The Washington times., 1904-05-17
GAMBLING STOPS
ACROSS RIVER
st. Asaph's POOlrOOm Alone
Open.
OTHER RESORTS SHUT TIGHT
Attorney Macl1ey Turns Policeman and
Arrests Alleged Assailant
of Servant Girl.
OTHER RESORTS SHUT TIGHT

With the exception of the St. Asaph
poolroom, every gambling house in AL
exandria county is closed tight. The
faro banks, hazard boards, and policy
joints of Jackson City are as quiet as
the grave, and have been so for a week
or more. giving no signs of a return 10
life. Six policy writers of Rosslyn have
put the lids on their places and screwed
them down. Heath Bros, since their
snug little establishment on the river
side was raided a week ago. have not
opened up again.
Last Sunday and the Sunday before
were extremely dry" all over the coun-
ty, a wave Of enforced virtue having
swept over that section of Virginia in
the wake of Commonwealth Attorney
Mackey's vigorous campaign.
LuII in Hostilities.
From now until June 4. when the
cases of the St Asaph proprietors will
be considered by Judge Nicol, there will
be a luu in the hostilities. After that
there is no telling what may happen,
but ii is safe to say that whatever does
happen will be extremely interesting.
The church people of Alexandria coun-
ty have taken UP the fight with Mr..
Mackey. and last Sunday the conSrega-
ton of the Balston Presbyterian Church.
the largest church in the county, adopt
ed resolutions rendering the campaign
ing officials their sympathy, and pledg-
ing their support and cooperation.
Clever Police Work.
Attorney Mackey. in addition to his
war on the gamblers. did bit of siren
uous police work on Sunday night. when
he captured a man suspected of cutting
his negro servant. About $50 o'clock
Sunday night. Leila Williams. aged
twenty-three. who cooks for Mr.. Mackey,
came running to the house bathed in
blood, which was flowing in streams
from her head and neck. Upon question:
ing her Mr.. Mackey found that as she
was coming home from church a man
sprang out az her from behind bush
in Dead Mans Hollow" which is a
few hundred yards west of Rosslyn,
threw his arm about her neck. and be-
gan stabbing her in the face and neck
She was taken TO Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital, and Mr.. Mackey, accom-
panied by a young man named Frank
May, started after the assailant.
The girl had told Mr.. Mackey that her
lover. Cation Heron. was Jealous Of
her, and If he caught her would try
t. Kill her. In a little while Mr.. Mac
hey anu Ills companion met z negro
coming along the road. They halted
him and drove him 10 Rosslyn in front
OF them. There Edward Barnard, a
storekeeper, identified the negro rs
Heron. and Mr.. Mackey took him %
Jail and locked him up.
In Precautions Condition.
AS soon as the girl is well enough If
she ever RECEIVERS from her wounds, an
effort viii be made to identify Heron
as her assailant. At present she is in
a very precarious condition, as there
is not a square inch on her face and
neck that was not slashed by the knife.
When she was attacked she screamed
MURDER George ShaeffeT, who was
n couple Of hundred yards away, fired =
pistol when he heard her cries, and it
Is thought that this frightened her VIC
sailant away. She ran 200 yards to Az
Mackey's house as soon as he let her
go. The physicians at the hospital say
il is a wonder she did not drop dead
from loss of blood Her condition is
stil precarlOus.