Evening star., 1923-01-18
WOMAN GIVES BAIL
!. IN SHOOTING CASE
Mrs. Elizabeth Conde Will
Appear Before Grand Jury
in Ehrmantraut Death.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. January IS
After hearing the testimony of five
witnesses regarding the fatal shoot
ing of Bernard \. Ehrmantraut Of
S12 10th street southeast. Washing
ton, ID. G., coroner's jury. which
met yesterday afternoon at Wheat
ley's mortuary chapel, gave a verdict
as follows:
That Bernard Ehrmantraut came to
his death from the effects of a gun
shot wound in the left hip on De-
cember 81, between 4 and 5 pm, at
S1J Oronoco street, Alexandria, Va,
by some one unknown to the jury, and
died January 16, 1928. at Providence
Hospital, Washington, d. c., due to
blood poison, caused by his wound"
Tho hearing was a double-b -barreled
affair. Coroner T. MARSHALL Jones pre-
siding and Police Justice Frederick
C.. puvall sitting with him. The bond
of Mrs Elizabeth Condc. at whose
home the shooting took place. was
fixed at $4,000 She furnished the re
quired bond today and was released
fTom custody for her appearance be
fore The nest grand jury.
At the inquest Mrs. C"ndc was rep
resented by Attorney W. =. Snow and
the state was represented by Com
lnonwealth's Attorney William p.
WoollS.
Story OF Shooting.
Mrs. Condo. on the advice or her at
torney, did not take the witness stand.
However, after the public inquest was
disposed of several members OF the
Jury requested her attorney TO have
her appeal which she consented to
do, and Mrs. Conde, it was afterward
stated told of a visit to her home
the afternoon of December 81, by
Fhrmantraut, and of her telling him
of the proposed reconciliation with
her appear which she consented to
coming to her room and after short
conversation with her pulling piS-
tol from the bureau drawer that be-
Ionped to her husband and firing one
shot into the wall. A struggle for the
weapon followed. and it was then
that the pistol was discharged, the
bullet entering the hip OF Ehrmah-
traut.
Detective Sergt L. J. Kelly of
Washington told of being assigned TO
the case Tuesday and afterward com
ing TO Alexandria and, with Chief
Goods, getting statement from Mrs
Conde regarding the affair, when
was substantially what she IS SAID TO
have told the jury behind closed
doors. Detective Kelly also told the
Iury Of an interview he had with Mrs.
Hichew Of Washington, who told
him that Ehrmantraut had told her
at Providence Hospital. that lie was
shot by a woman in d house on OrO-
nuc0 street. in Alexandria. At first.
witness said, Ehrmantraut told Mrs.
Hichew that he was shot by a negro
in Washington. Detective Kelly said
that he had obtained paper alleged
TO have been sworn to by the dead
man, in which he is alleged to have
accused the woman of shooting him.
According 10 the detective Mrs. Condo
told him that she had known the
deceased for the past three years and
that ne had broken up her home in
Wasi ngton and gotten from her
$500 OF $1,000 that was bequeathed
to her by her mother, and, in addition,
had obtained diamond rings and a
watch. Mrs. Conde said Ehrlnantraut
pawned them, saying he expected to
obtain employment in Baltimore.
Mrs. Condc, witness stated, said at
the time tIhrmantraut come to her
house she was ill in bed. Mrs. Conde
he also SAID. told Of the struggle for
the pistol after Ehrmantraut pulled it
out and fired.
Chauffeur Testifes.
Lee Outlaw, a colored taxi driver
of Washington, testified to bring
ing Ehrmantraut to this city from
Washington the afternoon OF Decem-
Der 81 and to carrying HIM to a
house at SIS OronoCo street, and to
Ehrmantraut going in the back way.
lie drove back to Washington, and re-