The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-06
VERDICT AGAINST TAYLOR
The Washingt0nian Held by q Bal
tim0Fe COrOners Jury.
Charged with Killing His Step
mOther-'The Evidence OverwheIm-
tng-The Prisoner Raves in His
CelI-NO Services Over His Victim

Celi-NO Services Over His Victim
BALTIMORE, March civilian Glenn
Taylor, was charged by a coroner's jury
last night with killing his stepmother,
Mrs. Marion Porter Scott Taylor, Sunday
night, at IA North Calvert Street The
verdict was:
We find that the deceased came to her
death from pistol-shot wound inflicted
by William Glenn Taylor
No time was lost in agreeing upon the
verdict, the evidence being overwhelming
against Taylor. During the inquest and
after 1t Taylor could be heard ravIng in
his cell.
I am accused Of a crinei Give me a
word for my life! That isn't rightr' These
and similar expressions he used, shrieking.
them out In manner that made those
who heard them shudder. His clamor for
the right TO say a word for his life was
caused by the fact that his attorney
Thomas J. Mason, refused to allow him TO
go upon the stand because of his highly
nervous condition In the cell his mother
and sister VainIy tried to comfort the half
crazed man as he paced back and forth,
pausing at intervals TO shake the iron bars
which cut him off from freedom.
Coroner Saunders presided at the in
quest and Assistant States Attorney Up
shur aided in questioning the witnesses.
Dr- N G. Keirle, pOst-mOrtem physician,
said that he found that the bullet entered
Mrs. TayI0r's head about one inch above
the left ear, and tearing its way through
the brain, was stopped by the right side of
the skull. which it fractured on the inside.
but did not perfOrate- The bullet was a
IS ealibre. There was only one wound,
said the doctor. although he examined
carefully because he was told that two
shots had been fired. The wound was nee
essarily fatal
Mrs T. Arthur Scott. Mrs. TavIor-s
daughter-in-law, said Taylor went to her
room, asked his s,epmother where his ia
Their was and when she said she did not
know insisted that she did Mrs. Tay-
Tor replied by calling him liar where
upon she heard two pistol shots, which
were aimed at Mrs Taylor and third
aimed at Mr. Scott. She said she grabbed
her baby and ran out, crying to the pr1s-
oner that he had killed her husband As
the prisoner ran down stairs, she said, he
cried; Let me go l am going TO be
hung! She said that the men had a few
drinks before the murder, but the women
had not been drinking
MI Scott testified that he was sitting
by the window when the shooting occur
red He thought third shot was fred
because he told Taylor that he had killed
his (Scott's)- mother About three wears
ago, he said, Taylor beat Mrs Taylor So
severely IN Washington that q veil had 10
be borrowed to hide the condition of her
race as she was taken home.
Charles a. Hengemihle, a brother of
Mrs. Scott said he was in the room and
say Taylor fire two shots al Mrs. TAYLOR.
the distance from the end of the pistol
to her head being not more than q few
lcnSs- AS Taylor ran downstairs he ex-
Claimed am going to swing; l don't
care who / kill
Jacob Goldman the man who sold tTav-
loF the pistol Sunday afternoon, testified
to making the sale. He described Taylor
as q man not too tall and dressed like
a gentleman Beyond this no other de-
scrlption could be obtained He said Tav-
Tor was in his right senses and gave as
his reason for being sure of this that Tav-
Tor had beaten him down on the price of
the revolver from soc TO S1-75. and even
"ent so far as TO try to get il for S25
sergeant Schultz and Detective SeibOId
Ever since he has been under arrest
Taylor has been in a highly nervous CON
ditEon, suffering the physical rs saw. from,
alcoholism W hen he was taken 10 de-
tcctIve- headquarters to be photographed
ara measured according 10 the Bertillon
s. stem he shrieked and moaned, and
while III the cell tore off nearly all his
clothing. His wife, eIeven-yea r-oId son
and his mother came over from Washing
ton ana spent nearly all the afternoon at
his cell The meeting was an affecting
one.
JdcOD NEoluiidhs VINO sold him the DiS-
tot with which the shooting was done
was arrested yesterday by Sergeant
Schultz and was released by Justice
Fechtig on $500 bail for court for selling
goods on Sunday.
The victim of the tragedy vas taken
from the norgue yesterday afternoon and
buried in LOudOn Park Cemetery. There
were no religious services. not a word OF
prayer, no minister and no palfbearers
the body being simply taken to the Gene
terry, deposited IN the grave which had
been made ready for it and covered with
earth.
Graham L. Walker, the undertaken who
had been instructed to arrange for the
burial, put the body in a neat coffin al
the morstie. and three carriages, contain
ing Charles n. Taylor, husband of the
dead woman; her son, Arthur Scott and
his wife and a few others went to the
morgue from the house where the crime
occurred AS soon as they arrived the
body was brought out and put in the
hedrse and the start vas made for the
cemetery.