Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-14
CARLYLE HOUSE MUMMY" DE-
CLARED TO BE A PURE FAKE.
City officials Deride Idea That Object
) is a Human Body Plaintiff
Awarded $4,000 Damages.

| see of the premises, and pronounced it gen.
| uine, has caused considerable amusement
| among the officials Of this city who made
| an examinat ton of the strange looking OBJ
| ject, and saw at once that 1t was plaster
cast which had been on exhibition for years
! in show window in the neighborhood of
| the Carlyle House.
Mayor Fred j. Paff was asked this morn
ing as to his opinion of the alleged mummy.
He said that there was absolutely no doubt
in his mind that the whole thing had been
faxed. He recounted his visit to the cellar
CT the old mansion the day after the dis
cOvery in company with Dr. Samuel B.
Moore, the city coroner; Julian Y Williams.
member of the city council; Charles Cal
lahan, the commissioner of revenue; Chief
c. T. Goods of the police force. Donald
Aitcheson and others, and said that when
he returned to police headquarters across
the street he was visited by Mr.. Simpson,
who asked him not to disclose the fact
that the mummy was fake, as he had
been under considerable amount of ex-
pense in fixing it UP. and wanted to get
some return on his investment. The idea
that the thing was anything but a fake
was very ridiculous, in Mr.. Paff's opinion.
Coroner Moore made practically the same
statement. He said he had made thor
ough examination of the figure and had cut
off one of the ears, which, he said, was I'M
doubtedly made of plaster. He also stated
that Simpson had admitted to him that he
had buried the figure himself. In regard
to the statement attributed to DIR. Hrd-
iicka, he said he could not account for it,
unless real mummy had been later Sc
cured and placed in the same position be-
fore the visit Of the Smithsonian official.
Charged With Theft
Policemen Young. Lyles, Garvey and
Gill of the Alexandria police force yester-
day afternoon arrested Jack Smith, col
ored, on suspicion of entering the dwelling
of mt oLatt on b,c
the night of November o. 1905. and stealing
therefrom a watch and other articles. The
arrest was made evidence secured by
the policemen from a pawn ticket for the
watch on a Washington pawn shop. Yes
terday the Alexandria police department
was notified that the ticket had been pre-
scented at the Washington pawn shop by
Melinda Smith, colored. who was arrested
by the Washington police and turned over
to Policeman Young of the Alexandria force.
The Smith woman was brought to this city
by Policeman Young and locked up at the
station house on the charge of being ac-
cessory to the stealing of the watch. Martha
Lewis, also colored, was arrested in con-
nection with the theft in Washington this
morning and brought to this city by Po-
liceman Banner t. Young. The accused
will be given a hearing in the police court
tomorrow morning before Justice Harry B.
Cation.
Widow Awarded $4,000.
After being out only half an hour the jury
in the circuit court of Alexandria city last
night returned verdict of $1,000 damages
against the Southern Railway Company In
the suit>of Mrs. Mary c. Hansborough. adj
ministratrix of the estate of her husband
George Hansborough, against the Southern
Railway Company. The suit was for dam
! ages in the sum of 10000 for the death of
| George Hansborough, who was killed about
nv heir locomotive
on the Southern railway.
The case was first tried in Alexandria
shortly after the accident, when the jury
awarded Mrs. Hansborough $500 damages.
An appeal was taken by the attorneys for
the railway company to the court Of ap-
peals, which remanded the case to the cir
cult court of Alexandria on a. writ or error
Attorneys Norton & Boothe appeared for
the plaintiff and Attorneys c. c. Carlin and
H. OBJ. Cooper represented the defendant
company. When the verdict was returned
Mr.. Carlin made a motion to have 1t set
aside and a new trial granted. Argument
on the motion for new trial was set for 10
o'clock tomorrow morning
General Matters.
A meeting Of the school board was held
last night in the Peabody school for the
purpose Of electing a teacher to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Kate L. Smith as a teacher in Lee school
for girls Miss jamie E. Carter Of Deco
guam. Va, was the only one to file an APP
plication for the position. and was elected,
at a salary Of s25 month.
The funeral of Hugh s. Murphy, the
Southern railway engineer who was killed
in Washington Tuesday night. took place
this morning at o'clock. The services,
which were held at st. Mary's Catholic
Church were conducted by Rev. Father
Lawrence Kelley. the assistant rector OF
the church, requiem mass being sung. The
interment was made In st. Marys ceme-
terry Messrs. Harry Brown, Gardner l..
Boothe, Richard Gibson, Thomas Fannon
Thomas Bruce and NJ. ]. Mcfarland acted
as palibearers. The floral tributes were so
numerous that they literally covered the
casket
A meeting of the male choir of st. Mary's
Catholic Church was held last night when
practice was resumed for the fall and win
ter Prof. Wells, the director Of the choir
was in charge of the practice last night
Mr. Wells will preside at the organ next
Sunday night.
The case of Benjamin Hughes against the
Washington Southern Railway Company
and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railway Company for damages on
account of alleged personal injuries sus-
tanned by the plaintiff while in the employ
of the above-named companies was yester-
day compromised by Attorneys Robinson
Moncure and John M. Johnson for the
plaintiff, and Attorney Francis L. Smith
for the railroad companies
Policeman Banner T. Young. while on
duty at the station house last night. had
his coat and badge stolen from the window
of the station house. Mr.. Young laid his
coat In the window when he returned from
his supper and shortly afterward when he
went for 1t he found that 1t was missing.
It Is thought that the coat was stolen by
some one who in passing noticed 1t hanging
from the window.
Mr.. E. E. Padgett reported to Lieut..
Smith of the police force this moraing that
small white man had entered his store
and had stolen a satchel containing several
articles of wearing apparel.
Mrs F. NJ. Delane, who has been seri-
ousIy i'll at the Alexandria Hospital, has re-
covered and returned to her home In Del
Ray.
Miss Maggie Spengier of Strasburg Is Wis
iting at the residence of Mrs. George Le-
Hugh.
NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE.