOUS TRIP.
Washington was in Charleston about
the time OF the murder The sunday on
which Harden's disappearance was noted
he came to Savannah and went back the
same day
Another part of his story Is to the effect
that he was in hospital there paralyled
| on one side How paralytic could make
| such Tying trip he does not explain.
| Neither does he state for what purpose
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