Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-30
MONEY AND WATCH STOLEN.
CeIored Man Robbed on HiGhway-At
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tempted BurgIary-soeial Event.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
EVANSVILLE, Md. October 30. 1899
John Patton, a colored man who works
a small truck farm near Suitland, this
county, was held up by two highwaymen
near his home Saturday night and relieved
of the proceeds of the sale of the produce
for that day, also of silver watch and
chain.
Patton says the two men. who he thinks
were coored, were sitting alongside OF
the road when he passed them in his
wagon. They followed him to lonely part
of the woods where they demanded his
money at the point of revolver. He re-
fused and while one of the men held the
pistol to his head the other searched him.
They had white handkerchiefs tied over
their faces, and the darkness prevented
him from getting a good look at them.
After getting his money they compelled him
TO turn his wagon and drive back toward
Washington.
The officers have been notified It Is
thought to have been the work of some
one living in the immediate neighborhood,
as one of the men addressed Patton by his
name.
Colonel C. R. Smithey of Winterbourne
Manor, the old Jardin homestead. near
Contees station, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. was awakened last Thurs
day night by a noise in his parlor, aid
upon investigation found the parlor win
dow open. He secured a shotgun and
looked out the window. He saw form be-
hind one Of the trees and fired at it. A
man ran as he fired, and a second intruder.
who had been concealed under the parlor
window, also fed.
Several residents IN this section have
reported attempted robbery and are now
keeping shotSuns in a convenient place.
one of the most enjoyable events OF the
burg Club Of the Maryland Agricultural
College, at that institution, Friday evening.
invited guests We're present from Wash
tngton, Baltimore and the surrounding
counties. The chaperons were Mrs. Thomas
HumPhries Spence, Mrs. L. X. Fitzhueh,
Mrs. w. Gibson Carey, Mrs. Geo Tise, Mrs.
Nicholas Gill, Mrs. Helen Rapley and Mrs.
Arthur Carr.
Among those present were Misses Mary
Branch. Alice Hammond, Sadie Roberts,
Rocalle Calvert, Christine Owens, Florence
and Mamie Carr, COlneiiia knight, Mary
Whteley, Mary Sheridan, Grace Van Loan,
George Shallenberger, Mary Mintersen,
Stella Hammond, Nina Babylon, Mamie
Iise. Marion Evans, Daisy HURT, Maude,
Blanche Bond, Blanche Stewart, Nora
Diversified. Daisy M. Hammond, Daisy
Winterson, Nettie G. Spades, Mary and
Lula Jones. Bessie Btundon, Myrtle Moore,
Gi ace Renard Fuller, Carrie Small. Sue
Turner, Caroline Efnaek, Dasie Dalgleist,
Marion Mcfarland, May Cummings. Annie
Long, Corinne Mcfarland and Ida M. Child
ress; Messrs. Nicholas H. Gill, jr., Allen
Hammond, Chas, Nininger. Donald Evers-
| field, Geo. Clagett, Geo. and BALTIC. Calvert,
Sothoron Key, AIbertTtRoberts. Clarence
| Roberts, r. H. Harding, Archie Wells, Prof.
Henry T. Harrison, Henry T. Lanahan.
| Frank B. Bomberser. Or. Jos. r Owens.
| Prof. Thomas HurBphriss Spence, Richard
p Whitley, Jas. Shallehberger, j. w. Bar
| rows, R. c. Julian, Montgomery Brown,
| Clarence Owens. John 4. Wall. Walter r.
! HARE, James M. Proctor Jas. Daigleist,
| Hodges Carr, Robert Wells, Jack Redling,
! Jack D. Brooks Percy and Myron Cassard.
| Charlie Dickie. Heeder Cough, Hanson
! Mitchell, Joe Peyten Phillip L. Rebb, Ber-
| nard Robb, J. r. LAughiin, Martin Norris,
| Straugh and Fhos, Malcolm Price.