Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-01-01

successful use of Knockout drops" BY
TINS means several crooks managed 10
rob unsusrecting victims OF Alcohol and
chloral, and one OF them, perhaps the
best known crook of them all Happy
Jack" Lawson, was apprehended and given
term OF five years Imprisonment
On the night of January 81 the Eckin.-
ton and Soldiers Home street railroad Of
hce at 18th and ID streets northeast. was
robbed. Two men and a woman figured
In the robbery. the men doing the actual
work. The night clerk was held up at
the point CT a pistol and was compelled TO
deliver up the cash and car tickets. Mon
roe ID. Schenck and W. l. Roberts re-
ceived eight and one year sentences. re-
specuvely, Tor this robbery. while Grace
Gooding, their female companion, was re-
leased on her personal bonds.
In addition to these classes of thefts n
number OF adroit swindles were operated
mere during the year. and while some OF the
schemes worked well, many of the work.
ers were landed In prison or are out on
bond Crimes OF forgery and false pre-
lenses figured rather largely. Frederick
Smith was held on a charge of forging the
names OF naval officers while w. A Bate
man and r. A. Bowen. the so-called ,li--
rectory swindlers, are also awaiting trial
Frederick w. Enrich. a business man was
held-up' on the street by a colored man
VINO not only attempted TO rob him, but
who also shot him. On the night of No.
vember Mr.. Samuel F. Merrill. while re-
turning home, was waylaid and robbed.
ThiS daring crime was committed on lafh
street. in front of the Portland flats and a.
man was arrested the alleged rohber
The murderous record kept pace with
similar crimes In former years. Samuel
Patterson. colored, started the record jan
uary by taking Lewis Dade's life with a
knife, and he is now serving ten years.
On the Sth of January Hack Inspector
Gron was murderously assaulted by some
unknown men, but he managed to recover.
In April the hunchback shoemaker John
a hfll tai lk- 1ar,l. TN
shop and robbed. So far as is known his
murderer is still at large Five days after
ward Bryant Mackal stabbed and killed
Thornton Burrell on the Anacosiia bridge
and has been held for manslaughter. The
murder of Elsie kreglo followed, I'm Nav
and two days after this brutal murder a
game OF cards at a ''parlor social ended
in Louis Walker shooting and killing Will
lam Jones. For this Louis is serving a
sentence of ten years. On the morning of
June the notorious George McCauley at
tempted to murder Lieut.. Amiss. Ten
years was the sentence given him. Frank
Washington, colored. was arrested for a
wholesale assault on a family. and Rich
ard Stewart, who only few days ago at
tempted the lives of his mother and blind
stepfather, is awaiting trial.
Columbus Pearson, an aged man. shot and
killed a young man named John Ford at
the formers home in Georgetown. A v.r-
dict of murder was returned against Fear
sen.
Arthur Sloan was killed by John Palmer
on the 23d of August, i'm South Washing
ton. These young colored men had been
friends and they quarreled over a sweater,
but the killing was done in self-defense and
Palmer was acquitted. At Heurich's brew
cry, i'm September a colored man named
John Sites struck Conrad Flock with
brick, so badly wounding him that ne sub
sequently died. Sites is in Jail awaiting
trial. Five days later Mellon Phillips was
fatally cut by Daniel Gray, and the grand
jury has returned an indictment. George
it'll l.Ch ral fata nj Sfah h.a
month, and the following month Abe Mil
dleton tried TO kill his wife by shooting
her. She was dangerously wounded, but
has recovered. On the 18th of October
Gywnne Tompkns, the turfman. was shot
by John w. Collins, a clerk I'm the Commits
sioners Office 1t was alleged that TOmp-
kins had sent letters to Collins wife. Be
fore the case was called for trial Tompki1s
left the city. In South Washington five
days later John Minor was fatally stabbed
by Frank Turner This stabbing occurred
at ''parlor social. where Minor was
doorkeeper. An Indictment against Turner
and a companion has been returned, but
the case has not been called for trial.
Saloonkeeper John T. Clark fired two
shots at two customers with whom he mad
trouble but neither bullet took effect. He
is under bond for the grand jurys action.
Several arrests for assaults on policemen
were made and severe penalties imposed.
The only fatal shooting in which po-
lice officer took part was the killing af
London Shears by Policeman Curry. One
special policeman, Joseph Williams, COM
mitted suicide.
During the year the police made q ,3s4
arrests, of whom 10000 were white and H.
794 colored The members of the detective
force made a total of $50 arrests including
the apprehension OF a number OF fugitives
from other Jurisdictions. The work of the
sanitary officer of the department has ma
terially increased, and one ambulance and
driver have been added to the service
Cranks who come here from a distance
Qit kill SomehOdV- to imac-
mary claim or to have some imaginary
wrong righted have held their own. there
having been an average OF about two each
month. There has been an unusually large
number OF applications for transportation
this year. but because of the limited
amount OF funds, not more than one-third
of the requests were granted. In all, $40
persons were sent from here 10 other
places. The hospitals received $500 per-
sons through this office.
STREET RAILWAYS.
The past year has been one of unusual
interest in street railway circles. There
have been many important happenings, and
from January to December an animated
activity has been presented on the part OF
one company or another. The most i'm
portant events of the year were the COM
pletion of the wrecking of the lexington
and Soldiers Home and the Belt Line rail-
ways the appointment of a receiver 10 take
charge OF both companies, and the attempt
to further involve the roads and jeopardiZe
the interests of bondhoiders and stock
holders alike by experimenting with COM
pressed air motors, with the alleged ulti-
mate design of eauipping the lines with
such power, and meeting the expense there
for with receivers certificates. The roads
Indicated are still i'm the receivers hands,
and T. Edward Hambleton of Baltimore
and his associates are engaged in an at
tempt to form a great corporation, which
will absorb the local lines and make them
a part of an inter-city road between this
city and Baltimore.
The other events OF the year may be
briefly m entfoned.
The newly organized Traction Capital
Company. held its first annual meeting in
January and elected officers. In the same
month the Commissioners decided to ex-
dude the trolley hereafter from populous
and to cause all rapid transit
street cars to stop to take on or let off pas
,engers on the near side of the street The
railroad employees formed re-
ief association January 81. The Capital
-aflway was chartered by Congress IN ApriI
Nay the Metropolitan Railroad Company
oelo Into the District treasury q Judgment
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