Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-18
THE SPINNING JENNY CONrRO.
VERSY.

THE SPINNING JENNY CoNrRo.
| vERSY.
| Reply OF COmmissioner Edmonds 70
Attorney COrkhill's Letter.
President Eimonds, OF the Board OF District
Commissioners, sent to-day the following answer
to District Attorney Corkhils letter, published In
THE STAR OF Saturday:
SIR: Your letter OF the 18th instant Is received
You say you do not recognizs our right TO demand
any explanation Of your Official conduct You and
the police are concurring instruments to enforce
law In this District and from the dependent func-
tions Of each there arises the necessity for mutual
| intercourse and occasional explanations, which
| vice.
In this case the police arrested, ana you, the
to eSpan wod 70 be as
ana reiasss aass reason sS sSe4sor
narration OF the facts diners s from that that
ing OF the statutes does from ours In either view
it would seem that military company OF influ-
ential citizens have marched, with flying colors.
prosecutor with them. ami have received only the
scratch OF nominal fine. thus bringing the
Teptoacn tnat law ana penalty are only for the
In In explanation we are told, despite our written
pIoCeSt III tDat you not know we wished
prosecution. 1t seems not to have occurred to you
| that the arrests were made and the cases placed
ycIr charge for gEosesntlon but only for dis
oe Violated for religious, charitable or military
purposes That idea was suggested by the Nor
the courtn that case was, as it would be In this
that the statute makes no exec eptlon.
Applying your rule to the statute against lotte-
rleS there could be no conviction for they pro-
! fessedly all for charity. They SO advertise
III. IN our judgment community had better dispense
tions to law and organized violators OF 1t; and
charity at the expense OF crime is too costly.
can have ucS nn'
Pray, when will you have decision II you per-
sist IN dismissfng the cases?
Ing to enforce law and preferable TO the ipse dr
| OF an Official who reaXes or contracts HIS grasp
accordsng TO the standing OF the alleged offenders
But you urge you have discretion to prosecute
or not
Your discretion in prosecution like that OF a Do
that there is probable case; hut When the crime
is evident, discretion in both cases ceases and ac-
You urge again, that the police allowed this
gamnnng gam device to be used for several nights be-
This his sugsession o Means If It means ANYTHING
| @ that when Il the police perform their duty slowly
you are at liberty to neglect yours altogether
oa nais Is excellent for the criminals, but not for
You also urge that the court placed but nom.
ns 1n aos 5anS sa% guilty Of
eepted It presumably with our consent By the
same logic 1t Is presumably with our consent that
both inferences are wholly unwarranted as is the
other, that because the court fined too little for
This logic, carried step further, would extend to
the police, and stop arrests altogether We in
tend there shall be no doubt about our purpose to
see the laws enforced SO far as lies In our power and
trust we are now done with dismissals and nom.
inal fines for real offenses under a statute AS to
your suggestion that betting or pool selling is al
races.
advised there is no statute making betting a
crime, and 1t Is not common law Oflense. The
statute against gambling devices is copied from
the law OF Maryland. where the courts construe it
not to include pool selling which is not device or
police that this is really not the law they will
gLadiy give those cases their attention, but they
smon!a not as you are aware make arrest except
(signedJ J. B. EDMoNDs, President
AN INTERESTING LAND SUIT DEc1DEp.-ra. nit
OF Mrs Sarah otterback, Of this n..J against Ed
ward Hu@no- OF Alex..ui.a, for the recovery OF
=. ceres Of LAM part OF the Belvoir estate 10
court Of that county Saturday In favor OF the
plaintiff, Mrs. Otterback, who thereby recovers
ture, one Of the questions involved was Whether
Lord Fairfax formerly owned this portion OF the
tract or whether 1t belonged to w. NJ. McCarty,
Ously in $780, and the decision sustans the title Of
Lord Fairfax. The land was bought by Mr. Hughes
for which he paid $500 No appeal from the de.
cisOn win be made. and Mr.. H. WIN at once relin-
Qush possession.
ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF STEALING s25OO-A
young white girl, named Bette White, in
mate OF a house kept by Annie Wilson. On 10th,
charged with stealing s.. 500 from the keeper OF
the house, and when found by Detective RAN She
In going snpp to the precnet
tfon with the officer she complained OF feeling
sick and asked permission to 60 into drug store,
officer afterwards found it. The keeper OF the
house, Annie Wilson. received back the greater
Court. Prosecuting Attorney Moore stated that
Bette White was In the hospital too Ill to be tried
In consequence OF her being about to become q
mother.
EVENTS IN THE CHURCHEs.-The cornerstone OF
the new " edce ain @ for Mount Jezree Baptist church
yesterday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies.
The new structure Will be OF brick Is feet wide and
ture having but the one room for divine services
Revs. VIM. Givens, T. 8. Robinson. Madison Lewis |
being made by Messrs Givens, Lewis and Scott.
Yesterday morning, at st. Dominics church, Arch
bishop Gibbons preached, and after the celebra |
tion OF high mass, assisted by Father ROtchford |
administered the rite OF confirmation to $50 child
rem and SO adults Rev. Dr. Crummen, pastor |
sermon appropriate to the tenth anniversary OF |
his pastorate He gave brief account OF the |
tne e NoS Gsnto has
late star route trial as basis of his sermon. He
made no special comment on the trial, but en-
deaved to show the analogy between 1t and the \
trial to which all mankind must at last come
THE CORNER STONE LAYING THIS AFTERNOON
The foundation at the northwestern corner OF the
Harris mansion, corner OF 18th and streets, has
been removed In order that the corner stone OF the
new Columbian University building may be laid |
this afternoon. In case OF rain the audience viii
be accommodated in the building, which has been |
made secure by large props: A small section OF |
the new foundation, about It by It, has been /
laid on the corner and the corner stone will be In
serted there.
DEATH OF JAMES WASHINGTON sHEAHAN.-James |
washington Sheahan, formerly OF Washington,
and one OF the most widely known journalists In |
the west, for many years leading editorial writer
on the Chicago Tribune died In that city yester-
day morning after lingering illness. His aiment
was extreme nervous prostratiOn and a gen. |
eral giving way OF the vital functions The fune- |
raj takes place from the Cathedral of the Holy |
Name Tuesday morning. Mr.. Sheahan was born /
In Baltimore In 1894 and was educated In the Cath
oic schools here and at Frederick He studied law |
and was admitted 70 the bar here, but did not
practice, and for series OF years was clerk OF the
board OF common council and he compiled Shea
hans Digest OF Corporation Laws. For time he /
was 8 cOrreSDOndent OF the Baltimore Suu this l