Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-15
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
TWO MEN ARRESTED IN CURTIN
MURDER CASE.

special Correspondence OF Inc Star.
ALEXANDRIA,. Va, January Is. 1905
Warrants were sworn out this morning
before Police Justice Harry B. Cation by
Commemorative Attorney Samuel G. Brent
against Harry Meeks and Herbert Foster,
both residents of this city, charging them
with being connected with the murder of
George r. Curtin on the morning of Decem
Der "a. The warrants were issued about
$3.50 o'clock this morning. and at IL o'clock
the men had been taken into custody and
lodged I'm cells at the station house by
Lieut.. Smith and Policeman Ferguson.
There has been no effort to obtain their
release on bail. and it was stated that bail
would not be accepted. They will be given
a preliminary hearing in the police court
tomorrow morning before Justice Cation.
Curtin was last seen alive with the two
suspects about 3 o'clock on the morning
of December "A, going In the direction of
the river, where his body was found float
ing in the dock with the neck broken last
Monday morning. The discovery was made
by some rivermen. who were searching for
lost anchor. He had about $500 with him
the night before his disappearance, but
when found was entirely destitute of any
thing save his underclothing.
Held on Serious Charge.
James MINI. alias Riverside" colored
youth about twenty years of age, was
rested in this city last night by Officer
Roberts on the charge of attempting to
commit criminal assault upon Annie
Thompson, the ten-year-old daughter of
Mr.. John Thompson, an employee of the
Potomac Brick Company, at Brick Haven
1t is alleged that as the little girl was on
her way home from school Friday after
noon she was approached by MINI, who
made an insulting remark to her and at
tempted to shove her down 4 ditch When
seen in a cell at the station house this
morning MINI admitted having made the
remark but said that he told her 1t was
a message from some other person. and
that she had better tell her mother about
1t. He denies having touched her at ALL
He said he was at his home, in Addison
last night when the father of the little girl
entered and kicked and thrashed him
soundly, saying that he would kill him If
he saw him around there again. He says
he came to this city to get out of the way
of Mr.. Thompson. The prisoner was turned
over to Constable Cornell of Alexandria
county, who took him to the county Jail
this morning.
Miss Smoot on the Stand.
The hearing of the Snoot will case was
continued before Judge L. C. Barley in the
Corporation Court this morning. Miss Ella
Rose Smoot. the contestant, was put on the
stand at 10 o'clock. Her testimony con-
sisted in the recital of the contents of nu-
iiiciouS lSttSIS written TO her mother dDy
her sister, Mrs. Jones, and her brother-in-
law, Rev. w. Strother Jones' in which the
witness endeavored to show that undue in
huence had been eXerted upon her mother
IN the drawing of her will, whereby Mr.
ana Mrs. Jones profited at her expensp She
also stated that her mothers mind had
been affected by the death of her brother
ana that she had never recovered from the
shock. In one of the letters she said her
sister had referred to her as being stmnle-
minded and said she f,a
any provision her mother chose to ma ke for
her. The; case will probably occupy the at
tentlon OF the court for several days
Police Court Affairs.
In the police court this morning. with
justice Harry b. Cation presiding, Charles
bach' samuel Hanyon and Ollie Ericsson
sailors from vessel lying at one of the
Wharves here, were charged with enga ging
IN general fight on the corner of Cameron
ana Lee streets. According to an eye-Wit-
ness OF the affair they Were mixing 1t up,
pretty lively, when the performance was
cut short by the arrival of Policemen Hem
derson and Roberts, who put them under
arrest. They tried to explain to Iustica
Cation that they We're only playing. but
he cut them short with a verdict of IS
each.
Funerals Yesterday.
Funeral services over the remains Of
Philip IL. Vogelgesang. whose death &C.
Cured at Springfield Ohio, where he had
lived for several years, were held yester-
day afternoon at O'Clock by Rev. p. P.
Phillips, rector of st. PauFs Episcopal
Church. The body was met at the new
union depot by the Alexandria Washington
Lodge OF Masons and was escorted to the
family lot in st. PaufS cemetery, where it
was inferred with Masonic hunors The
pallbearers Were members of the Alex
andria- Washington Lodge. Mr. Vogelge-
sang was seventy-four years old, and had
formerly lived in this city, where he con-
Quoted a bakery for many years
The funeral of Mr.. Noble T. Johnsbp was
held yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock from
his late residence, POT Queen street Bey.
Dr. w. F. Fisher. pastor of the First Ba D.
fist Church, conducted the services and the
interment was made in the Methodist Prot
estant cemetery.