Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-14
WEATHER PRoBABLITIEs.-For this
section fair: warmer -southerly winds.

a TIE BLOUSE RoBBERs.-Joseph
Jones. David Thompson and James
Coleman, all colored. were in the dock
'Sat the station house this morning,
Charged with being the three negroes
who entered Sefer Biouse's saloon on
+ Thursday night, and assaulted his wife
and robbed the money drawer. There
was an unusually large crowd present
to witness the proceedings. Mrs.
Blouse, who is an old woman and
whose nervous system has been con-
siderably shocked by her experience
with the ruflians, when she was con-
fronted with Coleman before the trial
burst in tears and positively identified
him as the negro who caught her by
the head and placed the razor to her
throat. She also recognized Jones and
Thompson as being the others whom
she admitted to the saloon. All three
had been seen in this city Thursday,
aud the police, under direction Of Capt.
Web. ter and Lieut. Smith, went to
wor!L. diligently to ferret them out.
They I'll bear unsavory regulations,
are said 10 be penitentiary birds, and
their haunt in Washington (Dinsmore's
allev) was discovered. Officers James
Smith aud William Webster were sent
TO Washington to secure their arrest,
and, as has been stated, Jones was
found in the Sixth street depot Fri
day night and brought here, and
saturday Coleman and Thompson
we're pulled out of the alley by
the police of that precinct and
Lieutenant Smith notified of the fact by tele-
Dbonc. The two men were subsequently
5nrncd over TO the Alexandra officers, who
brought tham here and locked them up
Jones. it VII TIC remembered, has served a
term in ths penitentiary for shooting col
ored man az Shiloh Church in 1850. a col,
orcd man named Clara Carer, WHO saw an
three men in Blouse's neighborhood about
o'clock Thursday night, and who it was
known would be a witness III tins case, hsn
evidently been tampeIed with or lntlmldatco
before she was put on the stand this morning
but she eventually told all that was required
OF her. She acknowledged that colored
woman named Stiliyard sister of I'd Still
ward. suspected of being on the pavement
when the crime was committed. had visited
hey. The witness had been told that she ln-
CURED The risk of being killed ii she testi'
fed against the accused. Three negro
women from Dinsmorss alley-Fannle
Thomson. Lille Brown and Alice
Goeer5-had been brought from Wash
ingtou for the purpose Of cndeavorlng
TO proyc that all three men were in that city
on the night of the assault and robbery.
They all affected intelligence and refinement
pronounced depot 'iep-oh' and seemed to be
Of q class who were endeavoriDg to drop rl-
r,l manners and ape those of the city. Their
evidence was Numerically opposite TO state
ment made nv Jones yesterday to Captain
Webster. and also in his voluntary deposition
this morning. he sta. ing that he was III Alex
andria Monday, while oHe OF tle female VIII
nesses swore he had not left thc mousse any
time last week. Another of Inc women salu
one of the accused had not been oGs VI 'iic
house at night at any time during the Vice.,
while another testified to having entertained
the man at a tea given by her from hali-past
six To ten o'clock Thursday night. One OF
the witnesses admitted that she was liv-
ing with man not her husband. They
found themselves considerably mixed up, and
Lille Brown. one of the trio. became incensed
at the Alexandria witness CLARA Carter anu
IN a subducd tone thrt atened her with bodily
harm. The Washington woman was lmme-
diatey seized by an officer and locked up and
later fined ten dollars for contempt. Jones,
Thompson and Coleman made unsatisfactory
statements in which they in general way
denied the charges brought against them.
Mayor Strauss concluded that the evidence
against the accused was sufficient, Mrs. Blouse
10 itivcly identifying the prisoners, and he
sent them on to the graud jury. Mrs. B-ouse
said she supposed she was 10 be killed when
The razor was put to her throat. and that al
ter she lad been released and the money
drawer taken they threw bottles and glasse
at her head which fortunately missed their
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