Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-21

connected with the police force he has
steadily grown in the esteem of his superb
ors and that Is due to the fact that he
has constantly attended to his duties faith
fully and we'll Sergt. Sprinkle was born
in Ohio on July Z. 1864. He remained In
that state during his boyhood and received
his education there. When he had reached
his majority he enlisted In the army and
served for five years on the frontier in the
campaigns against the Indians in the south
west. 1t was period of strife In Arizona,
New Mexico and old Mexico, and Sergt.
Sprinkle was in the thickest of 1t. He was
one of the party which captured the noted
Indian chief Geronimo during campaign
In southern Arizona and Mexico. serving at
that time under the late Gen. H. w Law
ton, then a captain. who was killed in the
Philippines. Geronimo was taken a cap
tive from the Skeleton canyon to st. Au-
gustine. Fla where he was held a prisoner
for many years and where he Is still tech
nically held.
At one time during that campaign the COM
pany in which sergt. Sprinkle served was
forced to go for eight months with practi-
cally no shelter at night and with little to
eat or drink. On that march. alternated by
fighting sixty-four started and twenty-five
finished. In the regiment was DR.. Leonard
A. Wood, now major general.
Without Food or Water.
Sergt. Sprinkle, with ten other men, fol-
lowed the leadership of Gen. Wood for
three days without food or water, on a
peTllOuS TlSSlOT IL was Stdltu ny Tic
general commanding that the mission was
one from which probably none would re-
turn but he asked ten men to volunteer.
Sergt Sprinkle one of the ten, and
they accomplished their mission and re-
turned in safety. At another time he was
highly commended in general orders for
making trip of $50 miles over mountain
Gus country in four days and thus saving
a troop from starvation. 1t was with this
record that he was appointed to the local
police force. September /, 1890 He was
promoted to a private of class 2 on July
49, 1897. He did duty in the first precinct
at first, and there made an excellent rec
ord He was made an acting sergeant on
August II, 1898, and was assigned to the
seventh precinct. Two months from that
time be was advanced to a full sergeant
and was sent to the eighth precinct. he
went from there to the first precinct, where
he had done duty as private, and still
later was sent to the second precinct, where
he has been for the past four years Sergt.
Sprinkle has been interested In several I'M
portant cases while in the department. He
made the arrest of John w. Burley, who
was the only man in the District that has
ever been hung for the crime of rape. he
also was instrumental In capturing James
Horton, another condemned man, who was
wanted for killing the Nicholson woman
in Armory square. Since he has been in
the second precinct where intoxicants are
favorite among a large class as a beverage,
he has been especially active in the cam
paign against speakeasies and unlicensed
liquor dealers He has procured the conVlc-
ton of over thirty persons for this one Of
Tense during his service in the second pre-
cinct.
sergt. John A. Boyce.
Sergt John A. Boyce, second in the rank
of sergeants In the precinct was appointed
to the force on August 1, 1883. He was
born on June I, 1858, in New York state,
and was a soldier just previous to his ap-
pointment on the force. He served five
years in Texas on the frontier. For the
first seventeen years that he was on the
force he served In the first precinct, and
was the only one who had ever remained SO
long in the precinct, with the exception of
Lieut. Amiss For three years he was sta
toned at 9th and F streets northwest one
of the busiest corners in the city. After
that he was put at the post office and Star
building and he became a familiar figure
around that corner, and was well acquaint-
ed with the business men who passed that
point Last February his work was recog-
nized in his appointment as an acting ser
geant He was then sent to the second pre-
cinct. Last July he was made a full ser
geant. He has an excellent record of serv-
ice and has never been before the trial
board on any charges.
The latest recruit to the rank of acting