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The Washington times., 1895-04-14
like LAMB TO SLAUGHTER
A Little Girl Lured from Her Home
and Murdered.
HER BODY IN A MANURE PILE
She Was Only Eight Years Old, andthe Fiend
That Slew Her. After First Committing
Another Crime, Was an Acquaintance of
Her Father's-When Confronted with the
Mutilated Remains Trembled Like Leaf

Boston, April 19-The most revolving
unearthed by the police of Dorchester dis
trict late this afternoon, when the body OF
Alice Sterling the eight-year-old- daughter
OF George W Sterling, OF No. 40 SaviD Hill
avenue, was found buried in the manure
pile of an old stable on the Denny estate.
The little girl g skull had been crushed in by
a heavy blow from an axe and there were
unquestionable indications that abe had
been outraged.
Angus d. Gilbert, night station agent at
the Savin Hill station of the Old Colony
division of the New York, New Haven, and
Hartford, is under arrest charged with the
crime.
George Sterling, who is a hair dresser,
reported to the police at midnight WedDes-
day last that his little daughter had dis
appeared some time during the afternoon,
while Mrs. Sterling and other members
of his large family were away from home.
Searching parties looked all day Thurs
day, but could find no trace Of her.
SHE SAW THE VILLAIN.
Officers Perkins and Smith were given
charge OF the case, and yesterday the latter
was informed by Miss Edith Reid that she
had seen from her residence, at the corner
of Spring street and Savin IIill avenue, a
man with a red muEtache and light over
coat leading the little Sterling girl by the
hand down the railroad track toward a
beach.
From the description the officers decided
that the man they wanted wasAugus D. Gil
bert, the night station agent at the depot
" tho dav time no Wprknd for q EnnnE
on Denny street, near Savin Hill avenue
| He slept in an old stable on the Denny
estate near by and Miss Reid stated that she
was positive the man went in this direction
after leaving the railroad tracks.
During the search this afternoon Gilber
was found at work at the Emmons place
He was Immediately placed under arrest by
| OFFICER Perkins This was about $50
| O'Clock. The old stable on the Denny plac,
was then searched. Two old towels ant
| bloody rags were found in GilbeTt's room
| When the manure pile w assearched Office
Perkins struck a human foot. A body wa
pulled out and was soon identified al
/ Alice Sterling.
HER SKULL CRUSHED.
Her skull was crushed and the cause o
death was apparent. Her clothing was torn
showing too plainly the motive of tn
| horrible crime A bloody axe was fount
near by concealed under a beam. Al
/ autopsy will be held Monday.
Gilbert would not admit the crime, bu
| when brought handcuffed to view III,
| BODY. he trembled like an aspen leaf. Gil
/ bert is rather stout, almost six feet tall
| twenty eight years of age, fair complexion
/ with O reddish moustache.
| Miss Reid, who furnished the clew, an
Mrs. william Allen called at station L
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and the falling Of his mind He recently
told her that he had been fighting all night
with Mr.. MetzRer, who was trying to get
his property away from him. She had
asked for a statement OF the property, but
her sister would not give it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton testified of Mr.
Donn's mental failure. Mr. Burton re-
membered a purchase OF stock last fall
when his father in-law paid five points
higher than he himself paid. Asked by
Mr.. Browning If he considered Mr.. Dom
able to transact business when he sng-
gested the purchase of the stock, Mr Bur
ton hesitated and finally said he thought
not Why, then, had he spoken
of it, asked Mr. Bro wning The answer
was that Mrs AIetzger would help him
Mr.. Burton was then living at his fathers
MR.. DOM ON THE STAND.
When Mr. Dom took the witness chair Mr..
worthington asked Mrs Metzger to be
pleased to take a seat at q distance from
her father, as il was desirable 10 see what
he could do alone. Mrs. hetZger, rather
prised and disconnected, complied Mr..
Dom could not speak above whisper.
He gave a number OF answers with ap-
parent Intelligence and recognition of the
relations of facts, but said to Mr.. Worth.
iugton:
al think you take me TO be murderer"
''Do / look like a bad MANI" asked the
attorney.
Yes was the reply with unusual vigor.
When told that the jury were his friends
he said he didn't believe it. He thought
somebody was trying to get his property
away from him, but when asked to point
them out declined, saying they might not
like it,
He was uncertain as to his invest mentI
and their dates, and thought Harrison wal
still President.
The hearing was adjourned till Monday
Mr. Browning said it was hoped settle
ment might be reached before that time.
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D0HA Wis SUSPICIOUS
He Thought Lawyer WOrthIngtOn
Looks Like a Bad Man.
PECULIAR ACTION IN COURT
Believed That the Attorney Took Him to Be
q Murderer-pid Not Think the Jurors
Were Els Friends-Two of His Daughters
Arrayed Against Two others-seeking to
Get Possession Of the Old HANS Money.

