Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-08
M U R Err BY ORDER
Williams Claims His Captain Told Him to
Shoot Twigg.
The Canal Observation-Disclosures and HIS
Slayer In the Same Building
The Prisoners Attitude.

shot on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
towpath yesterday afternoon, as stated in
Star postscript. about 2:3O o'clock. was
captured an hour and a half later. He
proved to be Frank Williams. a colorsd
boy. hardly twenty years of age. He was
employed on the canal boat Ivy City as
mule driver and man-of-all-work. Twigg
had asked fer passage on the Ivy City
from Georgetown to Cumberland. His re-
quest was granted. AS the boat moved
slowly up the stream she met the scow
Of the canal company. used to dredge the
great trough. AS the canal boat approach
ed Twigg, 1t is claimed, stepped on the
scow with a whip belonging to the captain
In his hand. The colored boy saw him and
told the captain. The boat was stopped
ard the boy sent after the whip. Accord
ing to the story of Williams, as told in his
cell 10 star reporter. he passed. to the
scow, where TwigY was then seated, and
asked politely for the whip. 1t was refused
He asked several times without success
and then went beck to the captain. The
captain called out: IF you don't get that
whip I'll shoot you"
The boy started again. this time In de-
tcrmined way. He claims that az soon as
Twigg saw him. he 0he white NAM ad-
vanced with a long-bladed knife.
He again went. back to the captain, who
gave him a gun and told him to shoot He
went forth at first TREMENDOUSLY. but kept on
over the scow and to the towpath, which
Twigg had reached. Here. he says. Twisg
rushed at him with The knife, and he fired
full into his stons&ch:'d., ~ - ~. ...
As soon as the shot was fired and the
man fell the negro went back deliberately
TO Ivy City, by jumping on the scow. He
handed the gun he had used to Capt Lin
neberger.. You had better run now" the
captain said Hadn't better give my
self up" the boy replied. mo. break for
It," came the answer
Then the boy was handed $.25, about
or e-third of what was due him for work,
and he boIted. BY this time the attention
OF several had been attracted by the noise
and they Immediately started OF after
the boy, who raj up the towpath. Fore
most among the followers was W. T.
Richards. the ''bcs s'' on the dredging scow
The boy saw he was being pursued and ran
for dear life. He realized before he had
gone far that he would be overtaken, and
turning from the tcwpath he rushed down
the hill into the marshy land near the out
let lock. He was caught there in the mud
and found that he could proceed only with
difficulty. He stopped then to rest. A
moment later his pursuers came up and
sighted him. Sergt. Haney and Officers
Brown and Ffnnelly. who had Joined the
followers. took charge Of him. He offered
no resistance. The patrol was summoned
and he was brought to the station His
victim had been brought there about two
hours before and placed in the morgue
almost beneath his cell.
He lay en- board. his body covered with
old white spread. his feet protrudlng.
his shoes full of blood.
Williams is short and round headed. His
teeth are long aid full of ridges-unusuaI
looking. His eyes are dull He talks me
chemically. His face is full ana lacks life.
His fingers are long ard wrinkled. When
The Star mai approached his cell he was
lying prone on his face, probably half
asleep. He arose and came to the grated
door ct the second calling. He was not
remorseful-not laxative Questions were
answered when put, though most of them
had to be reDes ted Meanings were SEEM
insly grasped slowly. He was scantily
clothed, his trousers, fun of the mud of the
marsh. having been taken off ard hung in
the cell. No tremor was noticed when he
SPOKE of his crime.
He seams to be devoid of all sensitiveness
There IL more of the animal than man in
the fellow. He seems to be almost uncon-
scious of the seriousness of his position and
does rot realize, apparently, what ne has
done. He talked of the crime last evening
to reporter as If he were telling the most
commonplace incidents. He appears to be
exceedingly ignorant and hard Of under
stancing. Answers had to be drilled from
him. He said he was from some unfntelIi-
gible place about twenty miles, from CO.
lumbia, 5. c. He had worked on a farm
there. Both parents were dead. He had
three sisters. but had not seen them for
years. nor did he know where they were
on leaving South Carolina he had worked
Of Barnum & Bailey. He left it in Wash
ington and went to Cumbe rland after hav-
Ing failed to get work in Pittsburg He did
not leave the circus voluntarily He was
dropped because he was not needed In
Cumberland he secured jdb with Can't
LinneberSer of the canal boat Ivy City en-
gagged in coal transportation.
Twigg was probably twenty-six or TWEEN
ty-seven years of age. When shot he was
very shabbily dressed. His features are
ciear-cut and rather handsome, though his
SKIN is dark, rather of an olive complexion
His hair is curly and of rich black His
name is tattoed in large blue letters on his
right arm below the elbow.
Inc stomach was horribly torn by the
leader bullets. which bored their way in
They made noles as large as slups
TwiSg. it Is said, had been working for
Taylor Reid. the canal captain He was
employed on the boat Mertens. He had but
left Reds employment that day
His father is John Twigg, who resides al
lock 81 on the canal, his post office address
being Pawpaw, Md.
The coroner yesterday. late, ordered the
removal of the dead mans body to the
sixth precinct morgue, where there are IA
cflities for preserving it, The inquest will
be held at o'clock today.
As soon as Captain Linneberger's part
in the crime was discovered. through the
boys story, efforts were at once made to
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