The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-01
Carr ON THE HIGH SEAS
Probability That He Bearded a
Steamer at Baltimore.
NEW AND PLAUSIBLE THEORY
Has n Record as an Ocean Nagrant
and May Have Taken This Means
of Escaping-Seen TO jump
Train ON the Night OF the Crime
Police DespoDdent.

James Carr, the ravisher of little Rosa
Robinson, is stDl at large. ana it begins
20 look like even the police and detective
departments are beginning 10 despair of
his being apprehended
Detective Boydleftearly yesterday morn
ing for Martinsville, Va. believing tnAt
possibly the party under arrest There
might throw some light on the whereabouts
OF Carr. IL was known before the o"-
tective left mat the man arrested lhera
was not Carr, but it was thought that
he might he able TO give some fac~
which would lead To the discovery d tho
latter's whereabouts
Detective Boyd returned last night AZ
n Late hour and reported that has trip
mad been a fruitless one; that the man
arrested was Jonu X. Maggener, well
known 'tSwampoodle' tough. who was
simply heating mis- " ay out of the District
To a Times man Detective Boyd said
..i,efore I was sent GA my trip L knew
that the man was not Carr, but il was
thought the party under arrest might
be able TO tell Us, if he woald. where
Carr WAS That was the only hope we
had, sud ia this We were disappointed
although waxyener was a running mate
Of the fierd who outraged Rosa Robinson
The trip amounted to nothing, as Naggener
would not tell anything
CertaiA fartsin connection with the early
life of Games Carr, the raviSheT CT little
Rosa Robinson, have Just developed, and
they furnish basis for what may explain
the failure Of the police 10 capture him.
Instead of the fugitive hiding in the weeds
about the city or beating his way west
ward he is now safely aboard an ocean
steamer bound for some forei IN port, accord
ing to the new theory.
The plaushiity OF that theory may be
gathered from the following ~",-t' "-hi"h
are well known to neighbors
James Carr was an unruly
ing hi S early boyhood, and he a.
a strong desiie to assoc ate w
rowdies n his neighbOrhood
ten years OF age his mother d,
him TO schOol, and as she
Of relatives n Dublin, Ireli
cluded that she would pla
school in that city Accordi
was sent across the water, J.
relative. The wayward you
susted with the restriction
him there, so he determl nee
He left school one night, AM
ward shipped aboard a cattle
for Baltimore
His appearance here few
O big surprise to his parent
soundy thrashed for leav
Instead OF this doing him
him determined to leave b
did. His Familiarity with &
a cattle ship made il easyf
Job on one of them, so
"tramp" bound for Liverpool. lie sua ~.
there nearly a year, and then came back
working bis way as before.
Since that time he lived more or less at
home, though he frequently embarked On
shobo" expeditions.
A police officer OF the Sixth precinct,
who Is familiar with the tramp" steam
ers OF Baltimore, said last night that there
was nothing to prevent Carr from catch
ing the Has express to Baltimore the
might he committed the crime and Sc
curing a position on one Of the "tramps"
going out from Baltimore.
The captains OF these vessels, as O rule,
care nothing about the antecedents OF the
men they employ, so they are able to
perform their work.
Carrs Familiarity with work of this
description and his acquaintance among
the 'rOustabouts" in Baltimore make it
possible that he took this means OF es-
Gaping.
A fact in support of this theory is that
Private Detective McDeyitt has secured
reliable information that Carr did jump
the 11:45 train for Baltimore at the cor
ner of First street and Delaware avenue
northeast on the night the crime was COM
mitted.