Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-25
MIX-UPATNOTLEYHALL
FOUR MEN INJURED AND WOMAN
CUT IN THROAT.
Excursion Party Breaks Up Into Small
Parties Of Combatants-Arrest-
ed Parties Escape.

Three colored men came up the river on
a steamboat last night and went to the
Emergency Hospital for treatment for IN
juries received during row at the Notiey
Hall excursion resort. The trio incluoeo
Robert Travers and Edward Ellis OF 125o
Madison street northwest and James Al
fred Ellis of 211 H street southwest AFTER
being treated at the hospital they went 10
the Madison street home. Travers received
three cuts about the head and his nip was
injured, 1t being stated that knife ana
blackjack had been used on him. To-Day
he Is confined to his bed and 1t will prob
ably be several days before he will be able
to return to his work. Lewis was stabbed
in the arm and Ellis received wounds about
his face and arm
This was only one of several unpleasant
incidents at the river resort yesterday, and
there was also trouble aboard the boat.
One man was shot and had to be taken to
the Alexandria Hospital, and woman was
cut in the throat, but not seriously hurt.
Three arrests were made, but the victims
of the special deputy succeeded in getting
away and escaping trial. 1t was necessary
for two of them to tear the roof from their
temporary place Of confinement, ana they
succeeded in partly demolishing the struc-
ture.
The first trouble was the one in which the
man was shot Four shots were fired, and,
1t is charged, the bullets from weapon In
the hands of Charles Dangerfield took ef-
feet. He is said to be a special policeman
in this city but was down the river only
in the capacity of an excursonist. The
trouble began about a woman, 1t is stated,
and Dangerfield forgot he was In Mary
land and proceeded to discharge the duties
of an officer. ]. K. Seben, colored, who was
aiol dt,fxy OF Hn w
appealed to when the trouble started. but
the shots were fired before he could reach
the pavilion.
The Prisoners Escape.
Seben arrested Dangerfeld and placed
him in the keeping of a regularly author
lied county officer with the request that the
latter hold him. Seben turned about to get
witnesses to the shooting and presently
returned to take charge Of the prisoner
only to see him disappearing down the road
in buggy. He gave chase, but Dangertield
crossed the District line ahead Of him and
reached Congress Heights. where he board
ed an electric car and came to the city.
But few minutes after the shooting
affair was over the second row started
This trouble, 1t Is stated, was caused Dy
some colOred men from South Washington,
who made a sectional affair of 1t. They
objected to Northwest Washington men en-
1OylnS themselves, ana, IL Is cndTSeu, tilir :
teen of them arrayed themselves against
three. Knives and blackjacks were brought
into play and for a short time it was feared
riot would ensue.
"Our friends are getting cut to death, -
said a big colored woman to the deputy,
land want you to save them"
The three men had but little show, 1t is
claimed, being greatly outnumbered and
unarmed.
II didn't even have a PIN Hawkins told
q Star reporter today. "All that we could
do was to protect ourselves the best we
could"
Deputy Seben made two arrests in this
case and the prisoners were placed in a
room in the building in which there is a
photograph gallery. Then the deputy went
off looking for more trouble, and he found
1t. There was third row, and 1t was dur
ing this trouble that the womans throat
was cut The deputy said he was unable
to arrest the one who did the cutting and
he was unable to get the woman's name.
On the way up the river last night, he
stated. there was some trouble on the boat,
but he thought nobody was hurt.
Local Police Notified.
Early this morning Seben called at the
Anacostia police station and reported the
trouble to the officer in charge. Later he
called on Capt. Boardman at police head
quarters and related to him the story of
yesterdays incidents at Motley Hall. He
has also communicated with Sheriff Hard
isty and will assist the latter in bringing
the guilty parties to justice. He told a
Star reporter that many of the men who
were involved in the several ARRAYS had
been drinking. Their condition, he said,
was not due entirely to the liquor that was
bought at the Maryland resort, for many
Of them took bottles down the river with
them and mixed that fluid with some Of the
stock purchased at the bar there.