The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-28
ACCUSED HER NEPHEW.
A Baltimore Woman Claims to Have
Reen Robbed of 10000.

BALTIMORE. Md. June 2S.-Mrs. Anne
Boyd. wife of James Boyd, who keeps a
saloon on Franklin Street, bewteen How
ard and Eutaw, startled the police of the
Northwestern district last evening BY de-
clarinE that she was robbed of over So
ESQ last Monday
This large sum she claimed she had had
at Ter home. 20 West Franklin Street, in
hand satchel and II was made I'D as
follows: 800 in gold, $500
check on the Provident Savings Bank.
books for 5000 Of deposits in the Central
and Metropolitan Savings Banks. $4,000
in United States Government bonds
The satchel. she claimed. was stolen
from her home last Monday evening, and
she charged her nephew. Frank Cole. with
. ing implicated in the robbery. This &C
cisation was made by Mrs Boyd to Lieu
tenant Carter in the private Office of Cap
tain Baker. As Lieutenant Carter was
recovering from the surprise which the
statement occasioned. Mrs Boyd launched
into serious charges against the Police
Department saying that it was crook
ed and that the police would make no
effort to secure the lost vaIuabIes for her
Mrs Boyd was escorted 10 the station
house by a policeman. and the greatest
secrecy was observed as to her mission.
Lieutenant Carter imposed the strictest
silence on all of the house officers.
From what Mrs Boyd said of the part
her nephew had in the robbery Lieutenant
Carter directed Policeman Carroll TO re-
turn with Mrs. Boyd 10 her husbands
saloon. where her nephew Is a bartender,
and bring him TO the statonhouse.
When Mrs Boyd and the patrolrnan
reached the saloon her nephew handed her
Ta a F. no. 4
in the icechest- Mrs. Boyd then and there
charged him with stealing the book,
which. she claimed, contained 800 in gold,
and which was in tbe satchel IF which
she had been robbed on Monday. Her
nephew protested his innocence of the
charge, but she would not listen to his
protestatious. She requested Patrolrnan
Carroll to arrest him. Carroll walked the
young man to the stationhouse. while
Mrs Boyd went thither By the street cars.
When all of the parties had arrived at
the stationhouse Mrs. Boyd hesitated
about making the charge Lieutenant
Carter did not like this and ne spoke very
plainly 10 her He told her Of her charges
about the Police Department being
crooked" Continuing Lieutenant Carter
said:
- sent this policeman with you on my
own responsibility, relying on the truth of
your statement to me"
Mrs. Boyd then insisted that her nephew
had stolen the sloo in gold, and then that
charge was entered against him on the
police docket The name Of the young
man as it appears on the docket is John
Carr, twenty-foUT years old. While the
charge was made against john Carr, Mrs
BOYD in speaking TO him called him
Frank.
Mrs. Boyd then requested warrant for
her husbands arrest and was told she
would have to get it from the magistrate
The nephew then asked Mrs Boyd to go
I his bail.
i would bail You out now" replied Mrs
Boyd. but you would go tell those smart
les where the money is.
Mrs Katherine Cole. widow Of ex-Rep-
resentativc Cole. and who is a sister of
Mrs BOYD. made the statement that her
sister had not been robbed Of the large
amount which she had named Mrs. Cole
WAS particularly Erieved that her nephew
should have had such q serious charge
preferred against him