The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-07-10
Death Result OF Row.

The Washington star of Monday, says
Louis Hogan, colorcd, about nineteen
years old, was killed Saturday night be-
tween s 80 and 9 o'clock, at Oxon Hill
Prince Georges county, Md. The killing
occurred on Oxon Hill road, not far from
the soloon conducted by the Moneys at
the cross roads, and in whose employ the
dead youth was Immediately following
the crime the participants in the affair fed.
Officers of the county were in pursuit OF
them all the night and yesterday morning
about 6 o'clock Charles T. Osterman, a
member Of the Washington police force
attached to No. 6 station, took into custo-
dy the three men who were later held by
the c]oroner>s jury as having knowledge of
the crime. These men are Ernest Allen,
Joseph Sansbury and Jesse Snnsbury. all
weite, WHO reside with their people in
small habitations near the District line,
not far from Congress Heights.
Officer Osterman, who was at his home
near the District line on sick leave, was
requested by the law Off ials of the coun-
ty to aid them in pursuing the alleged
criminals. After being given a descrip-
ton of the men suspected the officer had
but little difficulty in tracing them to
their respective abodes, and he oon
placed them in the custody of the Mary
land authorities. Osterman, Constable
John H. Webster and Deputy James
Grimes accompanied the prisoners through
the woods to Oxen Hill, where a coroner's
jury sat the greater part OF yesterday in
hearing evidence, the outcome being the
holding of the three suspects referred to
for the October term of the court at Marl-
boro'.
Thetragedy aroused the residents of Ok.
on Hill district, particularly the colored
folks, to a higher pitch of excitement than
has any occurrence in years. No violence
was attempted, however. Nevertheless,
the sentiment was freely expressed by the
colored men that THE prisoners had bet
ter be taken away before night" and so
the offices concluded to act upon the sug-
g%estion.
There is general evidence amon those
residents of Oxon Hill who were &C.
quainted with Louis Hogan to show that
he was regarded as an inotfensive youth
and one who was never known to have
been in any trouble. His father lives at
Oxon Hill village and his mother resides
at 1908 Loudoun place southeast.
Nlr,r ~ r, =, h,J hoo, -, <Io o,,,1or
of the Moneys for a month. Saturday
night George Hatton, a colored citizen of
Oxon Hill, gave a musical entertainment
in a grove on Oxon Hill road, and a COM
was while the crowd was in the act of
passing up the road to the place Of enter
tainment that they came in clash with the
result stated.
Different stories concerning the killing
have been told, one of them being that the
Sansbury's have had bad feeling toward
the Moneys, and toward any one known
to be in their employ, for several months,
as the outcome of some difficulty in the
saloon in which Benoni Sansbury, the
elder, so it is alleged, was worsted, and in
which, it is claimed a pistol was used.
One theory is that the S%ansLurys and their
friends, recognizing Hogan as being en-
ployed by the Moneys, singled him out of
the crowd of colored people as an object
of attack. Rocks and stones of all kinds
were freely used, some of the missiles strik-
ipr hoycac -, tho irbharbo .I with <,r
rife force, but the battle was suddenly
ended by the cry: They've killed Hogan"
Hogan had in the meantime fallen in a
ditch, from whence he was dragged dead.
His body, it developed later, had the ap-
pearance of having been stamped upon in
an outrageous manner. DR.. G. H. Parker,
of OXon Hill, pronounced him dead. Fol-
lowing the discovery that some n had
been killed there was a general fleeing of
all who had taken part in the fight. The
officers of the county took up the trail, as
stated, while Magistrate Waring and other
citizens prepared for the holding of an in
quest.
When the prisoners were taken to the
scene of the crime by Officers Osterman,
Webster and Grimes the following jury
was impaneled by Judge Roberts: S. S.
Adams, foreman; John Washington,
Harry W: McKim, Guy Grimes, John D..
Locker, Hugh Thompson, J. Alfred But
Ter, John G. Barrows, E. May, jr; Silas
Talbert and William Brown. Of these
Washington, Locker, Thompson, Butler
and Brown are colored.
TIL" inquest was held in an unoccupied
house to where the body had been re-
moved. DR.. Parker described to the
injuries hat had caused death, he having
made an autopsy. The intestines and
general appearance of the interior of the
abdomen indicated that Hogan had been
struck with a large missile at that point,
and had been stamped upon at we'll. The
principal wounds were at this point.
The general statements of the witnesses
as to the meeting of the two bodies of
men in the roadway agreed, as did their
Some of them saw Hogan fall.
Miss Addie Sansbury, daughter of
William Sansbury, who works at Gies-
boro' and lives in OXon Hill, stated she
was walking along the road with Joseph
Sansbury just before the attack began.
She ran to her home nearby when the
tumult assumed dangerous proportions.
The prisoners was brought forward
and examined. They admitted having
taken part il the f%racas, but only as a