Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-03
Killed by a Ten.year.Old Boy.
" A ihA of "a J. MURPHY SRNT TO THE 4

iht SLAYER OF wN. J. MURPHY sRSr To TBR RE-
FORM SCHOOL
II the Criminal Court before Jude-e Wylie this
mo hing. the case was called OF Daniel Mon,ford,
'0''fed D"y. scarcely FOUR feet high and but ten
tSSIe "id " no was indicted for the murder OF VIM.
- -iuIphS- au apprentice OF Thomas SOmmeryille
" >oh. WE" was killed by blow in the head from
Stone thrown at him while ne was passing down
~ StT,ei IN wagon. on his way home from the
ip,thtt Where he was at work
Etl. tgNart. assistant district attorney. stated
t1'tt the deceased. with others. was In a wagon,
AMI the boy Montford asked permission to ride
w ich Was refused, and he threw a stones which
e. SIZED.
up anu the court asked Are you willing TO plead
guilty OF Inansiaughter?r
lies. SIR said the boy firmly.
lie plea entered, and the court sentenced
him 10 the reform school until he reaches twenty
one years Of age.
\ Little Wore About the Free Rr,ava
Il the Editor of THE EVENING star:
Il = very important that Ger tain statements In
tile communication or L. 81. S, to TIE STAR OF the
3l.t UT. should not be allowed to go uncontra-
d,'ed- Ihere are some people who are as well
informed on the subject of which he writes as r.
H. = ;'nd am one OF them. live on the land i'm
III -a'tleiF adjacent to the "Three Sisters" have
1lNtI on IL Tor tie last eighteen years and know
~ luot OTIS gorges. its hills and its mud from
Ire waters edge to Fort Myer and ArItntrfon IN ms,
SOUTH and TO the points east and west Wher, a road
jetdihg from bridge at the ..Three Sisters would
i'tl9tl the present road leading to Falls Church
=, - dh error and deuSlon TO say that bridge at
lit point named ''Htnst terminate on the Virginia
size III "a ut'tp gorge from which it Is Impossible to
emerge uhder one mile. and that directly AWAY
nom FORT NSer and Arlington This writer and
NJ Ifhus nave been endeavOring heretofore to
'irde tLG impression that instead OF a deep gorge
we should nave 10 encounter bluffs from 900 to 300
Itet nlSh at the southern terminus OF a bridge at
III hIee SsterS. and one statement is as near the
lIdtH as the other. A perfectly practical e road
l"f bridge at the "Three Sisters could ~. con-
Sifncted by an almost due south course to Fort
INNtl Il am speaking adviSediy. IL would cost
hrllrS that: but II would be a shorter, straighter
anu every way more desirable road than the one
LON existing from The Aqueduct bridge or any
that could bt located from the her points named
! ail hot aware that The people OF Virginia have
any uirect clilm Oh Congress for free bridge but
th' 0t>fe Tor such Il bridge is confined TO "a
ieW Hlalccnent truckers OF Alexandria county,. as
- H. = i pleased 10 assert. no Que knows better
tHih himself that large majority OF the people.
both OF Alexandra and Fairfax counties would
greatly prefer bridge at the Three Sisters Site for
tiie simple reason that they would thereby sooner
reach the paved streets Of the city and get out OF
II, nilId They ali plead guilty TO that Craze
l. H. y stNoWS preference fOr bridge at EaSbyS
ltf would build 81 high TO preclude the necessity
OF Il dr'tW. ain not a civil engineer but under
th In say mat no such bridge can be built at that
point unless II Il at an elevation away above the
toiini ,Alilo>tan} and made to connect directly
WITH the Virginia shore. such bridge III the very
We an tired OF the arrangements ami settlements
o''N"eh toooIS and leSoees. that we hear Of and
read o. but never soc cOnSunnated Ii T. H. =.
WIZ ma way 10 stop the collection of tolls while
- iicEotlillOn> are going ON we will have
Iaitu Iii them. THOMAS JEwvII
Ait.Nandr!a CO., Va. April l, 1884.