Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-11
ABOUT GEORGETOW N,
The Suspected Murderer Of Swift Exon
Grated and Discharged
Affairs of Interest to Canal Men "A Dramatic
Club Going to Harper's Ferry
Brief Paragraphs.

Boats to arrive at Georgetown with coal
via canal yesterday were as follows: 70.
III. Capt R. C. Swain. los tons; w. S.
Jacques. Capt. 3. Bender. 1O2 TONS; CONSOLE
dalton No. Z. Capt. j. Dixon. IS tons: Con-
solidation No. 5, Capt. Sid Cross. 1oe tons;
NJ. Wise. Capt. Jess Swain. 1o6 tons; Theo.
Dean, Capt. j. F. Shupp. 102 tons; No. 123
Capt. j. Colbert. 101 tons; Muskingum. Capt
II. Teeters 100 tons: No. 1874, Capt. w.
Swain. 102 tons.
Boats cleared Georgetown yesterday as
follows: Consolidation No. 2. Capt. w.
Curtis; Consolidation No. 10. Capt JAS
Reed; w. II. Dunkinson. Capt. Jas. Reed ;
W. T. Conlehan. Capt W. Woodward; F.
Flanagan. Capt ]. Moore: ]. Hanaway
Capt J. Leary; No LII, Capt. r. .. Swain;
C. Wagley K. Capt. H. n. Jones; Dr.
Knott. Capt. J. Ewing; W. s. jacques. Capt
B. Bender.
Boats to leave Cumberland for George
town with coal via canal were as follows:
E.! sn Messai5 Tx Wnsh,p coMo ~ Cap.
Garder, 100 tons; Geo. A. McIlhaney. Capt
Jas; Dick D ~ los tons: No: ~ Capt. ,; W.
lOa tons: No i22. Capt. j. G. Baylor, 1os
tons: Consolidation No. IA. Capt i. Hun
tons: E. p. T. Beall. Capt. Hun. los tons;
No: IL. Capt. X. Gennivan. IO2 tons.
For j. P. Agnew 4 Coz. j. Alexander,
Capt J. Renner, 103 tons; W. II. Cooper.
Capt Jos. Baker. 80 tons; W. d. Walbridge.
APP II. buIlfl, lU4 tons: j. h. Snaw, capt.
r Runkle. 10S tons: Judge Douglass. Capt.
D. bowers. IS tons: d. d. Johnson. Capt.
A Nose los tons: Ollie W, Capt. T. Bowers.
fo2 tons.
Burgess Discharged.
After having been in Jail for about ten
days. with the charge of murder hanging
over his head, Richard, alias Dick. Burgess
or Madison street, Georgetown, was yester-
day exonerated and discharged by Squire
Randolph Birch of Alexandria county. be-
boz Hn erfr-a hoo
squire's house. some distance from Rosslyn,
the scene of the murder. was where the
last examination of the witnesses took
place Chas. Frizzell, considered the most
important witness in the case. had changed
his testimony somewhat from what was
given IN at the seventh precinct station
remembered that he had seen the coat or
one remarkably like 1T. on the back of Bur
So contradictory did Frizzeii make his
statements that the Judge finally told him
with look Of disgust on his face. that ne
had enough Frfzzell not only did not know
where he got the coat, but when or under
what circumstances he had given IL to Bur
CESS After a careful review of all the tes-
timony given IN, the squire gave as his
opinion that the wrong man had been held
him.
The search for the fiend who crushed the
head Of Swift. the sixty-five or seventy
year-old soldier from Connecticut, will
n rseroos re 9esln anew The majority Of the
slider for a moment the possibility Of a
white man having been the murderer, but
colored man. Burgess. on his arrest ac-
knowledged that he had seen Swift on the
day OF the murder. but that he did not tai
with him. He remembers, Also having seen
him In company with a colored man. whom
ne indefinitely described as very black and
with nat features. No one claiming an in
terest or kinShip In the dead soldier has
ever put in an appearance in Georgetown
or Rosslyn, and the superstition is that
either Swift was not the right name of the
deceased or he " as without friends or rela-
tives. The body, 1T will be remembered was
inferred In Arlington cemetery: In his ex-
yesterday Squire Birch was assisted by
Lawyer William Douglass.
Going to Harper's Ferry.
At a special meeting Of the Linthicum
Elocution Club last night there was read a
communication from the mayor of Harper's
Ferry. in which the young actors were re-
quested TO visit that place some time dur
Ing the month Of August and give an en-
tertainment. After some discussion it was
decided to visit the historic spot and ar
urday, the 18th. The best plays and scenes
In the clubs repertoire will be presented
In order to give an unusually smooth per-
Mr.. Robert Lowe. in addition to taking
his part in the bright play. Poisoned" will
niger will have general supervision.
Told in Brief.
Sixty-five dollars worth Of hay was yes
terday destroyed on Mr.. Hillery Burrows
place by some boys. who set fire to it.
Night before last burglars attempted to
get in the house Of Mr.. G. W. Moore 36OS
street. but their efforts proved noisy and
caused their discovery. gun was brought
out. but too late to shoot the robber birds
Ellen Tobin. the schooner that struck a
rock at the wharf Of the Potomac Stone
Company on Sunday last. and went down.
lies still undisturbed.
crushed stone to be used on the fortifica-
tons at Fortress Monroe.
The Georgetown and Tenieytown Rail-
road Company have secured the services of
Mr.. Ashton of the West End National
Bank and a former bookkeeper of the cor
poration to assist In the bringing up of the
companys accounts to date.
Mr.. John F. Warner, ST., father of Mr..
Warner Of 1913 35th street. died day before
yesterday at his home. 1855 Van Pelt street,
Philadelphia, Pa