A large, well proportional man, once
familiar figure on Pennsylvania avenue,
came yesterday afternoon slowy and pain
fully into Marshal Wilson'S court room,
leaning upon the shoulders Of Deputy Mar
shaI Robinson and an assistant.
He was Oliver +. Dom, for many years a
leading dry goods merchant with a store on
the avenue near Ninth street, and he was so
stricken and bent under his three score and
ten wears with almost half another decade
added, that men on the luuacy jury gathered
TO investigate his case scarcely knew him.
Ills hair is still iron grey and his eyes
bright ard intelligent but every other sign
tG OF advanced years and broken healt,.
The investigation began at IL a. m, and
N number OF witnesses were heard, but the
Jury were sure that the best evidence OF his
mental condition would De 70 have Mr.. Dom
himself brought into court. The rain pre-
vented till half past one O'Clock when
there was q cessation that allowed him TO
come.
his DAUGHTERS COMPLAINT.
The proceedings, it viii be remembered,
are under q petition filed Wednesday last
by his daughters, Mrs. Ella T. Todd, wife
OF VIM. Todd, draughtsman, at No. 1116
Eleventh street, and Mrs Lula A. Burton,
wife of ID. Z. Burton, q clerk, living at NO.
1914 N street northwest. They complained
that som ebody had power Of attorney
using it to mismanage and get control OF
his estate, amounting to $500 600.
AS then animated by the Times, that
somebody was shown TO be Mrs. Mary @.
Metzger, another daughter, wife OF 4 O.
Eetzger. who now lives with MI. DOM
mt No 925 Massachusetts avenue north
west. The fourth daughter, who is said to
aide with Mrs. Metzger, is Mrs. Cora L.
Dinwiddie, who lives in Massachusetts
1t developed in the proceedings that Mrs
Eetzger, who appears 10 be the eldest
daughter, has for some time been in charge
of her fathers affairs She was married
only last year, and up to the time Of hel
marriage Mr.. and Mrs. Burton had lived
mt the old home.
Tie daughters and their husbands, excep
MI and Mrs. Dinwiddie, were all in cour
yesterday. The petitioners were repre-
scented by A. s. Worthington, Mrs. Metz
ger aud Mr. Dom by Frank II. Bro wninG
Mrs Todd, Mr.. and Mrs. Burton, A. F
Marsh aud DR.. ]. s. Dulaney gave tesu
mony.
TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES.
DR.. Dulaney said he had visited Mr.. Dom
some twelve times 10 the past year ant
believed him to be suffering with senil'
demeutta. 1Ir. Marsh told the jury b
had been accustomed to discuss bushes
with Mr.. Dom for years, and after Mrs
Donn's death aud an attack Of the grip, 90
curing near together, four years ago, Mr
Dom no longer seemed to have SCUM
mind
MrS. TODD told OF her fathers 1nues
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hand One hundred and fifty great war
ships are expected Germany alone will
have So men-of-war and torpedo boats at
Kiel, and the other European powers will
be careful to make q brave showing OF
their respective naval forces. England
in particular win strive to have larger
number of its vessels at Kiel than any
other foreign powers. 1t has al
ways been Englands policy to make such
a showing, as was evidenced at our naval
display, where she was represented by
much larger and more powerful fleet
than either France or Germany.
The opening of the canal will be an event
in the history OF Germany, but the great
| public interest win be centered in the spec
| tacular congregation of Eumberless modern
| warships. Secretary Herbert, of the Navy
| Department, has already instructed Min
| lister Runyon, of the American Embassy at
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AUDACIOUS PURSE THIEF
Two Women More Frightened Than
Hurt BY the Rascal.
They Had Been At the Market and Had OBJ
served Him Watching Them-Pros-
trated BY the Shock.

