Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-15

no interest other than a llStleSS one IN the
proceedings. He bore several marks of the
usage he got yesterday. He sat with his
right hand in his overcoat pocket and his
left hand holding gray fedora hat, which
rested on his knee and didn't change this
attitude once during the hearing. until
Coroner Carr asked him If he had any
thing to say before the Jury. The man was
chewing tobacco industriously, and in reply
he mumbled.
1T was Gods will. The Father in Heaven
wil!ed it. That's enough. amt it?"
How do you know the Father in Heaven
willed it?" inquired the coroner.
He told me to go and do it, responded
Pallesen more clearly, having expectorated
copiously. Il begged Him not to make me
do it, because l loved my wife, but He said
go and do it, go and do it,
Had to Kill Four.
did He tell you to kill the other woman
and the little girl?"
He told me to kill four. 1 only got
three
who was the other?'
THE little fat fellow"
who is he?
George"
rs he your son?'
"Umph, humph." he acquiesced.
Did you ever hear any such voice be-
fore?''
NO. not till yesterday
Did you ever have any trouble with your
wife?"
NO: 1 loved my wife. never had trout
BILE with her
what were your relations with the other
woman
She was no relation of NINE" and here
Pallesen family smiled.
What was she doing at your house?'
She came there to see about some sew
ing"
was the child you killed her child?"
Yes"
Did your wife want you to take medi-
cine?"
eho tod 80 olya OH I,a-
cause / praying. She said l was too
good and that couldn't work when 1 was
so good. i didn't need any medicine. 1t
was the first time anybody ever said was
too good and here Paliesen spat copious-
ly and smiled again.
When asked what he worked at the man
replied he was painter.
This closed the hearing, and in the pres
ence of the jury Pallesen was taken back
into the morgue and confronted with the
body of the wife he had murdered. The
their staring glassiness without emotion.
Yes" he said. looking at the cold corpse,
that is my wife. l killed her"
The jury then proceeded r to dsaioe ri
few minutes. and declared THAT Josephine
Palleeen was stabbed with knife in the
back and aorta by Olaf Pallesen. her
husband, in front of house No III 24th
street northwest, at o'clock pm, March
IA, 1900, and that she died in a few min
utes of hemorrhage resulting from THIS
wound. We also find that Josephine Pal
Lessen was pregnant at the time of her
death, and that the said Olaf Pallesen Is
responsible for the death OF her unborn
child. We direct that the said Olaf Palle-
sen be held for the action Of the grand
jury
Pallesen was then taken to Jail In the
third precinct patrol wagon.
Pailesen was photographed this morn
ing and measured according to the Bertfllon
system. During the operations he kept up
a talk about having been told by the
Father in Heaven to kill four, and said
George was to be the fourth: He declared
also that George not his child
He was entirely rational on every other
subject and showed considerable intelli-
gence in conversing upon other topics.
Mrs. Hengensbnch Improving.
Inquiry at the Columbia Hospital this
afternoon elected the reply that Mrs. Hen
gensbach was somewhat better and resting
easily.
The Crime Committed.
The deed for which Palesen is held re-
sponsible was one of the most appalling in
criminal annals. The man, his wife and
their three children, the eldest six and the
youngest two years old, lived at No. 112l
oath street northwest occupying four rooms
on the lower floor. From all accounts Mrs.
Pallesen was engaged in the dining room.
which she also used sewing room. yes
terday afternoon, when her husband came
in, and. after quarreling with her, he struck
her with his fist. She ran out of the room
and out of the house into the small yard
in front of it, with her baby in her arms
and one of her little boys with her, when
Pallesen who had gone into the kitchen
and secured long bladed kitchen carving
knife, rushed after her. The unfortunate
woman shouted for help and endeavored to
open the gate leading out from the yard;
but her husband overlook her, and with
powerful strength plunged the knife in her
back, the long blade reaching her heart and
killing her instantly.
Mrs. Mary Hengensbach, the wife of Chas.
F. HengensbaCh a mail carrier, residing at
No. 2414 n street, was with Mrs. PaIlesen
when She was struck first in the dining
room, having gone to see her about some
sewing the latter was engaged on. Accom-
psnying Mrs. Hengensbach was her three
year-old daughter Julia. When Mrs. Pal
Lessen ran out into the yard. pursued by her
husband, Mrs. Hengenshach, with her little
girl, followed.
Woman Shrieked.
The woman shricked when the murderer
stabbed his wife, and as the latter fell for
ward on her face Pallesen turned upon
Mrs. Hengensbach and made a lunge at her
with the knife. She attempted to evade the
blow, when the point Of the knife struck
the little girl just beneath her right ear,
making a fatal wound. The anguished
mother caught up her dying darling and
started to run up oath street. The fiend
followed her with uplifted knife. and near
the corner Of l. street overlook and seized
her. Hurting her against lamp post, Pal
Lessen struck her with the weapon four
times, she still holding her child. Many
persons rushed to the woman's assistance.
Pallesen still held the woman by the right
hand with his left and in his right clutched
the knife dripping with blood DR.. r. w.
Wrenn ordered Pallesen to desist where
upon the murderer said the affair was none
of his business, and began stabbing his last
victim again DR.. Wrenn then struck Pal
Lessen in the head with a brick, which stag
gered him. The murderer was threatened