The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-10-22
By william Clark. Of the firm Of Clark
& Given, dealers in wood and coal.
The Scene Of the Crime.

& Given, dealers in wood and coal.
The Scene Of the Crime.
Tho home is approached by a long
flight Of stone steps beside which was
a portieo extending the entire width .
the front room and G. 10 which two
windows. rising from be floor TO the
ceiling. open. These were the parlor .
The parlor was separated /
from the rear parlor by folding doors /
only Il was the rear room that Mrs /
Dennis used as her bedroom. The kiteh- /
en- and dining room were on the SANE /
floor and in back building. The base
ment was made use Of as dressing /
room for the seamstresses in the front
while the furnace room took up the rest
of the space
TIE front room on the floor above the
one occupied by Mrs. Dennis was used
as q worlroom- To The rear Of this AMI
Immediately over the one occupied BY
Mrs. Dennis was the room occupied by
James Thomas and Smith WinchelL
Passing into the back building the bath
room. the room occupied by Mr.. Hey
wood. and the room Of Mrs Dennis
mother-in-law were located
on the top floor the front room was
rented by N:r John Gross. a reporter for
one OF the press associations. The hall
room adjoining his had been occupied
By q Mir. Hurd but was vacant at the
time Of the assault upon the unfortu-
nate woman. Miss Mary Doyle rented
the only other room in the house. the
back building not extending above tbs
/ second floor. Miss Doyle's room was
over the one in which Mrs. Dennis slept
/ and connected with it by a hot-air reg
ister which was usually open
Mrs. Dennis employed twenty-s'N
steamstresses. but Richard Cole, the
colored porter. who attended to nearly
all of Mrs. Dennis confidential business,
and Mary Price, the general house
worker, completed her household
Highly Esteemed
Mrs. Dennis had long been held in the
highest esteem by her many customers,
amo-g when we're numbered some Of
the most prominent ladies in the city,
She was upright in her dealings and was
never known to have an enemy. She
was a woman whose habits were said
10 be exemplary.
The night before the tragedy she re-
tired about O'Clock. The doors be
tween her room and the front paFloI
were open. and in the doorway and part
lily closing it stood a light screen. Al
or the entrances to the two rooms are
said to have been locked and the gas II
the sleeping room turned leey when she
retired Nothing extraordinary attract
ed the attention Of the other residents
, of the building during the greater par
of the night Mr. Gross returned from
work about 4 O'Clock in the morning, an
or passing into the building noticed Oh
heard nothing unusual Miss Doyl
J heard his key in the door and heard hin
{ ascend the stairs 10 his room. She va
: unable 10 go to sleep again and tosse-
< and pitched on her pillow So
Probably an hour had elapsed wi1el
I she heard groans- At first she paid lit
tile attention to them. but as they. scenes
to come from the register II her room
she listened and thought that she hear
. her name called. Tracing the sound, sh
4 found herself standing before the doc
5 TO Mrs Dennis room. She called 70
admittance. but the only reply was Il
continued moaning. Hurrying upstairs
n she called Mr. WineheII, who accompa
r MED her downstairs and broke in tn
d door The light which usually burne
r there was out and all was darkness. Nj
e WincheH returned to his room for
.e match, with which the gas was 1T.
lei Unconscious When Found
Ie The sight revealed was startling in til
u extreme. Lying as though asleep. wit
the bedclothes covered with the bloc
II which was gushing from many injurit
e On her head. lay Mrs. Dennis sma
Is pool Of blood was found 10 the left
81 the bed and there was every indicatio
that she had been attacked in her slice
slight defect of hearing adding to II
is ease with which the crime might ha7
N been accomplished.
5 In an open drawer beside the bed Ia
ar her pistol, which had not been touche
OF In a cigar box on a table al the fot
" Of the bed was her pocketbook contain
ne ing about $50, beside about IS IN cbanl
m lying loose in the box. The diamond
lg and other jewels upon her fingers al
re concealed about the bed had not bee
I'D moIested, and there were other indicl
y tions that the work was not that Of
an thief
The Surgeons Arrive,
ST Physicians We're sent for. and Z
OF Wade H. Atkinson was on the scene
L an increditabIy short space Of tim
nc Seeing the serious nature Of the ca
m he sent for another physician who liy
er on New Hampshire Avenue. bat IN
1t gentleman refused 10 leave his war
81 bed. T,r Hooe was then called, al
II brought with him the instruments IN
- the doctors would want immediatel
. The wounds we're temporarily dresse
- and every effort made 70 revive L
. patient without effect.
The Police Notified.
It was fully O'Clock before I