Murder! Helpl PoHcel" were the
words which Mrs. Cecilia Hine and Mrs.
Nettie Burt, of No. 412 Twelfth street
southeast, yelled in anguished tones as an
unknown negro halted them last night
at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Tenth street southeast, snatched a purse
from the fiIst-named lady and fled, with
Special Policeman John Brown in hot, but
vain, pursuit.
The robbery was bold, the booty small,
the amount realized by the hold-up being
less than So, but the frightened women
lost vast deal of nerve force which the
attack called forth. Both ladies are pros
trated by the shock. A description OF the
desperate ia in the hands of the police OF
the Fifth precinct, and they think they
know their nan, and expect to land him
to-day.
With hysterical Eobs Mrs. Hine detailed
to reporter for the Times, who called at
her home, the story of the crime. She and
her sister-in-law, Nettie Burt, had been
to market. Several times when they made
purchases at different standsi, they noticed
| a negro of athletic build cycling them, but
| attached no importance to it.
twas about 10 o'clock when they began
the corner of Tenth street and Pennsylvania
| avenue the same man whom they had
observed at the market came suddenly
| out of the darkness and stopping the ladies
| and presenting piece of paperto them said:
"Can you tell me where this number is?
! The victims of the nliscreant rested their
| basket for a moment, and taking the slip
! of paper from the man remarked that it
was a blank AT this instant the MAN
seized Mrs Hine, pushed her hnswoman
violently to one side, and wrested the purse
| from its owner.
Then ne rushed off. Special Policeman
| Brown heard the cries for help, and seeing
| the form of the fleeing man gave chase.
/ The purse was a gift to Mrs. Hine and had
| her initials on the silver mounting. In
addition to some things which MIS- Hine
valued because of sentiment were two
| paper bills and two Columbian half dol
| lars.
The Washington times., 1895-04-14
HAYlL PAGEANT At KEEL
Fleets of All Nations to CeIe-
hrate the Canals Opening.
UNCLE SANS CONTINGENT
Secretary Herbert Has Already Provided FOR
Representation from This Gsuntry-Csn-
pletion Of a Plaa 600 Years sli-Bis-
marck's Hand in It's Final succsrs-In-
posing Ceremonies Have Been Arranged.

What viii undoubtedly prove the great
stnavaI pageant in the history of the world
viii take place on the 18th of June at Kiel,
Germany, on the occasion of the formal open
ing of the great ocean canal running 62
miles long from Kiel to Brunsbuttel on
the Elbe, and practically making Hamburg
one of the most important seaport cities
in Europe.
Two years ago New York had a naval
review when there were forty great ships
OF war anchored in the harbor. A strong
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fearful of the trip, and Germany argues
that he will only be too glad TO make use
of the canal. Ship owners have suf-
fered gigan tic pecuniary losses, too,
by these many wrecks. Thirty five
thousand ships pass around Jutiand yearly,
voyaging between the Baltic and the North
Sea, and of these two hundred suffer
damage, the loss of human life being pro-
portionately great.
Copenhagen fully appreciates the 1eop-
ardy OF her maritime supremacy, and the
port has recently been declared free one,
and the city is also spending vast sums
upon dredging, lighthouses, and docks in
the hope of diverting some of the traffic
from the new canal.
A PET PROJECT FOR 600 YEARS.
The Kiel Canal. which is now practically
completed and is only awaiting the formal
opening exercises before it is given to the
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SPRING.
written for the Sunday TINES ]

The lowering clouds in welkin blue,
The softening copious shower,
The warm and gentle breezes. too,
Are harhingers with tidings true,
That Spring has left her bower.
Around hermagic wand she waves
With proud-and queenly grace
Along the branch, the tiny leaves,
Steal forth to see her face.
The tuneful brook starts up afTesh,
And breaks Old Winters spell
Der pebble, leaf and broken rush
Goes dancing down the dell.
The swift-winged swallow soaring high
The bluebird and the jay
Meier stop to ask the question why
They Join the roundelay.
As rosy moon, In robes OF light.
Etesls on q slumbering world,
Comes Spring with flowery garlands bright
Ere winters mIAts are furied. G. WI.
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Precept and Example.

Scene: A Sunday school. Johnnie-I
say, Miss Jones, know now why you didn't
want me 10 rob bird nests last spring.
Miss Jones with an oriole in her hat)-
Why was it, Johnnie?
Johnnie gazing with admiring eyes at the
hat)-'Cause you wanted the birds to grow
big enough to wear 'en-Kate Fields Wash
fnptOn
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Nine. pongY.

Madame Pougy, a lady who Is now
earning her living in Paris as q model in
living pictures, left Russia at the Access
sion of the present Gear with hundred
thousand dollars in her pocket as the price
of her going She claims to have been
married to the Gear; the marriage was an
nulled by the late Gear only O short time
before his death. The woman lost the
fortune given her as a bride at Monte Carlo.
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late tonight and positively identified the
prisoner as the man they saw with the
little girl on Wednesday.
Mrs. Sterling is Frustrated over the af-
fair, and tonight is in a pTeCarious con-
ditiou.
Gilbert was an acquaintance OF Mrs. Ster-
ling, and consequently was not unknown
to the child.
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What Henry Clay Did With His Razor
James Wooded, of Jackson, Washington
county, exhibited razor in an excellent
state OF preservation which was owned by
Henry Clay about 1888. The instrument
shows the name OF its former owner finely
engraved on the handle TWAS given by the
master to his slave and descended to its
present owner-Troy Press.
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A Woman's wnes.

