The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
Going to Home of Vic
tim, Thomas Repeats
Story.
duplicates Green in.
Crime, But Latter
Denies It.

UnneTed at sight of his victinn
on slab at the morgue, Charles
Thomas, a colored man, last night
confessed TO Central Office detec-4
tiyes that he was a party to the rid
night murder of William Kirby. att
492 K street southwest, early FRI
day morning.
The authorities place credence in
all Of Thomas confession except the.
statement that he stood watch at
the dining room door while William.
Green knitted the aged engineer TO.
death. Green Says there is no TRUTH
in this assertion, and TIE detectives
are convinced that Thomas dealt ths
life-taking blows.
A sighed statement was procured
from Thomas late last night by De-
tectives Parham, Weldon, O'Bnen,
BuTlingame, and Captain Mullhall,
Of the Fourth precinct station. This
probably viii he used as evidences
against him at his trial.
Stains Human Blood.
District Chemist Lynch stated
last night that he had examined the,
stains on Thomas hat. trousers. and
hands, and found them To be blood
from human being. Mr.. Lynch ext
pressed the opinion that the blood
stains were less than forty-eighbi
hours old.
After his confession Thomas and
Green were charged with the MUIR
der. Both viii be taken to the
mOrgue 10 attend the inquest to-
morrow morning. II is likely that
the charge of murder against Green,
viii be dropped, but he will be held
as a witness for the Government.
Negro Begins to Weaken.
Thomas first showed signs or
weakening yesterday afternoon af-.
ter he and Green had been near
cerated in the same cell for some
time. After evening roll call at De-
tective Headquarters, four of thal
shrewdest men in the Police De-.
partment started in to wrest from
the negro everything he knew aboub{
the crime.
They brought the negro from his,
cell in the Fourth precinct stationi
and placed him in a patrol wagon.
Thomas was i'll at ease and asked
where he was being
taken. He was given no reply.
Nearly Conapses at Morgue.
when the wagon stopped and he got3
IN front OF tho gray stone morsue, he5
almost collapsed. Thomas is sufferinez3
from an incurable silment, and his feet
are swollen to twice their normal pro-
portions. He walked unsteadiIy to thai
morgue door and his eyes looked AL
though they might bulge from thelss
sockets. Thomas, VINO is six feet thresi
inches tall and weighs about 225 poundss1
is a brutal. surly and vicious lookingl
negro, but his hideousness was in<!
creased when paralyzed with fear.
As the detectives were about to taxa
him to the slab room 10 view the bodys
of Kirby, he drew back in awe and
shouted.
Cries Out in Terror.
ooh, boss. don't take me back thereE
I'll come cleani IN tell de whole trufE
Green done TT Green cut dat mani'
His protests against seeing the body
OF the dead man were futile, and has
was forced to look upon the form ofs
the man which. IL IS believed, he kiued-'
Oats the man we followed" said
Thomas. Dem IS de cuts / saw Green
make on his neck"
Taken back TO tho Fourth preciucBI
station, Green sigred the fouowIngi
statement:
Confession He Signs.
''On Thursday night. Feoruary 70,
about fifteen or twenty minutes after
midnight, this man. an old white man.,
was in a saloon at Sixta and X streets
southwest. Green said - me This man