Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-18
THE PROSECUTORS OPENING ADDRESS
Result of Autopsy as Told by
Deputy Coroner
THE EVIDENCE INTRODUCED


morning before Justice Clabaugh in Crimi-
| nal Court No. l. The past two days have
| been devoted to the work of empanelng a
| jury. Twelve men satisfactory to both the
| prosecution and the defense were not Sc
| cured until an hour after the opening OF
! court this mornlng. These finally sworn TO
| pass on the guilt or innocence of Horton
are Messrs. Emmett Hopes. Charles Z,
| Fries, Z. W. Yount, William g. Tippett
Cresson f. Finch, Edwin Burke. John $
| Abel, john NJ Harry, Lawrence Mangum
George N Hill, George W. Reintzee and
| James G.. Bates
| The case has attracted wjdespread atten-
| tlon, and the court room was crowded
| throughout the day. The defendant man
| OF middle age, neatly dressed and of re-
| spectacle appearance. was, to all appear
| anceS the least concerned OF any one in
| attendance al the trial. His wife however
| was deeply interested in every word spoken
| her feelings evidently being highly wrought
| up. Other relatives of the defendant were
| also present
| The prosecution is in the hands Of Assist
| ant District Attorneys Shillington and Las
| key. Attorneys Tracy l.. Jeffords and Rob-
eft G- Wells appear for Horton.
The Opening Address
The opening address to the jury was
| made by Assistant District Attorney Las
| key. He told of an intimacy that existed be-
which reached such stage that Horton
| even prohibited the woman from seeing
| members of her family. The deceased de-
cided to cease her relations with the de-
| PENDANT, it was said, and notified him.
! 1hey met in Armory Square the evening ot
| the oath of last June, had fatal quarrel,
| and Horton followed it up by deliberately
! killing the woman. After infiicting fatal
| wounds he started away, but returned to
| the expiring woman, and after remarking
a moi G,ll vet
| pleted his CHASTITY work,
The government expected to prove, said
Mr.. Laskey, that Horton had committed a
deliberate murder, and therefore verdict
of guilty as indicted would be expected
| from the jury.
Result of Autopsy.
The defense reserved its opening and the
| government called its first witness DR..
| Larkin w. Glazebrook, deputy coroner.
DR., Glazebrook testified that he per-
| formed autopsy on the body of Mrs.
| Jane Nicholson and found at least twelve
! incis9d wounds about the head, body and
hands The face of the woman was COM
! peteiy ds1gured. There was tremen-
| dous gap in the neck, a CHASTITY and neces-
sariiy fatal wound. The windpipe was
| pulled forward.
The next witness was Alberta Lamb col
ored. The evening of June ~ last, she said.
she was passing along a path in Armory
Square, leading from the ~ street entrance
to Missouri avenue. She noticed a man and
d woman ahead Of her. The man suddenly
grabbed the woman by the wrist and struck
her. He then took something from his
pocket and cut her across the throat.
The woman attempted to rise, but the
man pressed her hack. and with his knee
on her breast cut her again. The man
started away. witness said, took a bottle
fro m his pocket. drank from it, and then
threw the bottle on the grass. He returned
the afr3jO her and said.
Goodbye, old girl. YOU won't never de-
caive me any more.
The witness identified the defendant as
the man who did the cutting.
Another Eyewitness.
George W. Harrison. another eyewitness
of the alleged crime, next took he stand.
He noticed the couple in Armory Square,
he said, and they were apparently quarrel
ing. The witness saw Horton strike the
woman with knife. He then went on TO
give a statement of the affair that was
substantially the same as that of Alberta
Lamb. MIR. Harrison had seen the couple
sitting on a bench in Armory square the
evening preceding the murder.
AdOlph f. AronsOn. who al one time
worked with Horton, told the jury that he
reached the scene of the murder just as
Horton was leaning over the woman with
his knee on her breast, cutting at her
throat. The witness described the arrival
of policemen and the arrest of the deien l.
ant.
Heard Woman's Cries.
David Clark, colored, next called by the
prosecution, stated that the evening of the
18th Of last June he was driving. and on
entering Armory Square, from ~ street, he
saw Horton cutting a woman. She was on
her knees and he was standing over her.
II heard the woman exciaim: Don't kill
me" testified Clark, and l then hurried
off in the direction of the 9th street depot
after policeman"
Peter Latimer, jr., who lives near the
scene of the murder, was called as a wit
ness. He noticed that something of an I'M
usual character was in progress in the
park, and ran there. He noticed Horton
standing over the woman and hear. him
say to her:
''If you re not dead. I'll kill you"
Horton thereupon cut the womans
throat said the witness and next stabbed
her in the breast.
When l reached the scene" testified
Louis f. Dorm. the next witness, Il saw
man standing over woman. My first i'm
preston OF the situation that park
policeman was rendering assistance of some
nature TO person who stood in need of
he p. / soon realized the real state of af-
fairs. The man reached his left hand in a
wound in the woman's throat, and with a
knife in his right hand began cutting
away
Franklin B. A Hill, colored, told the iurv
throat; saw him reach in. pull out the
windpipe and slash at it.
Were there other people present. the
witness was asked on cross-examipation
Several hundred was the reply
Could not any of them have stopped the
mani" the next query.
They could" the witness answered
why did they not dc it,
Because they were afraid; he might
have had pistol or some other weapon"
Wilson Barnes and Frank Barr described
the killing, did Mollie S. Taliaferro.
Il went close to Horton and the wo-
man as l could get" said the witness last
named. After Horton had cut the
wonHn's throat he said to her: Goodbye;
are you dead? The woman nodded her
head Horton then said: If you're not
deaf I'll finish you
Il nd he did finish her." declared the
witness significantly.
At this point a recess was taken.
COrrObOratfVe Testimony
After recess the government continued
the introduction of testimony by placing
James Handy, colored, on the stand. He