Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-06
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
YOUTHFUL PRISONER CONVICTED
AND SENTENCE SUSPENDED.
"Yeggmen" Indicted by Federal Grand
Jury-Men Under Arrest in
Baltimore-Notes.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 6, 1905.
The fourth days session of the United
States court for the eastern district of
Virginia Judge Edmund Waddill presiding.
opened this morning at 1880 o'clock with
grand and petit jurors in session. The
case of Wister Limerick Of Stafford county,
indicted for taking money from a letter
which was in his possession as mail car
rier, was disposed Of yesterday. A plea of
guilty was entered and owning to the youth
of the prisoner sentence was suspended
Limerick was represented by Attorney
Robinson Moncure.
Upon evidence presented by several detec-
tives from Baltimore and elsewhere the
grand jury reported an indictment against
John Adams, alias D. c. Jack, charged
with robbing the post office at Manassas
November 1, 1903. Of $73. An indictment
was also reported against John Smith.
alias John Butler, alias Emerson Palm,
alias Frisco Slim, charged with robbing
the post office at Orange of s523 worth of
stamps. 1t was alleged that the robbery
occurred January 1, 1901. These men are
under arrest In Baltimore. The detectives
have been employed for some time in rum
ming down a gang of "yeggmen" who have
been operating in this part of the country.
The officers believe they have evidence to
show that members of the gang have COM
'mitted robberies in banks and post offices
all along the Atlantic coast. The men
under indictment are accused of having
taken part In robberies other than those
for which this court has indicted them. 1t
is claimed that Frisco Slim" Is the pris-
oner who got out of a Virginia jail by
means which brought an investigation upon
his counsel. and caused a stir in the Vir-
ginia Bar Association
Columbia Fire Engine Company.
At the thirty fourth annual meeting of
the Columbia Steam Fire Engine Company
held in the engine house on st. Asaph
street Wednesday night, the following off,
GERS were elected for the ensuing year: w.
A. Smoot, president; Georbe Uhler first vice
president; w. X. Griffith, second vice presi-
dent; N. c. Treakle, recording secretary;
Charles Herbert, assistant secretary; Ed
ward Hughes, treasurer; ]. Frank Pettey.
foreman; John w. Travers, commander OF
hose; John Ennis, first assistant comman-
ant commander of hose; William Webster,
Henry Murray, Hiram Sutton, L. Mellen,
r. Smith and E. Mansfield. pipemen; James
Treakle and Edward Lawler, axmen; H. e.
Phillips, William Bradley, Clarence TIGER,
d. Lunsford. Charles Steele. William Lyons
and N. Hogan, hosemen; George Uhler, c.
w. Duffey and e. 8. Leadbeater, executive
committee; F. L. Entwisle. N. C. Treakle.
engine.
General Notes.
The Savings Mutual Building and Loan
Association has elected the following OFF,
GERS for the ensuing year: M. B. Harlow,
president; Peter Aitcheson, vice president;
Edward ]. Fleming. secretary; Ross T. Ell
lott. treasurer, and the following directors:
M. B. Harlow, w. NJ Reardon, w. H. p.
Kelley. Samuel Bendheim. F. ]. Fannon and
Peter Atcheson.
A colonial tea" will be given this evening
by Mount Vernon Chapter, Daughters OF
the American Revolution, at the residence
of Mrs. A. D. Brockett on North Washing
ton street The chapter is interested in
raising funds for one of the columns of the
continental memorial hall to be erected by
the society In Washington. and the func-
tion this evening might properly be termed
a "silver tea" Several young ladies of this
city win assist the members of the chapter
In entertaining. The evening is the ami