The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-16

cell at the District Jail IS now oc-
cupied by Olof Pallessen. He was placed
there yesterday afternoon, after jury of
inquest, over which Coroner carr presided,
had declared him responsible for the death
of his WIFE Josephine Pallessen, thirty
two years CT age, in front of his home,
1l21 Twenty fourth Street northwest,
Wednesday afternoon.
The remains of his wife were removed
last night from the morgue TO the home
of relatives, where they were prepared
for burial. Arrangements for the funeral
have not been completed.
Reports from the Columbia Hospital.
where Mrs. Mary Hengesbach, the third
victim OF Pallessens knife, is lying with
seven serious stab wounds. are slightly
encouraging. She has chance to re
cover.
II was II o'clock yesterday morning
when six men were sworn by Coroner
Carr to investigate and judge as TO the
cause of death in the case of Josephine
Pallessen. The inquest was convened at
the Sixth precinct station. on New Jersey
Avenue northwest. where. late the pre-
vious night, Deputy Coroner Giazebaook
had performed an autopsy on the remains
OF the dead woman.
The members of the jury were j. F.
Ritter Daniel Hamilton. Frederick We'll,
George o. Miller, John Schlotterbach, and
John II. Justice.
Deputy Coroner Glazebrook who per-
formed the autopsy on the body of Mrs.
Pallessen, was the first witness examined
He found in the subject of the inquest 4
strong, healthy woman. She was attired in
the ordinary garments of women and wore
small cape about her shoulders. There
were three cuts in the cape. In the waist
were two cuts while only one was visible
in the chemise. There was no cut visible
in the corset. In the back of the body at
the shoulder was an incsion about an inch
and one-half in length, the wound gaped
for half an inch.
Death said DR.. Glazebrook, was due to
this wound. In addition, DR.. Glazebrook
stated to the jury that Mrs. Pallessen
would shortly have become the mother
Of male child.
U. NJ. Monroe, whose home is at 2115
Street northwest, testified that be and
his little grandson were passing the Pal
lessen home, when he observed a man
striking woman wLo was holding a child
in her arms. The woman fell in the yard
in front of the house. The child dropped
beside her. At that instant second won;-
an holding a child in her arms rushed
down the steps from the house into the
yard. through the gate, and ran down
Twenty-fcurth Street toward L Street. The
man followed and struck the woman sew
erai times. When she was about midway
between the Pallessen home and L Street
she dropped the child. Mr.. Monroe thought
the child was unframed. The man with
the knife followed the woman to the
corner and there stabbed her several tines
At this point Mr.. Monroe was asked if
he could identify either of the women He
replied that he could, and was then escort
ed to the morgue where he viewed the
body of Mrs. Pallessen. When he returned
to the jury room Mr. Monroe said:
THE body / have Just seen is that of
the woman who first came out of the
house"
Mr.. Monroe then identified the knife in
evidence as that used by Psilessen. whom
he also identified Mr.. Monroe was then
excused.
Robert L. wreun. the druggist at the
corner of Twenty-fourth Street and Penn
sylvania Avenue, who assaulted Pallessen
with a brick. was next examined. His at
tention was called tc man and woman
at the corne.' of Twenty-fourth
and L Streets. The woman was screaming
and several men were standing by offering
no assistance. DR.. Wrenn called his clerk,
S. A. Wolfe, and together they attacked
Pallessen. DR.. Wrenn did not see knife
until he was close upon the man welding
II. He then grabbed Pallessen by the arm
and defied him to again strike the woman,
threatening TO throw brick. Palessen
remarked:
You dare me to do it? Well. here
goes"
At that Pallessen stabbed Mrs Henges-
bach three times, and DR.. Wrenn struck
him with a brick.
Matthew d. Mahany, a clerk in the
Weather Bureau, whose home is at 2213
l. Street northwest, saw the attack on
Mrs. Hengesbach. at the corner of Twenty
fourth and L Streets. He did not see the
attacks on the others.
II. F. Lyons, also a clerk at the Wealth
er Bureau. and who lives at 81 Eleventh
Street southeast corroborated in the main
the statements of DR.. Wrenn and Mahany
as to the stabbing of Mrs. Henges bach
Nellie Freeman,- colored, was walking en-
the west side of Twenty fourth Street,
when her attention was attracted to =
group of people in the yard at the Palles-
sen home. She saw a man and two women,
one Of whom had child in her arms An
other child was standing by the side OF
the man. That child said:
"oh, papa, don't hurt mamma"
Here the Freeman woman identified Pal
lessen as the man whom she saw in the
yard. In answer 10 a question she wa.
positive there was no one except herself
in the street. When the child spoke to
Pallessen he bounded toward the woman
and stabbed her with a long knife She
fell TO the ground and the child ran into
the house. Pallessen stopped over thc