Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-29
The Detccsiyc scandal.
THE PRELIMINARY INvEsTIGATIoN-wHAT THE DE
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| officers cont lined In communications from Mr..
john ". Thomson, CHARM IN OF the citizens
coniatiee to tic District Commissioners. was be-
grn II District Commissloncr West ats O'Clock
| yesterday afternoon The Investigation was pri-
/ vaie. The cssc taken u WIS that outlined In
"IeIorandnn No l." furnished by the chairman
OF tie CT Ems committee. II had reference to the
| operations OF the detectives, Gnl esp clally De-
| tectiye McDev,tt, in relation to five professional
foigers arrested Tor victimiZilg Rigg,' bank, in
O.: ODER. 1879, by forging checks in the name of
| VIZ. Jrnn a. "a CRU Ter Tie chirg, against the
! Diet tt.v,-. sustai ned by tn eStm9ny of Mr..
| i'li,in ?. " oil and others is that af,er
| tAc Arrest OF the men, wien they " re
taten 10 the Pciice Co.rt. they were ALLOW e,l
! to so, thr u II the Co1nty me- o. the etec-
tiveS Mr. hcoa says that the lie lder OF the gang,
| Known as Htaro', or RrCckway. applied to him
| after E.s arrest 10 secure his release. Wood
| therefore statet the pr;c, ne would ask for hi,
/ through the detectives. Wood th2n biTgainad
WITH Monroe to let HIM woo y Enow every ST. he
| to thu eft C: that after Monroe was released he
met Private Detective Flinders at the st. james
hotel ana paid him SEQ Flinders gave the III )ney
to McDeviit.who was waiting outside. THIS state
ment i! Substantially the story told by Mr.. Wood.
i The witnesses examined yesterday were Mr.. Ma
gruder, Mr.: Wood, Mr.. Lloyd prather tWooi's
teller OF RIGGS bank), and Cart Vernon and Lieut..
| Erklon. OF the police force. Prather. who is EN-.
iloyed by Wood clerk, 1t is understood. testified
| that he had made memorandum record Of the Mon
roe transaction and that Detective McEres h know
|
strJy it.
! WHAT MDEvITT SAYS.
Detective McDevitt complained to STAR re-
porter last evening that he was not betn, treated
! justly. 1T IS sad that am trial." said the
detective, "hut am not allowed to be present As
| to the Magruder case 1 worked hard night and
| day 10 make those arrests, and took the men to
/ In" Police Court. There asked Mr.. Magruder to
tel his own story. He did So and the prosecuting
| attorney ted him h had no ease. That doesn't
| lock as though let the men go, does it? Mr..
Magruder knows the truth of this NATTER
~ ought fer you fellows today" said Mr.. Film
| Gers, who was standing near to the reporter. 81
| ratuiei TO tsStfy unless the investigation was
open. and Mr. West threatened to have me arrest
| Ell L Wnted TO have the req ortcrS present be-
cause wanted the thing reported correctly
"Why,r Sill Mr. Med VIII, giving the reporter
on emphatic thump In the Oh st WITH The head OF
MS loa:ed cane, this man Indicating FlinGers)
viii tel you that he has come to lne AMI said
a., dui eqna get any amount Of money from the
have refused. Isn't that 500"
:" That's So" said Flinders.
FLINDERS STORY.
Mr.. Flinders stated to STAR reporter that he
did receive money from Monroe or Erockwly, Tut
not for the detectives. He was acting as Monroc's
counsel Wood had offered to get him out for a
SUN OF money. and he (Fitnders) had told Monroe
that there was no reason Tor paying Wood so
much money. ana Monroe did not pay It, Wood
was sore about this.
ELECTIONS OF OFFlcERs.-Harmony Lodge, No
81. X. Of F., has elected the following Officers P
c., r. w. Sanders: c. c., w. F. Bowen; " c.,
Daniel E. Cahill: NJ. OF E., JAS. X. Garner; NJ OF
Jacob on; K of H. ana s.. JAS. H. Lewis; NJ. at A.,
Z. Price. Representatives. to the grand lodge:
David Gregg, John T. Hutchinson, Jas. K Gar
ner, VIM. Otto and Jas. Z. Mitchell
section g. Endowment Rank OF the Knights OF
Pythias, has elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: j. c. Wilson. presidents Aug. s.