LET me have 2-cent stamp, please" said
the dapper youth.
''We're all out of stamps" said the pretty
postmistress, "but We have some lovely pos
tai cards for a penny each"
And man-like he bought a dozen.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
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Silence Is Golden.

Oh, lucky lis that the w ORD ne 'er knows
The silent but dreadful remark
That over the deaf mute's finger flows,
When he steps on a tack in the dark.
Truth
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Limit
A man may pray for his daily bread,
And get it by and by;
But he must hustle for himself
In case he longs for pie.
Cincinnati Tribune.
Evening journal., 1895-08-22
EplToRIAL coMMENT.

Suppose New Yorkers should leave the
question 20 New York wives whether
they should have Sunday closing and
sober husbands, who doubts the decisionl
Chicago Inter ccsan.
There is only one way to eat corn
Assume the position Of aute player. A
fine ear treated b. a MASTER will remind
the spectator Of composition by Demets
seman played by that Admirable hatist.
Charles Mole Boston Journal.
We do not think Democratic National
Convention will ask any person to be a
thirl term candidate for the Presidency
A Republican National Convention once
had such a question before it, and the
answer was neld as settling the matter.
forever. Democratic respect for the un-
written law agsiust third terms IN the
Presidential Office Is not less than Repub
lean. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Campos in Cuba won't allow the papers
to prluJ anything about the trouble there
without his sanction Since he cGn'i
put head on the infurgent's columns he
wants to edit the news s-Philadelphia
Times.
Democrats. Whatever may be their
personal dlsapp0intments, should reflect
that it Is n serious thing TO break party
ties without ample justification, and that
tho future affords opportunitiea to fght
ont within the party lines the cause
which the Democratic party must settle
for itself Baltimore Telegram.
Evening journal., 1895-08-22
Tho sstier Had ni. s,mp.tI,v

Il saw rather exciting dog fight re r
town yesterday afternoon, remarked 9
WILMINGTON bnsiness man TO an EVENING
JOURNAL reporter 20. day "I was out
driving For soma time kept about
city feet behind farmers team which
was making for home at a spanking pace
big Irish setter WAS running behind
the wagon When opposite farm
house several dogs ran out and tackled
tho setter. There was no back down on
bis part until the fight csrrifd him close
20 thorn hedge that had been trimmed
several days before A thorn. carrying
with It a twig about foot loug became
en- mbacded Ia one OF the settlers hind feet
l. must have caused hlm
great pain. fcr he immtdiatelg
tnrnad his attention from his ASSISTANTS
70 the thorn They evidently sprrsci
ated bis situation FOR they attacked him
more iurioosly thar ever Tie setter
took bis puuisbment biting at the twig
al the time Finally he got the thorn
out SprinRing to bis feet he turned
upon his tormenters Ia about two u,in
utes he had whipped them ali and they
were scurryiug of with dropping ears
and tails The victor did not follow ND
his advantage but made dash for his
masters wagon. which was some distai ca
10 advance The setter bad my sincerest
sympathy during the struggle"
Evening journal., 1895-08-22
The College Student In Vacation.

From the Boston Advertiser.
There tra some thousand Of undergrad
uate college students in this cou ntry
who are at the present time having their
vacation. There Is a cessation Of college
work with them for period of three
months, one fourth Of the year. They
are no longer boys and girls, who abso-
luteiy need after confinement ia public
sohoolrooms for period OF nine or ten
months. complete rest from study, and
devotion TO play and recreation They
are OF q maturer class They are accus
toned TO call themselves men and women.
They choose largely for themselves frou
the long list Of elective studios The
conrse they wish TO pursue, usually With
reference to some future calling or
profession already decided upon.
10 would be interesting to know how the
mass Of these students are spending their
vacation Some Of them are forced By
circumstances to end remunerative
employment in order to render possible q
continuance OF their college cour e; but
tho number Of these Is comparatively
few. Some Tow others arc folloNiug
sps eisl lines Of study at Summer schools.
or are pursuing courses Of reading
while still a few others may spend the
lime in Instructive travel; but we take
70 that We are not far wrong when We
assume that much the larger number
are passing their vacation Ia something
not very unlike idleness Somshow thl
idea prevails that so severe is the work
Of the college year that the vacation
season must be fpsnt solely II
recupsration; that nothing involvin,
effort must be undertaken ang
so there ere fer tho averac,
student three months OF compsrstlvl
mental inactivity. II any reading Is uu,
dertaken Il does not extend beyond th
Simmer novel Unless one Is forced to 5
BY circumstances, useful employment !
Evening journal., 1895-08-22
coNTEMPoRAsY oPlNloN.
wm There ne CIvil vgar In oanada

