Evening star., 1899-01-02
Many Inquests.

dents and many dead infants claimed his |
attention. The first case of any conse- |
uuence that claimed his attention was the |
killing of the newborn babe of Stella Scott, |
colored. She was arrested by Detective |
Boyd, after a careful investigation of the |
case, and she confessed her guilt. Soon
afterward came the killing of John Brown |
by an engine in the Baltimore and Potomac
depot. Five inquests were held in muroer
cases during the month of March. Inc
killing of Judge II. o. Claughton and MISS
CuStiS on a grade crossing beyond Bennlng
Station resulted in a searching investiga-
ton by jury, as did the double tragedy
on the Ivy City crossing OF the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Fannie Harris and Geo
Gray, small children, were killed in the
latter accident In the first case the rail-
road company was held responsible, Whlle
the Ivy City affair resulted in the holdlng
of w. III Keys who was IN charee ol .ns
gates The Philadelphia. Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad was held responsible LOT
the death of Thomas Landrisan in August.
Three homcides during October swelled the
number of inquests for the year. One case
in which a criminal operation was per
formed was investigated. A new morsue
was erected in rear of the sixtn oreclitGt
station during the year, when greatH
facilitated the work of the coroner ana en-
abled him to hold bodies for an indefinite
period for the purposes of identhcauoh'
Some Accidents.
There were a number of serious accidents
during the wear Just closed. The first fatal
accident occurred January 3. when Miss o.
| P. Belote of Norfolk, Va, was killed and
Mr. William Puller and Miss Zola Tarrant
| injured in n runaway This was follower
| few days later by the killing of Samuel
| Marcy in stone quarry by premature
| explosion Mrs. Lucille Blackburn Lane
| do lighter of ex-senator Blackburn of Ken
| tucky accidentally shot herself with a plS-
| tol at the Hotel Wellington. Elisha Bur
| riss was suffocated by gas at the lhysoh
/ n
| west A few days later Albert }. Farr was
| killed by falling from window at the SOL
| diers' Home. The same day the dead pooy
| of Michael W. Leo was found IN the Navy
| Yard tunnel where it had been run over
| by a train and Randall Hagner lost his
| life by the accidental discharge of a shot-
| gun. Early in February Edward Henry
! was killed by falling timber at Iahofha,
| this casualty being followed in couple OF
| days by the burning to death OF Cora A.
! Della on the same day John A Brown
| was killed at 9th street and Maryland ave-
| nue. by a Baltimore and Potomac railroad
| engine Rebecca Ray, colored, was frozen
| to death. Less than week afterWard
| twenty-sx persons were poisoned at am
| ner some of them being made very III.
| Julia Clemenson, an infant. was burned 10
! death On Washington's birthday the re-
| mains of Frank e. Garrett were found IN
| the canal March l.. J. Sangston was
| crushed to death by being caught between
| freight cars on the b. and .. railroad On
| Robert Carter. Five days later Anne Bean
| colored aged ninety-six, died from poison;
| foul play suspected, but no arrests lol-
| lowed. Arthur Meyer was shot ana Killed
| hy Clarence T. Burton at Glen Echo. Elsie
| GRAY Adams. aged nine years, was run over
by a brick cart and killed on the 18TH, ana
the next day Allen Williams, colored, was
| drowned in the James Creek canal. Peter
MAYO. colored. was killed by falling from a
building on the 31st. G. w. H. Wienecke,
who rode in front of an electric car on his
| bicycle was knocked down and Killed.
About two weeks afterward John AIKEN,
! aged five years was drowned in the Chesa-
| peake and Ohio canal, and within another
week William Chick was drowned in the
Potomac river. Early in May Charles
| johnson was shot at Langdon by Charles
| H. H Sherman. The next day a train kill
| ed Arthur NJ Matthews. while he was at
tempting to cross the Long bridge Rich
ard Clinton shot and killed his sister Goidle
| on May 16, and the same day John SchaIer
| fell from a scaffold and was killed. The
next day Thomas w. Angel was killed by
an electric car at the corner of Pennsyl-
| vania avenue and Sd street, ana Leo Ans.
| ley fell into the fountain at the botanical
| garden and received injuries which caused
| his death.
| ON the Goth Joseph McArdle was killed
while making a wIe connection on
| street and four days afterward an un-
| known cOlored man was found drowned IN
the canal Two days later William Sean
lon was killed by falling from a window
| This casualty was followed Dy lne
| Of the body of unknown colored man II
the river Thomas Coyle fell from NOV
ing lexington and Soldiers Home car anc
was killed early in June. The same da!
the remains of an unknown man were
found in the river with stone around him
D Three DAYS afterward Frank kaynourkt
g of the 65th New York Volunteers was killec
t | by a Southern railway freight train. The
!. next day George Curtin was Killed by th'
e explosion of a soda water fountain on Cap
/ | itol Hill A little later William Davis, col
A ored was drowned in the Potomac neal
t | Shepherds. Arthur Ehle was drowned il
e the river at the bathing beach and EdWarC
n | Deartb of Company 3, 9th Illinois Voun
: | teers lost his life in the Potomac on TIL
a 2Sth. On July Eugene Law, aged 81
y | years, was run over and Killed by Baltl
:, | more and Potomac engine at the corner o
i | MARYLAND avenue and 11th street. BY IN
e | breaking of brake chain on a Congress
It | Heights car on July IL an accident wa
r. | caused which resulted in the killing OF tW'
d | persons and wounding of thirty-four. Th
| verdict of the coroner'S jury was that tn
n car was overcrowded. On the 3oth JON
e | Corbin was killed on the B. and o. raiiroa,
| | near Bladensburg. Bessie Turner, coiored
e | aged seventeen was burned to death earl
r. in August. Ten days later George IL. DiNol
d | shot and killed his sister Charles Royce
a | Lawrence Warrick and John Henderso
n | were drowned in the Potomac, and MANI
e | Honesty was run over and killed by a Grea
= Falls electric car ON the 18th. Will Thomas
r colored was drowned at the bathing beac
| a feW DAYS later. w liildih JbihpS
le from a window and was killed on the sam
st day. In a collision between two buggie:
Is two days later, Sophie Gheen was killed
p Dr. Powell Bradley was killed by fall a
n the Hotel Johnson Milton Petit was XIII
10 ed by a train at Anacostia, and Thoma
n Landrigan lost his life in similar manne
W in the New Jersey avenue yards Mis-
m Annie V. Bennett was burned to death b
an explosion of gasoline the same day
s. September Thomas Smith, colored, jump
ID | ed from a train at Terra Gotta and wa
ID | killed Frederick Freeland ard Edward {
,e | Cooper were killed and Darius Harma
e. seriously hurt in railroad wreck at tn
,e south end of the Long bridge on the 6tl
IN The next day an unknown colored man wa
m killed on the railway tracks beneath tn
Pennsylvania avenue bridge. Harry Coffe
IS and John Greener of the 18th Pennsylvani
t. Volunteers were drowned In the Potoma
Id near Fort Washington. Catharine Thoma
v was Killed by an electric car at Az and
w streets southwest. Mrs. Mary Taylor an
" her daughter and three others were badl
er injured in a runaway in the Southwestern
a section of the city. Arthur A. Erb, lette
os carrier was found dead in bed at his hom
of from inhaling gas, on September L. Tw