Boern stein, vice president; Halvor Nelson, secra-
tary and treasurer; James K. Watt, chaplain: G.
i Tnd L. FoSwsll guide; Henry Eo9;ing, guard
bernstein, he iical eXlminer and Thomas Sum-
merscales, VIM. II. Hines and James X. Watt
| trustees The installation or the newly elected
officers viii take place January 18th, 1883
friendship Lodge No. Z, l. o. NJ. has elected the
following Officers for the ensuing term: S.M., Geo.
r. s, Medll Connel; 7. s., J. w. Carter: Treas,
:; S NJ Reh3rd5; Chap j. F. Hau9r, IT,: Con, W.
W. :. Seymour, f. X. Plant.
AUTHORS CARNIVAL AT SPEScERIAN COLLEGE,
Each ticket TO the authors carniv Il tonight at the
! Spencpran Business College halls and parlors Will
b cnitl d to a vote on Andrews, superb portrait
/ OF James A. Garfield. The votes for the cant-
| dates nominated in the TOtunda or the CapitOl
/ row stand: Gen. G. d. SWAIN, "a; Col. H. C. Cor
/ bin, "a; Prof. H. c. Spencer, 81: Hon. James G..
Blaine. %; Hon John a. Logan, 12; Mrs. Lucretia
| X. Garfield. $; Mrs. Sara A. Spencer, So; Corcoran
Art Gallery, 2-total, 2Is.
/ THE WoMANs LEAGUE-"We exnectedn said
Mrs. Smith last night before the WOman's Labor
| League Was called to order ''to have two Hubbel
men here tonight They were going 10 scalp
| me-" The STAR reporter expressed the hope that
her hair was pinned on tight, and Mrs. Smith in
dignantly repelled the inslnuaton, though she ad-
mrted that her bangs would not stand q very Sc
we're strain. When the meeting was opened a
series OF resolutions were adopted, demanding
that two OF the nine physicians to the poor should
| be female physicians; and that at least two ma
irons be appointed to attend police stations to
| look after the interests OF unfortunate women
street were not always intoxicated, when the DO
Ice Thought they were. She mentioned an In
| stance where woman suffering with vertigo was
| arrested and io"ked up as drunken woman, and
died In station house. Mrs. Smith said that she
was led to believe that intemperance, and the
habit OF opium eating was spreading among wO-
| men OF fashionable circles. A paper was read by
/ the secretary, declaring that an article In a
western paper derogatory to Mrs Smith and the
league was falSehoOd, and that In the belief Of
| the league 1t the work OF certain women
VINO were employed as scavengers to the Hon.
Jay Hubbell. in his Senatorial contest, and who
| reaorted to dscreditable means to crafty their
! lealouSies aroused 10y the laudable works OF the
/ immaculate league.
| MARRIAGE LICENsEs.-The clerk OF the court has
/ issued marriage licenses to John T. Hayden and
Mary E Lyons. both OF Alexandria Va; Joseph
Albert G. Miller, OF Montgomery county, Pa. an /
Aoilfe Denham. OF Fauquier county, Va; William
! f. kilwell and Maggie Mckinley: JAS A. Archer
| and Elizabeth R Lunsford; Basil z. Galloway. OF
BladenS burg, Md. and Alice c. Reed, of Hyatts-
| vile. Nd; Benjamin ". Ress and Josephine A.
| Van Syckel OF Trenton, n. j.. Robert Hawkins
and Mary Burnes, both OF Prince Georges county,
Nd; Charles NOodrOe and Melinda Mason: c. H.
Cohen, OF AUGUSTA, Ga, and y. V. Sneed; Charles
H. Cant and Matte j. Ward; J. NJ. Gettinger and
VI. j. Mckinney.
SToNEwALL JACkSoN'S LAST WOEDs-The last
words OF StoneWau Jackson were: Lets cross
over the river ard rest In the shade OF the trees
These words have been quoted by more than
million persons in every Cline on earth, and yet
on every boys tongue in the District OF Columbia
are to be heard the words that will be remen-
bered IS long as these OF the great warrior: "ets
go TO b. Robinson CO.'S, 800 Pennsylvania avenue
and get new suit OF Clothes"
Affairs I'm West Washington.
REAL ESTATE SALEs.-Thomas Bowling, auc-
toneer, sold Wednesday afternoon, for Messrs.
William ID. CaSSin and William A. Gordon. trus-
tees, part OF lot numbered 63, In old Georgetown
fronting 80 feet on the west side OF Jefferson street.
between Water street and the canal by 125 feet in
| depth. improved by a two-StOry brick and two
story frame house. both to Mr.. James O. Kuhn, for
1870. Charles C. DuncansOn sold yesterday
afternoon, for SuSannah A. Crandell and William