Evening star., 1949-04-04
Girl,
With Murder in
Stabbing Of Man
Womon Reported
Recovering From
SeIf-lnfIicted Wound

4 sgAhalag that eIlrAXea s~v~
eral hours os sackeFtas In = tAv-
ern here ard q CAymoSsy Hula
Md BUNGALOW resulted IN a nuF-
der charge placed ey poller to-
day against q is-yeAF old giTt for
tie death Of . As wear old man
with whom she had ecen Twins
Mrs, Dorothy ReSiden, Tals p
street. Carmody Hills ~aa .a
satisfactory condition at Prince
OeoEgvS County Hospital reeov-
ertng from = self lnFslcted wound
in her ieft breast, She y under
police guard there on the murder
charge
Ellsworth Emery Turner wha
wAs SAID by his mother, Mrs Aeasa
Ford. TO have brought MrS, Red
den 10 the Cafmo<ty Hills houSe
srSeral weeks Ago and introduced
her as hts wife died AlmoA In.
Stantly Of = stab wound said hv
police 10 have been Inflicted nv
Mrs. Redden early yesterday aI
the BUNGALOW
The couple started arguing late
Saturday night At q tavern near
Twelfth and II streets NE. ac.
eordlng 10 MRS Ford who Was
with them They continued
drinking and nghting when they
got home Mrs, Ford declared.
Witnessed b, Sen In Law.
The staobing. police were in
formed. Was witnessed hy Mira
Fords son -tn-lAw. CLAUDE II.
johnson, and by couple known
TO Mrs, Ford only as sue and
Charlie
| Police said Mr. johnson told
them he had been awakened by
shouting and went into the room
In time 10 see Mira, Redden stab
| Turner with a seven inch butcher
knife. Mrs, Ford. meanwhile, had
gone out for n walk 10 avoid the
arguing but returned a few min.
uteS after the stabbing. she said
| The other couple was not In
the house when police arrived.
Police said. however, they know
their identity.
Detective Pvt, Wilson J Purdy
/ said the formal charge Of murder
was signed by Pvt. Horace King,
( fifst member Of the county police
10 arrive AT the house.
To BE Taken 10 Jail.
When Mrs. Reddcn leaves The
hospital she will be taken 10
Marlboro jail. Detective Purdy
said. A preliminary hearing has
been set tentatively for Friday In
Upper Marlboro Police Court
Detectives Purdy said Mira.
Redden told him ahe had been
trying 10 persuade Turner 20 stop
drinking. Others informed him.
he said. that the stAbbinR ended
a series OF arguments Saturday
niaht and early yesterday.
He reported that he had eues.
toned the other man and woman
In the bungalow at the time Of
the stabbtns and received SUBJ
stantially the same accounts
given by Mr.. johnson and Mia.
Ford.
DR.. James I. Boyd. county med
ical examiner. issued u certificate
OF homicide. Physicians al the
hospital said Mrs. Reddens wound
was less serious than originally
thought, She might be well enough
70 leave the hospital late today,
they added.
Turner Was Tree surgeon.
Turner WAS the last OF seyen
children Of Mrs. Ford and Law
renee 4. Turner who died In 1898.
His most recent job was as a tree
surgeon in Takoma Park He waA
to have taken another Job
Wednesday. his mother said
For several years he lived with
an aunt. Mrs. Nell Keeny. In Ta-
koma Park. He had never mar
ried.
The funeral will be held at 2 30
pm. tomorrow from the chambcrs
funeral home In Riverdale Burial
will be In George Washington
Memorial Cemetery. Rigs road.
/ Mrs. Redden was a clerk al q
wholesale drug company ware
house here. Mrs. Ford said that
when her son brought Mira Red
den 10 the Carmody Hills house
he introduced her as the former
Miss Dorothy Hunt. They had q
room In the house since that time.
/ Mrs. Redden. police we're In
formed. Is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Hunt Of Capitol
Heights She was married but
police were checking = report that
the marriage recently waa an
ntaiied