Evening journal., 1899-09-28
ONE CENT
GEORGE Rash ACCUSED
Wounded Man Tells Straight
forward Story of Shooting.
SHELL FITS SUSPECTS GUN

GEORGE W. RASH NOW THREAT
EMS TO KILL TRAvERs If HE
COMES ACROSS HIS PATH-LAT-
FER AND MRS. RASH INTENDED
TO ELOPE AGAIN.
seaford, Sept. 2S.-George w. Rash
has been formally charged with murder
Ious assault by George Travers.
States Attorney Higgins, OF Dorches-
ter county, Md, spent several hours at
the bedside Of Travers yesterday and
will Gle the affidavits to-day.
As result of his interview with
States Attorney Higgins Travers made
oath accusing George w. Rash, of vi
emma, of having shot him.
The states attorney has been sick
and heard Of the crime for the first
time Tuesday night.
Mr.. Higgins had with him the red
bandana handkerchief that was found
tied to tree at the scene Of the trag-
edy and the empty cartridge shell that
was found I'm the roadside there
Travers identified the handkerchief
as the one he placed on the tree.
claiming that he had done so according
TO arrangement by letter with Rash's
wife to notify her OF his presence in
the neighborhood ,Travers said she
wrote that she would tie a white rag
i'm the tree to indicate her presence
should he not be about when she ar
rived The meeting between Mrs. Rash
and himself was arranged for the same
place at which he met her last Novem-
Der when he eloped with her.
Another elopment had been plan
ned. Travers told the states attorney
that there was no doubt as to the iden-
tity OF the writer Of the three letters he
received from Vienna; that the hand
writing was that OF Mrs. Annie Rash.
Il know the writing better than my
swn, he declared and stated that he
would not shield the woman. his love
for whom had placed him in his pres
ent precarious plight.
The amazing GOODNESS with which
Rash now threatens the life of Travers,
whose recovery is not assured by any
means, is only exceeded by the SINGER
ity with which he regrets that it was
not he who fred the shot that may
bring him face to face with a formal
charge Of murder in the first degree.
81 wish it had been me who shot him."
said Rash; II 1t had, would have
blown hole clear through him with
my new Remington No. 10 gun. which
was made especially for me"
BY singular coincidence. the empty
cartridge shell that was found at the
scene OF the murder is a No. TO- such
as is used in Rashs gun.
Mrs. Rash was told that Travers
would make affidavit to-day to the ef-
feet that she wrote the letters that
decoyed him to the spot where he was
shot.
HE ought to know she answered.
Then she said she had not sent any
letters to Travers since last Novem-
Der.
did you write any?"
Il did not send any" she replied
RASH OUTLINES HIS ALIBI.
Rash IN setting up his alibi claimed
that he could prove by John Bradley,
who keeps livery stable next door 10
where he lives. that he was not out Of
Vienna last Thursday night. Mr.. Brad
ley says that he talked to Rash in front
of the latters shop about $50 o'clock
on the evening of the shooting, and in
a few minutes went about his business.
THE next time he saw Rash was about
l1015, when he stopped at Rash's house
on business. He said Rash looked out
and Mr.. Bradley thought he had been
in bed. Rash's wife said that her hus-
band was in the house between those
hours and that he went to bed about Q
I o'clock.
Rash claims he could not have gone
to the scene of the shooting, some ten
miles away, and back within the hours
specified by Mr. Bradley, no matter
D how he traveled-driving, wheeling or
/, rowing on the river.
Rash joined church after the elope-
5 ment Of Travers and his wife last No
D vember, and poses as a very religious
/; man.