WIN There BE Civil War In Canada?
From the New York san.
Some articles lately published In news.
papers regarded as the organs Of the
party In power IN Manitoba indicate that
the province will persist In It's refusal
so TO modify the school laws as to give
Catholics part Of the Education Fond
Moreover, the Dominion Government is
invi ed 10 ,xolain hoa it EXPECTS to
enforce the threatened remedial measures
she uld it venture TO enact them at the
next session OF the Ottaws Parliament.
phst 10 to say, the party dominant In
Manitoba avAvs its resolve 10 repudiate
the British North America Act. as the
charter OF Canadian Confederation IS
called. aud this eau only mean that II an
attempt et coercion Is made, an appeal
for protection 20 the United States will
follow. It Is, Of courie Q, possible for the
lieutenaut-governo OF Manitoba, acting
under instructions from the governor gen.
eral Of the dominion, TO dismiss his present
ministers and form a cabinet pledged TO
introduce bill restoring TO Catholics the
privileges formerly enjoyed by them ia
the matter Of education. But no such
bill would be passed by the present Pro
viucial Legislature. nor is there any
reason to suppose, In view OF the great
preponderance OF the ProtestAnts among
the electors. that a new Legislature
wonld evince more tractable spirit.
sooner or later, therefore, the Tories,
now In power Rt Ottawa, will have so
keep the promise which they lately made
60 their Catholic supporters In Quebec,
and carry through the Dominion PsrllR-
ment remedial moaaures intended TO
aupersede and override the will OF the
Manitoba Legislature The Tories
viii also have to provide for
the execution OF such measures
by the coercive powers OF tue Central
Government lt is nothing short, then,
Of civil war which seems likely to be the
outcome OF the education crisis in
Canada Ia the threatened collision,
however, between Federal and Provin
oisl interests the conditions will be very
difiefont from those under which the
Riel rebellion took place Then the
central power, Ia its determination to
discipline the French Catholics OF Mani
toSa, hsd the ardent support OF the
Protestants OF Oatsrio, while arrayed no
less zsaloualy a. ainst 10 were the sympa
titles of the Catholic population Of
Quebec Now 10 is the Catholics Of
OF @ iebec who call upon the Dominion
Government to see to it that their core
isionists 10 Manitoba are not deprived
Of the rights guaranteed TO them by the
Manitoba Act under which the Province
was constituted part Of the Dominion
ia 1870
Evening journal., 1895-08-22
wanted-rhe New woman.

The new woman will be very accepta-
bic to men Who 20 ont sailing In com.
pany with women. The modern woman
in a sailboat 10 more dangerous both to
herself and 70 her companions than a
broken spar OF unshipped rudder. In
time Of emergency ths is liable to do
anything; or, she may do noihDg. Man
never knows what che will do and can
make no provision to offset the effect OF
her action. She may jump overheard I;
or. che may alight on the gunwsle Of the
boat and upset IL. II given half a chance
she will drown both herself and hor
would-be reseuer. throwing her arms
around his neck aud hugging bsth him
and herself into eternity.
The disaster nesr Ocean City, Nd, Is
but another exempli6cation OF the un-
certainty OF the modern woman's action
in q sailboat The mere swinging Of the
boom from the port to the starboard side
for the purpose Of making tack was
sufficient TO cause two women 70 become
panic stricken They Immediately sprang
70 the lee 8i ie OF the b)as and capslzsd
It. In an instant the entire party Of nine
was foundering iu the water Four girls
who we're placed on the bottom Of the
boat for safety we're no sooner left
to themselves than they jamTed back
into the water. Two Of them clasped
their arms around the necks Of their
parents and father, mother and daughters
were drowned when al might have
bse1 saved but FOR The hysterieal terror
Of the women The modern womaa Is
responsible for seTen deaths in Isle Of
Wight bay. The new woman would
rever have gone into a panic; she would
not have gone ont IN an over crowded
boat; had sudden gust Of wind cap
sizsd the boat she w-uld have swuu
ashore