Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-26

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He left Washington at 1890 With Maui
pin and party and went to Lee street
with them. H did not see Curtin that
night but saw Ed. Padgett in Eva
Bakers. Did not see either Meeks 81
Foster. but recognized Leroy Beach's
voice on the street when the row took
Mace. He said one of his companions
remarked that there WAS going TO be
trouble and they left the neigboorhood.
James German was then called. He
said he was not on Lee street Saturday
night. December %, and did not know
George Curtia.
Pauline Muller then took the stand. she
denied that the police whistle was blown
at her house. ~ had been testified, but
said that she was sick in bed at the time.
She also said that if disturbance took
place outside Of her house she did not
hear it.
A youth named Gordon Boothe who
boards on north Lee street, said he saw
Curtin. Meeks AMI Foster in Mamie
Woods house. There was another man
with them but he did not notice him.
| About ] 20 r. m he saw 'oster trying
TO get Curtin to go home from the cor
ner OF Union and Queen streets. lie
J said a heavy set man came along and
| advised Foster to let Curtin alone, AS he
could do nothing with him. Boothe
then testified that he saw German that
night on Lee street aud that ust before
ne entered the court room German had
asked him to testify that he Thought
| he saw him.
German was recalled and confronted
by Boothe Each stuck TO his story,
Boolhe claiming that ,iorman said I'll
they ask you il you saw me tell them
Won think So" Gormrn denied having
told BoOthe to do so.
Eva Baker said Curtin was in her
house the night of December 70 with
MeeEs, but she could not identity Foster.
This. she said, was about 2 O'Clock.
She closed her house then. About hall
an hour before that Curtin had 10 d her
that he hqd plenty of money. James
German was MOI in her house that night
but she saw him Oh the street IN front.
| LeRov Beach had come 10 her house,
she said, about midnight, and asked for
Joe Mills, bat did not come in.
Nav Havenner was an inmate OF Eva
Bakers house at the time Curtin dlssp-
pearel. She saw Curlin in the house
the night of December %, but did not
see the men with him. Curtin had
ask ed her to play the piano between 80
and 2 o'clock but Eva Baker wOnld not
ALLOW her to do so. Curtin's friends
were then outside the house.
Harry Beach. brother to LeRoy
Beach. said he did not know Curtin. lie
wss with German the night Of Decem-
Der % but LET: him a: King and Royal
streets at $50. He denied being with
German on Lee street at 1890 that
night.
Mr.. Brent asked him if his brother
had had any conversation with him IN
| reference to what he should say on u q
stand. He admitted talking to his
brother about 10 minutes before but de-
clared that he had forgotten VII his
brother had told him.
Mary Belmont, of 800 north Lee
street, heard the police whistle and let
LEROY Beach out of the house at his
request. The hour was late but she
couldn't fix it exactly. She could not
remember seeing Meeks or Foster that
night and had not seen Curtin since a
week or ten days before Christmas.
Salie Porter was then called. She
said she lived in Pauline Miller's house
but did not hesr the police whistle the
night OF December %, nor could she re-
member the names OF any OF the men
who we're in the house that night.
| Kingston Radcliffe knew Curtin by
sight. but did not see him the night in
question. He said he was drinking and
may have had a disturbance, but could
not recollect it. lie Roy Beach, he
said. had since told him'that Meeks was
going to beat him and that he, Beach,
had taken his part.
Policeman Lyles testified that he and
Jones saw German and Harry Beach
going to Lee street shortly before a raio
on an alleged poker room.
William Ketlin, jr., denied that ht
had ever said that he had seen certain
people washing blood from an ark He
said he had been on The ark since las
summer.
| Paul Schlichting said that Ketlin hat
| told him that he had heard" that people
were seen washing blood from the ark
Ketlin was recalled aud said that h
didn't remember having made such
remarkto Schichting.
| Wash Jackson, colored, the prOprie
tor of the Old Virginia House, testified
that Meeks looked like a man who wa
| in his house between and 4 O'Clock
Sunday morning with q young mai
named Elmer Nigtingill and you'll
named Hicks and Marks. They toos
lodging and stayed until . O'Clock or
little latter.
Policeman Jones testified that rs h
was coming up the Steps at the polio
station during todsy's hearing ne hear
LEROY Beach tell Harry Beach to So
that he did not see James German Of
Lee street December %.
Harry Beach was then recalled, bu
be denied the charge made by the officer
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