Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-19
WASHINGTON @, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9 1902

next room and get bottle of ink, pen
and some paper. When this was done the
woman turned toward Mr. Tryon and said
You draw up an agreement 10 pay this
girl certain amount OF money each
month"
II viii not do it. replied Mr. Tryou.
You will, or you will 90 out Of here a
dead man, was the joinder.
Then l will go out of here a dead man, .
coolly replied Mr. Tryon
About this time some children came to
the door, and as Mrs. Washington opened
past her. He had hardly reached the pave
ment when pistol shot was fred, and Mr..
Tryon was struck near the left hip.
He was at FIRST not inclined to report the
matter to the police on account Of the un-
desirable notoriety, but it was finally de-
cided to notify Detective Evans.
The officer went to Mr.. Tryon's house
where the facts were told, and after an in
vestigatiou he proceeded to the woman 5
house, in Fenton street When asked why
she shot the old gentleman she assumed a
digui6ed air and replied
Il did it to protect my home"
She made a statement to the police,
which was taken down by Detective Evans
aud Officer McGrath in which she made
accusations against Mr.. Tryon.
Lizzie Waller was also placed under ar.
rest and will be held as a United States
witness. She made a statement which con-
tradicts that of her sister in important de-
tails. She said her sister threatened to kill
her if she made a denial, and told Of the
conversation between her sister and Mr.
Tryon, as quoted above.
Mr.. Tryon until last fall lived at 5i7
Ninth street northwest aud is highly re-
spected. He told his story to Detective
Evans in the presence Of his wife, daughter
and grand daughter, and other members of
the family.
The result of this attempt to blackmail is
that both women are bound over to the
grand jury, Ada Washington charged with
shooting with intent to kill and her young
sister with attempt to blackmail
Mr.. Tryon, who is, as stated sixty years
old, and who bears a spotless reputation, is
supported and sustained in his protestations
of innocence BY his family his friends and
his superiors in the Treasury Department
Mr. Tryon has received note FROM the
officials in the Treasury Department in
which they express sympathy and belief
that he was the victim Of deliberate at
tempt at blackmail
The GLOBE has not doubt of it, and Mr..
Tryon deserves the thanks of the COM
munity for having resisted, at such personal
sacrifice, this nefarious attempt Neither
himself nor his family will be injured in
reputation or character by the exposure in
the press, and Il is sincerely to be hoped that
despite his age he will speedily recover
from his wound
Now the GLOBE desires in this connec-
ton to call the District Attorneys attention
to these bands of young white and the few
colored young girl blackmailers. They are
too often successful in imposing on the
authorities when seeking warrants for the
arrest Of their intended victims Neither
themselves, their attorneysor elders should
be given warrants which put a stigma on
their victims for life as in the case of the
Seventh street merchant, without a pains
taking and thorough investigation by the
detective department. into the antecedents,
environments and lives of these young
girls. Charges of rape and attempted Grim
inal assault have filed the penitentiaries
with thousands of innocent victims, as
guiltless as Mr.. Tryou, who so bravely re-
sisted the two colored blackmalers the past
week We have known cases of men of
over seventy years of age doing time" in
the Ohio PenitentiarY for the crime of rape!
And in one instance the criminal I'D was
an octogelarianl
When George Hoadley was Governor of
Ohio he pardoned, without solicitation
every case Of this kind he found in the
prison on the ground that the men charged
we're innocent. Gov Hoadley is a great
lawyer, but a still greater judge of the limi-
tations of (male) human naturel