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Show ACCUSED OF KILLING HER HUSBAND WITH AN AX LKXINQTON. Ky., Jan. 9. Murdered In his sleep, Richard Washington, a hostler at the Mansfield stock farm, was found today with his head split open h an ax. His wife is under arrest ar-rest charged with the crime. The police rode to the Mansfield place today in response to a telephone message mes-sage from Washington's wife, saying her husband had been killed. A bloody ax and a dress belonging to the Washington Wash-ington woman, stained with blood and having the appearance of having been washed, were found concealed. She says two white men entered the house last night, each having a club and beat Washington into insensibility. The detectives have questioned her relentlessly re-lentlessly all day. but she adheres to her story of the killing. |