The Washington times., 1922-08-22
HUSBAND RAIDS
own HOME, HIT
+. WITH ICE PICK
Duel" Follows Entry Through
Window-Wife and Clerk
Accused.

Practicing the methods of O
wall-scaling sleuth early today
nearly cost Roy Walston, of 1928
Twelfth street northwest, his life.
He sought entry into fat 43,
which he calls his home, and
where, he alleges, another man
was in company with his wife.
After going up a fire escape four
stories, Walston found q window
locked, plunged his left arm
through It, and severed the wrist
arteries. =
Only a Barney oldfield run by
the police headquarters wagon"
got him to Emergency Hospital
in time for a tourniquet to be of
any use.
Duel With Ice-Picix.
Walston's cuts were not the only
casualties. however. He and Fred.
erick Dobson Reynolds, said to live
regularly Al $500 Fourteenth street
northwest, engaged, according to the
police, in a spirIIed duel with an ice
pick in which both received super
tIcial wounds.
As b result, Reynolds, who Is
thirty-flve years old and a clerk, was
locked up at The FIRST precinct sta.
ton charged with assault with u
dangerous weapon. but this morning
was released on furnishing $1,000
bonds. ....
The woman in the case, Mrs. Helen
Walston, Is held for investigation at
the House of Detention. She Is thirty
one.
The perplexities Of the police as to
just who started the fight which
ensued on Walston's bloody and
dramatic entry into the flat are In.
creased by conflicting statements by
the three paroles 10 The affair.
Walston says IT'S his flat.
Mrs. Walston says iI's her fiat.
Reynolds says he recently sublet II
from the pair. and showed a rent re-
ceipt for $50, covering the period
from August 15 to Sep .ember ! as
proof. "N'
Twas half after midnight at the
Alamo, the apartment house in ques-
tion. when sounds indicating a sur.
vival OF the filtest commenced to
alright the, ears OF other suite.
holders.
One of the first to hear them was
c. w. Musenheimer. private OF the
Second precinct. who had come off
duty but a short time before.
He called headquarters and
Emergency. and machines were soon
n the way.
The central bureau car, with
'hauffeur Robey at the wheel and
Detective Sergeants O'Brien and
livingston in the tonneau. came
lear going straight through the
yillard," according to OBrien,
hen a careless autoist disputed the
light OF way at Fourteenth street
nd Pennsylvania avenue.
The first care Of the detectives on
arrival was to get Walston to the
hospital. which they accomplished
lust In time to save his life. He was
reported resting easy today.
The whole truth in the matter
probably will not come out until the
court room stage Is reached. because
Of the contradictory asseverations
Of the Walstons and Reynolds as 10
present proprietorship OF the flat.
One thing seems settled, however,
which is that Mr.. and Mrs. Walston
had been separated about two
weeks. They both admit frequent
marital difficulties.
A Chilled Dagger.
Reynolds story is that he was in
a rear room when the crash Of glass
came from a side window opening
on the fire escape and court.
He found Walston lying on a bed
when he went up front, and says the
latter leaped at him with an ice pick
when he entered.
That the police place the onus for
starting the scrap on Reynolds,
however, is shown by the fact that
he is charged with assault on wals-
toms complaint and the latter has
not been booked otherwise than to
have his name entered on the head.
quarters blotter, with that Of Mrs.
Walston.
The wife maintains she had no
company in the flat when the hus-
band smashed through the window.
Reynolds was treated for a stab
wound In the chest before being
lodged at No. and procuring his