Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-11
Charged With Killing Comrade.

| an appeal to the Court of Appeals. The
decision of the lower court was affirmed
and Horton was duly executed
Charged With Killing Comrade,
Following Horton a young volunteer SOL
dier from the south named Dock n. Tharp,
was called to account for ending the life
of comrade, Aaron D. Bishop The SOL
diers had but recently returned from Cuba
and day or two prior to the killing had
been mustered out of the service at Camp
Meade, Pa Bishop was in a crowd at the
9th street passenger station waiting TO
take train for his home. Tharp, who was
drunk, fired revolver into the crowd AMI
Bishop was killed and Policeman Acton
seriously injured. On his previous good
record and on the possibility that the liquor
he had partaken of had been drugged,
Tharp was acquitted.
The next trial was one yet familiar to the
local public. 1t was that of Benjamin H.
Smell who was convicted of the murder of
Lizzie Weisenberger. He was hanged Fri
day, June %.
Wooster johnson, colored, was placed on
trial after the Smell hearing was thing Of
the past. He indicted for the murder
of Emanuel Dodson, June "a 1889. A YER
dict Of guilty of granddaughter was report
ed and the sentence was Imprisonment in
the Moundsvlle penitentiary for ten years.
Molle Harris was accused Of stabbns
Alice Queenan the 9th Of last October, and
thereby causing her death. Although placed
on trial for murder she escaped with 4
sentence calling for imprisonment in the
peritentiary for four years, the verdict
being guilty of manslaughter.
Ella Wracks next faced the judge and
Jury She was accused of pushing Isaac
Henderson off a high porch at 1927 Grace
street, the injuries he received resulting In
his death. Manslaughter was the verdict
and Ella was sent to Moundsville for seven
years.
Talmadge Walker murdered Hannibal
Shorter November IL last. and was placed
on trial after the wind-up Of the Ella
Wracks case The jury qualified its verdict
of guilty and Walker is now serving life
sentence , -
George Ashton beat and stamped upon
Ida Jackson the 9th of last November I'M
til life departed and he Is paying the pen
aItv in the form of life sentence in the
penitentiary.
Sentence Committed.
Consideration was next given to the case
of Arthur Landon. who was responsible
for the death of Henry Bradley the 18th of
last December. Landon claimed he acted
in self-defense, and made what was be-
neved to be a strong case. The verdict
was guilty as indicted, however, and he
was sentenced to be hanged the 9th in
slant. On the recommendation of the At
torney General the sentence was recently
committed by the President to 1mprison-
ment for twenty years
Immediately after the trial of Landon
Nelson Vale, an old colored man, was
given an opportunity to account for the
killing of Alexander Jackson the 14th of
last January He was convicted, the Pres
ident declined to interfere. and the SEN
tence was carried into effect last Friday.
William Stump shot and killed James
Lee while in a house in Georgetown, the
18th of last December. He was tried and
convicted Of granddaughter. The sentence
was Imprisonment in the Moundsvile pen
itentiary for seven years and six months.
Next to be tried was Charles L. McUin
who caused the death OF Robert Turner, by
cutting him with a knife, in a row over a
| woman, the 30th of December. He was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged the
27th instant. A respite has been granted
however, pending an appeal to the Court
of Appeals until the 23d Of next November
William Sauer a, member of the United
States marine corps, was tried for killing
James Allen, while on Sth street southeast
the 23d of February. He was acquitted
The next trial also resulted in acquittal-
that of Charles ]. 'Ornsby, who was tried
for inf1cting a fatal blow on Charles Col
way in connection with a row in front of
the New National Theater. late on the night
OF November 10.
The last trial for murder was that of
Olaf Pallesen. 1t will be remembered how
he ended the lives Of his wife Josephine
and little Julia Hengesbach. respectively
the 14th of last March. Guilty without cap
ital punishment the verdict, and i'm
prisonment for life the penalty.
James Lanckton, who is to be tried next |
fall for murder, is accused of numbering
Mrs. Bette Lee Wren March % last
Horse Runs Away.
A horse attached to Henry Morgan's Cos
peI wagon ran away on Pennsylvania ave-