The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-07
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT
Miss KeIly's Furniture Again a
Subject of Discussion.

/ 1t Is still Available to Her If She
VIII Prove Her oyvnership-The
Commissioners Urged TO Have
Grocery stores 'osed on Sundays,
Richard ?. Evans. attorney for Mary
Z Kelly, recently complained that certain
property belonging to Miss Kelly had
+ been seized wrongfuIIy by the Police De
partmeut and had been detained since De
Cember, 1899. and that there was q threat
TO sell the property at auction. to pay
storage.
a report upon the matter by the Chief
Clerk OF the Police Department. James \.
Kemp. has been submitted to the Com
TniSsioners. in which it appears that the
property in question came into the hands
of the Police Department by due process
of law. ard has been held as abandoned
property. 1t is also stated that efforts
have been made to find the person who
now comes forward to claim the property.
Mr. Kemp says:
'On December S or Q, 1890, as a sequence
of the suit Of Munck VS.. Rowland. a depu-
" United States Marshal dispossessed &C
cupauts Of 5G Sixth Street northwest,
and placed their household effects on the
street where they remained, exposed to
of December u, 1893, when the police were
instructed to place them in the storage
wareroOms of Radcliffe & Darr, subject
to my order and warrant was procured
for one Rowland, who, it was understood,
was the owner, for permitting them to
remain on a public thoroughfaTe. Before
doing so. however. the police did their
utmost TO get the interested parties to
remove the articles from the street where
they constituted serious and unsightly
obstruction.
Subsequently, an attorney called at
this Office and stated he represented Mary
E. Kelly and that she was the owner Of
the property in question He was request
ed to notify Miss Kelly to call and prove
ownership and the same would be deliv
cred to her free Of expense
Two or three months later another at
toTney called and made a similar state
ment, and he was informed likewise.
August 9 last II. Randall Webb wrote
to Major Sylvester respecting this matter.
IN September Miss Kelly. not having
called IN the interim. the officers of the
Sixth precinct were requested to locate
her as Mr.. Webb would not divuIge her
address. SO I could see her in person.
In October, while / was suffering with
an attack of typhoid fever. an officer met
her On he street and brought her to
Headquarters where she informed Ser
geant Cessford that she owned the goods.
but would not take them until she had
an opportunity to see an attorney She
did not return
In November ] consulted with the At
torney for the District Of Columbia as TO
the propriety Of selling the articles as
abandoned property. He advised me to
serve formal notice on her Of my inten-
tiun to sell. and ! have been endeavoring
since that time to find her, but without
success
About the Isl instant, after consulta-
ton with the Auditor of the District. I
decided to apply to the Commissioners for
authority TO sell as il has been over six
months since Miss Kelly refused to take
her property, and the law requires that It
shall remain in my possession for that Pc
riod unclaimed before it can be sold and
the proceeds deposited in the Treasury
after deGuCtiug the cost Of advertising
and expenses incident to the sale.
If Miss Kelly VIII call upon me at once
and prove ownership viii deliver the