Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-09-02
DUAL MURDER.

| tne SiWe1oy Oolf Ciu0, Wnicn g 10.
GATED 10 Corc)rsn Manor, the mt at
artist 1cratic section OF Mount Vernon,
IN. Y, weIe found murdered in the
clubhouse at al early hour yesterday
| morning. The men were literally cut to
| pie ces and the attic room In which
they lad / zen sleeping wcs spattsred
With bic I'd.
The steward, David Scott, colored
man about forty years old, had appsr-
| emily sen stabbed in his b>d, which
wss marked with blood stains, while
John Stevens, bis comps1i was
found lying on bed in the C,rner tf
| tae room, With big sesb on his right
log and srother near the spine. Scott
had crawled from the bsd site- ling
! wound !, and bis bo ]y ives found in
| big pool of blood on the fl, Or.
A carving knife, with which the
crime had evidently been committed,
was discovered in the tolds of the stew
ards shirt. Both men had retir. and
the room gave no appesre1ts of a
struggle.
II "a the opinion CT the membsrs Of
the club that the aFssrsi must have
broken 10 at night. While rsnsackipg
the rooms for money, they think, he
was discovered by the help, after which
a fight ,ourred and the steward and
head waiter were stabt ed 10 death.
This theory is not entirely borne out
by the facts.
Tne murder WIS reported to the
Mount Vernon poliCe at o'clock 10
the morning by Warren Simms. the
colored cook OF the club, who occu-
pied room at the end Of the hall lead
'pg to tue attic, where the other ser-
vsp'3 were murdered. Simms and the
other two men we're the only cccupe ts
OF the clubhorse.
Sim ms states that about 4 O'Clock be
heard some one moaning: "Ol, Dave
On, Davt!" The sounds seemed TO 1me
from the attic room. A short time sf-
terwavd smms got up and went into
the room. He says that he cllled the
men and rCoeivlog no reply bee ime
suspicious and lighted the q J. He found
Scott lying dead almost at his feet.
Stevens, he ssys, was lying on the bed
aud was not quite dead, but he wes I'm.
conscious nd could not speak. A few
minutes before o'clock Simms appear
ed OF the police station end reported
the crime.
Chief Foley says that when Simms
re- 1hed there he seemed cool and COL
Iected. There was no evidence that he
had hurriel frc M the club to notify the
police. A. Slmms was the only man
know" to have tsen at the ht use at the
time the crime VIZ Committed Chief Fo'
ley arrested him at once.
Chief Foley believes that Simms ls the
guilty man, and that he did not report
the murder for several hours. He says
that the bath tub wss used early that
morning by some Que to tske a bath
and he believes that Simms, after CON-
mitting the crime, went there to was
the blood away. Rev. Mr.. HUT says
that sll OF the men who were at the
club the night of the tragedy we're good
friends.
"Some devil" be declares, "Bnew
that those boyo had money there that
they had taken 10 for cigars, meals, and
drinks, and broke 10 and killed them TO
get it. Warner Simms Ia all right"
Chief Foley has also caused the ar
rest Of Frank bennington, another
youag colored man who was at the
Golf Club Saturday night.
Rev. Mr.. Hunt further Gays that
Scott went to Mount Vernon last fell at
his solicitation from Baltimore, where
he was at one time butler for the presi.
dent OF the Baltimore and Onio Rail-
road. Hunt says that John Stevens
went to Mount Vernon last July from
Petersburg, Va. Stevens, he ssys,
served as a captain 10 the Sixth Vir-
gipis Regiment during the Spanish war.
The rcboery theory is borne out some
what by the fact that rear door was
found broken open and the fscines Of
the cigar csse, in which the petty Gosh
is kept, were forced and the money is
missing.