Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-17
AFFAIRS IN GEoRGETowN.
An Entertainment Which Did No
Satisfy Anyone.

An Entertainment Which Did Not
Satisfy Anyone.
If the police had not opportunity arrived
last night upon the scene in all probability
Henry W. Minor would have been treated
at least to the preliminaries which accom-
pany a lynching.
Minor advertised a wonderful entertain
ment to be given at the First Baptist (col-
ored) Church, feature of it to be the pres
ence of "a red man with wings, like bat,
caught by one who has risen from the
dead. He will be with him also. He has a
chain on him to keep him under good COM
mand."
The show, the circular stated. would be a
marvel. of interest and of two and one-half
hours dure ton.
There was a scramble for seats and ex-
ran high. At eight minutes of 0 Minor
stepped upon the scene. The curtain was
TO nave arisen at o'clock. After two or
three magic lantern pictures, whose exhi-
bftion Consumed exactly five minutes, it
was annoI iced that the show was over.
There had been no red man" in any form,
shape or degree of substs Etiality, and the
audience boiled over The church was filled
with loudly expressed W1ath, and a call
was ade for Henry w. Minor. He came
among the callers, because there was no
pack way. Then they grabbed him and
hustled him, kicked him and damned him,
'front.' OF the church it looked as If he would
be hammered into sausage meat.
Minor Is big, fne-looking colored man,
and he kept his attackers off pretty well
until the police arrived. They threw the
mantle Of the law over him and bore him
to the station. There he was charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses.
1t seems, too that the entertainment was
advertised as a charitable event, but Minor
is believed to have been the only benefici-
airy of note.
He is said to have misrepresented things
oil around and the pastor of the church.
Rev Sandy Alexander, was taken in, it is
claimed. as badly as the congregation.
Inc tickets announced: Admission for a
couple twenty-five cents"
Had No Light.
Ebenezer Williams and VIM. Sedgwick,
colored bicyclists. were taken in last night
for wheeling Without light. They were
of a number who acted as spectators at a
colored cycle contest on the Conduit road
who stayed late and who had not provided
for the departure of daylight and the de-
mands of the law. These two were OF a
big party who scattered on their arrest
and escaped -fl
Geo. w. Freeman. a boatman, was struck
over the head last night a crushing blow
by VIM. Umble, colored tough. Freeman
got into an alteration with him while
heavily Influenced with liquor The boat
mans face Is a mass of cuts ETC., and his
head round of bruises.
VIM. H. Thomas entered John Beckwith's
store on NJ street last night. treated the
proprietor to round of verbal infamy
made threats of personal violence, and
then executed them. Beckwith is inof
fezfsive until strongly aroused. At the
blow from the other fellow he bristled and
then struck out. Thomas is still trying to
realize where he is. The police arrested
Ee,kwith and, required collateral of him.
Thomas Is also registered on the station
books as an offender. Thomas was fined
IS In the Police Court today.