Evening star., 1903-12-16
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
WILLIAM d. ZIMMERMAN KILLED
By RAILWAY TRAIN.
Was Employed as Car Inspector on
Southern Road - Soldiers in
Trouble General News.
Evening Star Bureau.
7O1 King Street.
Bell Telephone 100.

Bell Telephone 100.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. December 16, 1903.
William D. Zimmerman was struck and
instantly killed about IL o'clock last night
by northbound passenger train, No. 40. In
the yard Of the Richmond. Fredericksburg
and Potomac railroad here. His body was
badly bruised and the skull broken. The un-
fortunate man was employed as a car in
spector for the Southern road and lived with
his wife and two children on Wilkes street
| between Fairfax and Royal streets. A few
minutes before the fatal accident occurred
| he had passed from the yard of the South
ern to the adjoining yard Of the other road
and had entered the Office at that point on
business. He stepped out Of the office and
probably walked right into the rapidly ap-
preaching train.
Coroner William r. Purvis summoned a
jury which met shortly before noon at the
| undertaking rooms of B. Wheatley in King
street and held an inquest. The jury was
composed of the following: G. P. c. Tim
herman. foreman: H. D. Ashton, Henry F.
Robertson. G. J. Summers, w. A. Jolly and
C. s. Adams. Engineer ]. H. Tate and Fire
man g. w. Hite of train No. 40 both testi-
fed that they were not aware of having
struck man until told about it this morn
ing. They said there was nothing about the
engine to show that any one had been hit
There were no eye-witneSSeS to the accident,
but the yard men who saw the body soon
after stated the belief that Zimmerman had
been struck a glancing blow by the cars as
he stepped out of the office.
After short deliberation the jury re-
turned verdict finding that the man had
come to his death by being struck by train
No. 40. which had fractured his skull. No
mention of responsibility was made in the
verdict.
Soldiers Resist Arrest.
officers knight and Gill had lively time
last night in arresting two United States
soldiers from one of the posts near here,
who had come to Alexandria for an even
ing Of jubilation. The two officers closed
In on the men while they were making
merry in bOisterous way in the district
about North Lee street. They showed
fight when the officers attempted to make
the arrest, and one of them struck Officer
Gill a severe blow on the head The SOL
dier then made bolt and notwithstanding
two shots were fired after him. succeeded
in making his escape temporarily. His ap-
prehension followed soon after, and at the
station house they gave their names, re-
spectively as Walter Bacon and James
Roth. The cases were heard by Mayor
Simpson this morning. Roth was assessed
$40 and Bacon got off with half that
amount.
John Penn was in the dock for destroying
the property of Ella Kemper. colored. John
was fined So fine Of s., with the alterna
tive of twenty days on the gang. was i'm
posed in the case of Daniel -mmons, col
ored, charged with obtaining drinks in a
barroom and declining to pay for them.
Henry Stevens. colored, was before the
court on the charge of careless driving.
1t was testified that he was driving his
wagon by an electric train which was un-
loading passengers in King street last
evening and that the hub of his vehicle
struck Miss Eliza Smith, who was getting
off the train, on the knee. She had to be
icfn tn har rhI in, Il iner
street. Stevens was dismissed with rep
rimand.