Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-24
SUSPECT ARRESTED
Man Believed to Be Assailant of Mrs.
Hardy.
he MAKES CONFLICTING STATEMENTS
The Injured Woman Expected to
Decide Identity,
G ENERAL SEA RICH MADE

Shortly after i O'Clock this afternoon
Policeman James Davis of the bicycle
squad arr ested COlored man at the corner
of 32d and NJ streets who answered closely
to the description of the assailant of Mrs.
Hardy. He was taken to the station, where
he gave the name of Charles Busey. his
age twenty-seven and his residence as Mar
tinsburg, Nd, place about twelve miles
from SeEeCa.
Busey, while somewhat shorter in height
than that given in the description printed
of the victim, is quite black, has side whisk-
ers and small growth of hair on the chin.
His dress does not exactly correspond with
the description furnished by Mrs. Hardy.
The negro is known to have been famlllar
with the canal, and it was stated that he
knew that the husband of Mrs Hardy had
received money and given good portion
OF it to his wife. lieutenant Swindeli
seemed certain that the negro was the Gull
prit.
When first brought into the station
Rusey told a number of conflicting stories,
He stated that he had boarded canal
boat at Edwards Ferry, Md. at O'Clock
Yesterday morning. The captain or an
other canal boat told a different story, anu
was willing to swear positively that BuSey
came on his boat at Seneca, Md, at s
o'clock yesterday afternoon. If the latter
statement be true Busey comes pretty near
being the man wanted. with the assIst-
ance of the Great Falls car as far as tapli
John bridge he could nave Waihtu nc re-
manning distance between there and Sene-
ca SO as to reach the latter place between
2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon
The Prisoners story.
After he was placed in a cell Policeman
Davis had a long talk with the man, and
he told story which, if true Will clear
him of the charge. He claims to have LETT
his home at Martinsburg at o'clock yes
terday morning and walked to Seneca, and
there took boat. He admitted having
been in Georg etoWn, and stated thal last
Sunday he boarded a canal boat at Green
Spring. u short distance above George
town and went to his home. As soon as
Policeman Davis was through talking Win
him Detective Joe Carter was given pTl-
vate interview. at the close of "hich the
two were to compare notes to see II the
negro had made any misstatement A tel
ephone MESA &c was sent out to the county
police to notify Mrs. Hardy to come TO the
station to see if she could identity the sus-
pect. ,
The crime for which the negro is charged
is not capital offense in this District. Ac-
cording to the law, the maximum penalty
is thirty years in the penltentlary. Inns
punishment has never been inflicted. Inc
highest known sentence ever given was IN
the case of five colored boys, who were
each sentenced to a term OF twenty-five
years in the Albany penitentiary. Their
names were Robert Coates, Frank bowman,
George Jackson, Marshall Turner and Frank
Jackson, whose ages ranged from eighteen
to twenty-five years. They forced an cIgh-
teen-year-old Colored girl by the name or
Henrietta StOrned into the woods by the
side of the New Cut road, just west of the
House of the Good Shepherd, and they
there criminally assaulted her. The crime
committed on the evening Of June j.,
1904 and since the nty-five-year SEN
tence has been imposed a number of at
tempts have been made to secure the par
don of the culprits.
The Search by Police.
The search for the unknown negro who
SO brutaiiy outraged Mrs. Hardy, as pub
lished in The Star yesterday, was continued
today by the police, and every man answer
ing the description furnished by the wo-
man was closely scrutinized. Up to noon
today total of four arrests had been made,
but the real culprit was not found.
AS stated in The Star yesterday, the wo-
man appeared a the Georgetown police sta
ton at 80 O'Clock in the afternoon. She
again appeared in the early evening in the
hope of identifying some of the suspects,
but in each case she was positive that the
prisoner was not the man.
Il would know the negro again If l only
saw his head" said she. His eyes pro-
truded from his head, and he was very
black in color | remember this distinctly"
Gy, who is the captain on enc of the canal
boats, in some manner heard of the
currence and he came to his home this
morning. II was not expected by the wife
to return until Thursday evening or Friday
morning. He was able to furnish little ad
ditionai informa tion on the matter, and
then obliged to depart. The husband
Is well known on the canal
Confirms Belief.
From his statements the police We're con-
hrmed in the belief that the womans
assailant knew considerably about the fam
My. The husband stated that a negro an
swerng the description of the assailant
saw him paid off and knew that he had
money, and probably was aware of the
fact that he had given the greater portion
of 1t to his wife. 1t his custom to do
this.
The husband was highly indignant over
the outrage, and he was confident that the
cuprt would be unprecedented. The tiend
ought to be burned at the stake" said he
at the police station. Things are getting
very bad when a man cannot leave his wife
without danger of her being assaulted by a
black fend." Early IN the forenoon ne
took car and visited his home and had
long talk with his wife
Despite the fact that the negro had
plenty of time in which to escape, the
police continued all of yesterday afternoon
and last evening and this morning to scour
the neighborhood All of the roads in the
county inside of the District line were
patrolled, and the woods and underbrush
searched. The territory is SO large, and SO
ample are the facilities for eiuding detec
ton, If in the locality that the negro might
easily escape observation.
The search even extended out in Mary
land. Some of the police went several
miles out into Montgomery county, but no
signs of the much wanted culprit We're
found. The citizens. both inside the Dis
trct and in the county, were the alert,
and hunting parties with guns were looking
for the brute. 1t is predicted that had
he fallen into their hands his punishment
would have been summary and there would
have been no formalities of trial and
sentence in judicial tribunal.
CleNvs Furnished.
There were plenty of supposed clews fur
nished to the police Policeman Law traced
the suspected man to a point on the New
Cut road where the Great Falls electric
railroad intersects. This is located between
the Conduit and Canal roads. A number
of residents saw a negro answering the
description given pass along the road, and
he was last located at this point.
Thinking that possibly the negro was