Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-08
Charles Winston, Colored, Accused of
Killing His Wife.
STORY OF CRIME As TOLD BYVlTNESSES
Three Bullet Wounds Found in the
Victims Head.
DEVELOPED BY AUTOPSY

LIE triCl IN the D1StTlSt
| within month was commenced today be-
fore Judge Bradley in Criminal Court No.
2. The defendant is Charles Winston,
| young colored man, who is under indictN
| ment for the murder of his wife. Emma
| Winston, the 18th of last December.
! Messrs. Turner and Keys are the attorneys
| for Winston, while Assistant District At
| toIneys Shilington and Laskey represent
| the government.
| The entire session of the court yesterday
was devoted to eE1paneling a jury. That
| proceeding was not concluded yesterday,
| and therefore occupied a part of the time
OF the session this morning The jury as
| completed consists of the following: Chas
| w. Lesh, Bernard Kuhn, Walter S. Gray,
Grafton Tyler, jr., Frank Magee, William
NICK. Osburn, Joseph Howard, Alexander
| Frazier, Joseph c. Kane, Francis L. Smith,
! James T. Childers and w. H. Hcughton.
| Assistant District Attorney Laskey eX-
| planned the case 10 the jury from The
standpoint Of the prosecution. Winston
Went to the room occupied by himself and
| wife, at 521 Sd street southwest, between
8 and 9 o'clock the morning of Monday,
| December ID. Mr.. Laskey said. Emma,
o'clock and IL o'clock. She prepared break
| fast and then went upstairs. Between IL
o'clock and o'clock Elizabeth johnson,
| Emma's sister-in-aw, who was down
| stairs, heard noise though something
| had fallen. She then heard Emma cry
Mercy The reports of two pistol shots
| followed. Elizabeth summoned police
| man, who went upstairs and found the
| door of Winston's room locked. The door
was forced open. Emma was lying on the
| led bleeding profusely from three wounds
| in the head. Winston was found by the
side of the bed on mis- knees, bleeding from
| a wound in the face.
Continuing, Mr.. Laskey stated that the
morning in question Winston obtained a
1 Inn rIvhn Ia hnd
| viously left it. The pistol was found on
| the bed. The government expected to prove,
| concluded Mr.. Laskey, that Winston had
repeatedly threatened to Kill his wife.
| Elizabeth johnson, First Witness.
! The first witness called by the govern
ment was Elizabeth Johnson, sister-in-law
| of Emma Winston. She heard something
| fall upstairs at the house, 521 I'd street
southwest, she said, about noon, the 18th
| of December The noise was followed by
| two pistol Shots Witness heard Emma ex-
| claim:
| Lord, have mercy"
Witness sent for policeman, who en-
| tered the room of the Winstons and found
| such state of affairs as Mr.. Laskey had
| described.
| Blake Johnson. husband of the preceding
| witness and brother of Emma Winston,
| testified. principally, to having heard Win
| ston utter threats against his wife sew
| Ell al occasions.
| TN make you smoke" and I'll kill you
| this night" were among the threats which
the witness said were uttered by Winston.
| The Autopsy.
DR.. l.. w. GlaZebrook, deputy coroner of
| the District of Columbia, who made an au-
| topsy on the body of Emma Winston next
| took the stand, ard described TO the jury
in detail the condition of the remains.
| Three wouads were found, evidently gun
| shot wounds. One had entered the face in
| front of the right ear. the bullet lodging
| near the top of the skull. The second bull
| let entered the right cheek ana passed up
| ward beneath the skin and out at a point
| above the right eye. The third bullet en-
| tered the face beside the nose and passed
| to the back of the mouth. One Of the
wounds, in the opinion of DR.. Glazebrook,
| vas critical, another would probably have
| of itself resulted fatally in the absence of
| prompt surgical assistance. The immediate
| cause of death was acute hemorrhage,
| caused by a gunshot wound. The woman
| at the time of death was remarkably
| healthy.
| Testifes to Threats.
| Lucy Nichols sister of Emma Winston
| testified to threats on the part of Winston
| directed against his wife. He said to her
| en- occasion: III kill you yet Mrs
| Winston said to the witness that she was
| afraid of her husband
| Henrietta Adams, who resided next door
d
her house that corresponded 10 the room
occupied by the Winstons in the other
| house at the time of the alleged murder
| heard Emma Winston say:
| Don't, Charlie, don't; don't, Charlie
| DON'T
This was followed by scream, and then
Emma called: Murder! MURDER
| DR.. c. w. Childs. who was next called.
stated that after the shooting, December
| Is, he was called to the house 521 Sd street
| southwest, reaching there shortly after l
| O'Clock. Emma Winston was then dead.
| Her husband was driven away from the
house in an ambulance just the witness
| arrived.
jeremiah Dee, employed at a restaurant
| ON 9th street. opposite the Center Market
testified that the morning of the shooting
winston visited the restaurant and was
given pistol that he had left there with
| the proprietor several days before
At this point of the trial a recess was
| taken.
Government Closes.
After recess DR.. Juenemann of the Emer-
Gency Hospital, Margaret F. Dunn, w. j.
Howard and Policemen Nicholson, Osborn,
Schroeder and Vermilion testified for the
government, which then announced its case
c'osed.
In outlining the deferse the jury was in
termed by counsel that Mrs. Winston
committed suicide and that before killing
herself she fired the shot that wounded
her husband.
ne deienuant was placed on the stand in
his own behalf. He declared that his wife
accused him Of running with another
woman. and was, therefore, angry with
him. The morning of the 18th of Decem-
Der. he said, he fell asleep in a rocking
chair. He was awakened by a pistol shot.
He went to his wife, who was lying on the
bed. He saw that she had his pistol He
tried to get 1T from her, when he felt a sud-
den shock and did not remember anything
further until he came to his senses in the
hospital.
winston had not concluded his testimony
when this report closed.
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