The Washington times., 1911-06-10
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| ZUUZ FOurIeenIH WiLc "dS
doing odd jobs as a servant
| Prior to tho separation, the woman
/ testified, her husband had frequently
| assaulted her and given her reason
to fear he would kill her. Her testi-
mony on this point, in reply to a ques-
ton as to why she shot Lomax, was
| as follows:
AIN self defense, because / was
afraid he was going to kill me. as he
| had made so many threats and had
assaulted me so many times.
Q.-How many times had he as
saulted you?
Ale had made desperate assaults
on me six or seven times.
GIN what way did he assault you?
With Razor and an Ak,
Ale assaulted me twice with a
razor, and did once with an ak
that he was cutting up my furniture
with
Q.-,Have you any marks on your
A.-oniy where he has knocked my
o.-How many teeth did he knock
out?
(The witness here showed the jury
where the teeth had been knocked
out.)
Q.-what did he knock your teeth
out with?
A.-His fist.
Q.-Was there any other assault,
besides Knocking your teeth out?
A.-Well, he assaulted me with an
ak once, but he had never, used any
an ice-pick. and made hole.
Q.-How many assaults has he made
on you that you can remember?
Ask or seven. That is. assaults
that l thought he was going to kill
OF course. he has heated me quietly.
Ole has what?
A.-The other assaults / was afraid
he was going to kill me He had
heated me quietly that l didn't count
1t to be much.
Arrested After Assault.
At this point the witness testified to
an assault committed June Is, 1905, that
ended in the arrest of her husband.
Neighbors and the police stopped the
assault. Counsel for the defendant Of
fered the Police Court record in evil
dence, showing Lomax had forfeited a
bond Of SO after being arrested at that
time on a charge of having assaulted
There doesn't seem to be any Question
that Lomax had frequently assaulted
his wife, and that she was justified in
fearing him. He was six feet tall and
weighed 200 pounds, and had heavy
muscles. She is small and frail The
Governments case, showever, hinged
largely on the fact that she went to
her husbands room and took her own
she went to kill him. and the jury so
concluded.
Her own story. told on the stand, was
that she and her husband had agreed !
to start life, over again, forget their
quarrels, and live together once more,
and that she went to his room to make
the final arrangements. In substance
her story was as follows:
Her husband was to come to her room
at l55l Fourth street in the afternoon II
he could get away, and they were to
gather up her belongings and go out |
and hnd a room, as she had to leave her |
room roo the next day because the woman
couldn't get home in the afternoon, but |
when she arrived in the evening found |
her husband had been there looking for |
her.
Reason for Having Pistol.
After supper she put her rings, |
bracelet, and her pistol in a handbag |
and went to 1928 Eighteenth street to see
him. it previously having been agreed |
they would pool their possessions, pawn |
them. and thereby get enough money to |
rent a room to live in. That was the
way she accounted for having the pistol |
the night Of the tragedy.
The woman who came to the door at |
1898 Eighteenth street told her Lomax |
although it developed he was there then. |
The wife went back to her old room, |
and about midnight went to the oyster |
house to meet her husband. Other en- |
ing, so she again went to the. house |
where he was rooming. This time she |
gave a whistle signal which they both |
used and he came out.
The witness said she and her hus-
band walked the streets until or 5
o'clock, discussing what they should |
do. and that they quarreled again over
money and over his assaults on her.
1t was a cold night, and Lomax urged
his wife to come to his room and get
warm. She did so.
Testimony About Staying.
There she put the rings, bracelet, and
pistol on the table. and they estimated
how much they could raise on them.
About o'clock her husband went to
bed and slept until 6, while she sat in
a rocking chair. At he awoke. and,
the woman said, made advances to her.
She said she told him she was seriously
i'll, but that he became abusive. The
womans testimony as to the assault
and shooting was as follows:
He made start toward me and
l jumped out OF my chair and ran
chair. He struck at me with the chair
When he struck at me, at my head, !
discovered he had struck the table and
over went the lamp. l heard the lamp
went to the floor. Then l said: BE
careful or else you will get shot Then
the next thing / discovered he had
clasped me in my throat. My cape was
too thick for him to do any injury to
my throat. I had the revolver in my
right hand. Then l cannot give an &C
count of nothing else that happened un-
til I found myself coming out from
underneath him. I discovered one Of
his legs across my back. can't re-
member anything else up to that time"
Testimony Substantiated.
Certain, parts of this story told by
Matte I.omax were suhstantiated by
other witnesses. 1t was established
that Lomax bad gone to her room in the
afternoon. as she said. 1t was also es-
tabIished that the man and woman had
had a scufAe in his room. Other per-
sons IT. the house were awakened by a
crash, which presumably was caused
9,hen the lamp was Knocked over. No
one saw Matte LomaX in the room, but
one witness testified that she heard a
woman's voice say, II told YOU I would
get you.
woman had shot her husband as he
lay asleep. yet his BODY was found
on the side Of the room opposite the
bed. He was shot twice in the neck
and the phvsiclan who performed the
ai,tonsv testiried that either shot was
necessarily instantly fatal Under his
hody Vas found the hand bag which the
S...o - +o.t;dad she had taken to his