Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-19
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
ARREST MADE IN CONNECTION
WITH SHOOTING ARRAY.
Death Of Judge Thomas W. Brown
Police Commissioners Hold Star
Chamber Session.
Special Correspondence of The Star.


| ALEXANDRIA. Va, July 10. 1906.
Edward Tate. colored. was arrested yes
terday afternoon by Policemen Bell and
Lyles on the charge of shooting John Lewis.
also colored. during a row which took place
in a saloon in the northern section OF the
city at early hour Sunday morning.
The information leading TO the arrest OF
Tate was furnished to the police yesterday
afternoon by Charles Phillips, colored, who
had been arrested on Monday on the charge
of being accessory to the shooting and
who was committed to jail. as he ct first
denied any knowledge of the affair. Po-
licemen Bell and Lyles yesterday went to
the Jail. when Phillips finally made a state
ment tending to implicate Tate. who was
shortly thereafter arrested on the charge
Tate, when first taken ipto custody, refused
to talk about the shooting. but this morning
he is said to have made a statement to the
police throwing light on the trouble. The
negro who was shot was painfully injured,
but is now said to be out of danger.
Tate will be arraigned OH the charge in
the police court tomorrow morning. He will
be represented by State Senator Lewis H.
Machen.
Death of Judge Brown.
Judge Thomas W. Brown. member of the
bar of Memphis. Tenn, died yesterday
morning at the residence of his son-in-law.
Mr.. George b. Martin, in Prince George
county, Md. where he had been visiting
for the summer Judge Brown was sew
enty-nine years of age. The remains will
be brought to this city this evening and
forwarded to Memphis for burial.
Charles Lyles, a carpenter, died Scster-
day at his residence at GIG Duke street
The deceased was fifty-five years OF age
A wife and several childrn survive him.
The arrangements for the funeral will be
completed later
Mrs. Alcinda j. Driscoll widow of c. NJ
Driscoll. died yesterday at her home on
South Fairfax street, in the sixty-eighth
year of her age.
Dorothy, an infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs, Jacob Shertzer OF Hayiield Fairfax
county died this morning at the residence
of its parents.
Boy Charged With Theft.
Murdoch Brown. a thirteen-year-old col
ored boy, was arrested last night by Chief
Goods and Policeman Roberts on the charge
of stealing s5067 from Margaret Taylor,
his aunt The complaint leading to the ar
rest was made by Mr.. Frederick Ayers, who
noticed the boy In his store with four SO
bills in his possession. During the trial In
the police court this morning his mother
and aunt appeared and asked Justice Moore
TO show leniency. Justice Moore reserved
his decision until he could communicate
with Commemorative Attorney Brent
John Hughes was charged with assault
ing and beating James Dodd yesterday af-
ternoon. 1t was testified that the two men
were working together and that an alterca-
ton arose between them, when Hughes
struck Dodd several blows over the eve.
Hughes was fined IS.
General News Items.
AT a meeting of the Reliance Fire Com
pany held Tuesday night Mr.. Allen T..
Thompson was elected vice president of the
company and Messrs. A. D. Grimes and w.
M. Glasgow were chosen delegates to the
state firemen's convention, to be held in
Richmond August %. Messrs. C. E. Pettey
and w. H. Bontz, jr., were elected al
ternates.
In the corporation court yesterday Judge
Louis c. Barley. presiding, in the case of
y. M. Newbold, jr., against the Capital City
Telephone Company, decree was entered
sustaining the demurrer. In the case of r.
H. Cox, administrator of Alphonse Pomen-
OTTO. against the Southern Railway Com
pany, a suit for damages, the jury re-
turned a verdict of $50 for the plaintiff,
A called meeting of the board of police
commissioners was held last night in the
mayors office, but the commissioners re-
proceedings.
Richard Pines, colored, fell at the old
fair grounds yesterday afternoon while
playing bese ball, and fractured his leg.
He taken to the Alexandria Hospital
for treatment.
Arrangements have been made by the
officers of the Alexandria Light Infantry for
holding a carnival at the fair grounds from
July 80 to August 4.