The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-03-21

move. and she talks only with the great
est difficulty. Dr. ~ A. Ryon. Of Bowie
who is attending her. dressed her wounds
this morning and stated thai she was
doing very well and he thought she
would recover. though she would not be
well for quite a while.
Miss Annie Ciarke's Story.
4 reporter visited the room OF Miss
Clarke. Sympathetic neighboring women
are nursing her She talked briefly and
with pain in answer TO questions, fre-
qUently waving one arm. the hand OF
which was scratched and bruised in the
struggle. She said.
1T was just al supper. We weren'i
either one feeling well and hadn't been
all day. I had been having a bad head
ache, and so We thought We would have
just d piece Of bread and a cup of tea.
We sat down while he was doing chores
around We never had the slightest idea
beforehand about IT, II We had. we could
have prepared I'm some way or discharged
him and got some one else. He had been
30 good and faithful that We never sus-
pected a thing
lie struck me first, and then It was
from one TO the other. back and forth.
He got US huddled together in the corner
and had US at his mercy We both did
our best TO defend ourselves. but We were
neither one very strong and he was ex-
ceellngiy quick and active.
he picked up first one club and then
another If We got one out OF his hands /
hdd never had az much 10 do with him as
my sister She had always been in au-
thOrity over him. had special charge of
nm, you know, and she couldn't believe
her senses.
Denies Treating Him Badly,
''She said: Why. joint YOU wouldn't do
that ! think I was conscious through il
al. don't know Whatever made me
think 10 offer him that SlO0 to go for the
doctor and the priest. II was a mystery
that he quit when he did. When he came
back down stairs, after going through the
mouse, my sister was still breathing, and
she modned out I'm almost gone
II es, yuse both Of you better say your
prayers now he said. and he took an
other stick Of wood TO finish killing me-
MISS Clarke was told of Berrys state
ment that they did not treat him righ;
ana that they had found fault with him
FOR entering with muddy boots and for
breaking the legs of chickens. She said:
on! l don't see how he could say We
didn't treat him right. We certainly did
everything TO make him comfortable. We
both thought so much of him. That
breaking Of the chickens legs was away
last summer. when We had young chick
ems. He caught them so roughly he brok,
their legs, and / told him not to be 50
rough with them. He readily stopped do
ing it and we heard nothing more about
it. He had not recently been cross and
had said nothing at any time Saturday to
Indicate that he was displeased.
MY head feels so bad inside but the
doctor says 1t IS humps Of cOagulatel
blood. that Will be absorbed"
A half dozen Of Miss Annie's teeth were
found to-day in the cracks OF the kitchen
moor where the struggle took place. Sre
spit them out, as she was afraid shz
would swallow them. They were broken
by one Of the blows.
Relatives Would Lynch Him.
There were d number of visitors at the
home to-day to see the body of Miss
Amanda. The sheet was pulled down and
the face shown. the head being bruised
principally on the left side. The hands,
broken in defending herself and her Sis
ter, were folded in a way to show as lit
tie of the breaks as possible. The funeral
will be held at White-Marsh Church to-
morrow morning.
A requiem high mass will be sung bv
Father Gardner, who administered con-
ISOLATION to the living victim as well as re-
ceived the confession of the murderer
The pall-beareTs will be Messrs. Thomas
Wells, Dennis Wells, and Duckett Wells.
cousins of the dead woman, and Messrs.
Joshua T. Clarke, Ernest l.. Clarke. and
James Clarke, her nephews. Interfneut
will be in White-Marsh Cemetery.
From ali the Indications around Bowie.
ii was a good thing Berry was taken out
of the county yesterday. Relatives of The
murdered woman openly sad they would
have lynched him
Berry in Jail at Baltimore
Baltimore, March 20-John Berry is in
the Jail here, and talked freely to re-
porters to-day. Berry Is Catholic and
asked IL at a priest be sent 10 him For
the present he is allowed as much free
dom as any other prisoner in the Jail.
but if a death watch is sent ne will. as
usual, be confined to his cell. He SAYS he
does not want TO be tried for murder in
Prince Georges County, and will ask 10
be tried in Baltimore. He fears that If
sent back TO the county in which the
murder occurred he will be lynched.