Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-01

road train August 10 in the navy ward
SSnarles w; Bliss WAS drowned at ocean
on Iy. Ma, the same day Harris Thompson.
colored, forty-three years of age ,,-5s
Killed August IL in a fan from a v,ip1",,,
AN unknown colored man was killed
| oE train on Long bridge on August
~; a. Two cars We're demolished August IS
IN colIlslon on the Georgetown and Ten
ieyt3wn railroad. A trolley car on the
nIisnt"ood line ran away August 81, but
no one was seriously injured
CharleS Seigert, an attache of the Vyar
lace circus, was attacked by a tiger San
TENDER and died a day later. a horsa
was Killed at the grade crossing at LIST and
II streets. Julian Baker took a fatal fan ar
the navy yard September & Miss linda
Beasie was run over by a wagon September
y while riding her bicycle. being quite
paaly injured The body of Edward A Fin
neSan was found In the river September
-. Gottfried Barth was drowned in the
Eastern branch September %
Ek-fostmaster James p. Willett was ac-
cioentally Killed September 80 by falling
down an elevator shaft in the new civ
post office building. Thomas Mccarthy took
a dose OF carbolic acid by mistake the same
day and died. Polly Jackson colored was
burned to death October 4. Henry Francis
was smothered to death in a fire at 335
Pennsylvania aver.ue November 8. John
Coppage was killed November 10 by falling
from car. Irene Thomas, a four-year-
old colored girl, was burned to death No
vember To- r. 7. Tippetts arm was caught
In betting at machine shop November 80
j.
United States army was killed while riding
his bicycle December g. He was in collision
with grocery wagon at Connecticut ave-
nue. and L street. Daniel A. Reif was killed
December II by inha ing Illuminating gas.
Thomas A. Rowe was drowned in James
Creek canal Christmas day. Daniel Carney
was killed by Brightwood car the night of
December q.
DEATHS BY VIOLENCE.
During the year 1899 Coroner Carr more
than earned the salary, having had IN
| usually large number of cases to investi-
gate. Among the cases that came to his
notice were all Of those in which charges
Of murder were involved. In these cases
inquests We're held, as they were in a num-
Der Of suspicious cases which proved that
death resulted from other than criminal
causes. While the records of the coroner's
office show total of eighteen homicides
during the twelve months the police rec
ords fail to show a corresponding number
Of deaths. During the early part of the
year the coroner was called upon to hold
inquests on the infants OF Sadie Bruce,
Mamie Brown and Gertie Johnson, as well
as upon the body Of an unknown infant.
In April the bones of an unknown colored
woman were found buried In vault in
front of 423 New Jersey avenue. There was
nothing upon which the police could work
in this case, and while it recorded as
a possible murder, the identity of the de-
ing month Sergeant Fritz Passau of the
Georgetown precinct was shot and killed
while endeavoring to apprehend Armstead
Taylor, who had murdered a Maryland
merchant, Louis Rosenstein, at Slidell, in
Montgomery county, at the time that Mrs.
Rosenstein was also murdered. Aaron ID.
Bishop, volunteer, was shot and ki.led in
the Baltimore and Potomac depot May 81
by a fellow volunteer named Dock N
Thsrpe, who also shot Sergeant Joseph
Acton.
The coroner's jury held Tharpe, but he
was afterward acquitted because he was
drunk at the time he took life There was
only homicide committed in June.
Emanuel Dodson the victim. having
been shot in the abdomen by Wooster
Johnson Little Lizzie Weisenberger was
horribly tortured and mutilated by Benja-
min II. Smell a pension office clerk. This
crime was committed Sunday morning
about the middle of August Whisky and
jealousy We're alleged as the causes and a
plea of insanity has been set up by his
friends. The killing of Kerby MobIey, dur
ing 4 fight in park near 18th street and
Massachusetts, avenue, during a boyish
fight, occurred about this time. A verdict
generating the boy who inflicted the fatal
injury was rendered by the jury of inquest.
On the last day of August Saul Jones was
killed. and Charles Bowen was held re-
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