Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-13
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Youth Caught by the Police in the Act Of
Stealing Coal.
Older Companion Manages to Escape
Changes in Street Lighting-Man
Iniured-General Notes.

William E. Dorsey, a fourteen-year-old
colored boy, was arrested yesterday after
noon shortly after 8 o'clock by Policeman
Harry Lehman on a charge of petit lar
ceny. The youth, in company with an older
boy, was caught in the act Of stealing coal
from the yard of Mayfield & Hieston, the
boy holding the sack, while his companion
gathered the fuel On account of his age
Dorsey was released on IS collateral and
an attempt will be made to capture his
confederate.
Last Friday afternoon Policeman Kava-
nagh chased a half-grown colored boy
whom he sighted stealing coal from the
same place. The fugitive had quite a start
and managed to escape, leaving his plumber
behind. There has been considerable COM
plant about petty thieving and the police
express determination to break it UP.
Fell From a street Car.
Daniel Grimes, stonecutter, while riding
on Metropolitan street car about o clock
yesterday evening, fell from his seat in the
car at Both street and Prospect avenue He
sustained an ugly scalp wound on the back
of his head besides other lesser injuries. He
was removed to the Georgetown University
Hospital, where DR.. McNamee sewed up
the wound. Later he was sent to his home
on the canal road
fOlfce Matters.
James Friers of 1898 NJ street has report
ed to the police the thefts of several carv-
ing knives from his residence About three
weeks ago two knives were stolen from his
place and last week a set Of carving tools
disappeared. No one is suspected of the
larceny.
Worden Fairfax, colored, aged fifteen,
was arrested yesterday afternoon by Po-
llceman Lehman while CARVING five
pounds of lead in his hands. The lead
was evidently taken from the sewer con-
nectfons in some house, the pieces of pipe
being split open. The youth claimed to
have found the material on the dump but
the police do not believe his story.
Electric Light Changes.
Some changes have been made in the
electric lighting of 32d street. The old
poles of the Potomac Electric Lighting
Company on the west side of the street
have again been brought into use, the long
iron arms being removed and the arc lamp
suspended by means of a curved iron on the
top of the poles. The iron poles of the
former United States Electric Lighting
Company, on the east side of the street.
which were formerly in use, will be taken
down, 1t is said, and erected in other sec
lions of the city. Workmen are now en-
ployed in making the change.
General Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Baron have issued invi-
tations for the marriage Of their daughter
Miss jeanette Baron, to Mr.. Francis G.
Ward, the ceremony to take place Wednes-
day evening, February 81 at o'clock, at
St AIMS Church, Tenleytown.
The funeral of Mr.. George F. Aud, the
paying teller Of the Farmers and Mechan-
les National Bank who died Saturday
evening of paralysis, as published in The
n will ho IA1I o.
noon at o'clock from the late residence
of the deceased, BOIL Cambridge street
Services will be held at the chapel in Oak
Hill cemetery, at which place the interment
will be made.
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