Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01


| The unidentified body of a drowned man
| was found In the river a short distance
| above Georgetown. Julius Marshall, four
| teen years of age, died the last day of the
| month of July from tetanus, the result of
| running nail through his foot.
Four persons lost their lives by drowning
/ In August, namely: William Pitts, Daniel
| White, John B. Kennedy and Paul Mason.
| Early in the month Thomas Baugham, a
| railway mail clerk, shot himself through
| the heart. John Grigsby, seventy eight
years of age, Georgetown. fed down a
| flight of stairs in his home and his neck
was broken Arthur b. Marshall was
crushed while trying to board a freight
! train. James Terry, a Tennessee soldier
was struck by Capital Traction car and
Killed. Nicotine poison was responsible for
| the death of William Stancil Burton.
Boney jackson. colored. died from the eff
fects OF a bullet wound received in Nir-
g1nla. Joseph Wright colored, was charged
| with firing the fatal shot. He is now under
sentence of death for having committed
criminal assault upon Miss Mabel Ris-
! ley, near Four mile Run. James D. Wilson,
| home, 1929 Park road. William L. Stick
ley, an engineer, fell from his engine near
| Four-mile Run and his death resulted at
the Emergency Hospital.
| In September William E. Clark, eighteen
| years of age, shot himself in the head
William H. Walters fell overheard on the
Virginia side of the river near Aqueduct
| bridge. An unidentified white man was killed
| on the Eastern Branch bridge by railroad
| train. Hugh S. Murphy, a railroad en-
| gineer, was killed by the overturning of his
engine near Maryland avenue and 9th street
| southwest. The thirteenth day of the
month Lucy Dodge, seventeen years of
age, was shot and killed by an Italian
named Joseph Paolucchi. who was insane.y
| jealous Of her. Paolucchi attempted sui
! eide, but did not succeed Frank EXum.
colored hodcarrier was run over and
killed by a Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon car on 18th street Frank
Lyons. small colored boy, was on the
marsh at Benning the 10th of the month
and, when he moved gunner fired shot,
the shot taking effect in the head of the
| boy. Mervin ]. Bollinger, a railroad brake
man, and Daniel Frazier. a laborer, were
victims of railroad accidents. Peter Hen
derson fell from his wagon and broke his
neck. Elmer Graves, small boy, lost his
life in the lake at the Industrial Home
School. Christopher Furst, fifty-four years
of age, ended his life by swallowing q dose
of strychnine at his home, 1916 Franklin
street northeast.
An unidentified colored man was killed
by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Ivy
City.
Richard Hyde, a railroad brakeman, was
crushed between cars October 3. Two days
later the remains of an unidentified colored
infant were found in an alley near 18th and
S streets, the throat having been cut. The
murderer of the infant was not apprehend-
ed. Mary Agnes Smith, twenty-one years
of age received fatal burns while prepar
ing breakfast at her home on H street
northeast A horse ran away and threw
Edward Hurdle, a timer, over an embank-
ment. causing fatal Injuries. Mrs. Julia
Naomi Rowzee was burned to death. Her
husband was killed in a runaway accident
in June. William Fl. Stewart, colored,
forty Eight years of age, was struck on his
head with brick during saloon row.
Joseph Cannon was held responsible for his
death Five days later William McKim
Miles, who lived at 800 9th street southwest.
died at the Emergency Hospital. his death
being due to a hemorrhage following a stab
wound of the abdomen.
Randall Webb Elliott twenty-one years
Of age, inhaled gas and died early in No
vember. Leopold Lammfromm. a cigar
maker from Germany, chose the same
means of ending his life later in the month.
William Hennins, who was respondent
because of illness, took his life by using
carbolic acid. The fourth man to end his
life during the month was John Henry
Strickhart, a car inspector, who used a
rope and was found hanging in his room at
the home of his aunt. s12 Delaware ave
enty-nine years of age. fell down the steps
at her home and sustained fatal injuries.
George Javins fell overheard into the
James Creek canal and was drowned. An
unidentified man was decapitated by
railroad train in the subway in South
Washington. Mrs. S. A. Bussard, sixty
four years of age, died at the George
Washington University Hospital from teta-
nus resulting from an injury to her
finger. John Carter, twenty-one years of
age, was struck by railroad train near
Germantown, Nd, and died at the Casualty
Hospital. A horse kicked William Dyson,
colored. Kenney HILL colored fireman
received fatal injuries by being caught in
an elevator at the New Willard. Bertha
Bowie, fifteen years of age, died from lock-
jaw following an injury to a finger Alo-
ysius Dudley, colored, four years of age,
died at the Children's Hospital about the
last of the month from burns.
Henson Dowell, colored, was the first vic
tim of an accident during the last month
of the year. He had fit and fell into the
waters of Rock creek, drowning before as
sistance could be summoned. Charles D.
Mckimmie, twenty-five years of age,
struck by street car on Brightwood ave-
nue.. His body was removed to the morgue
and friends claimed that he had been muir
dered and his body placed upon the tracks.
The death of Mrs. Mary A. O'Hare was due
to an overdose of opium. Giovanni Adrian,
an Italian. was run over by a railroad
train and killed. Henry E. Trip was
thrown to the floor Of shop when his
cost caught in the machinery and sustained
a fracture of the skull, from which
he later died. Former Senator Arthur
NJ. Brown, who was shot by Mrs.
gency Hospital, and the woman who killed
him was committed to Jail to await the
action Of the grand jury. While serving a
workhouse sentence for assault Benjamin
Hall. colored. was run over by dirt cart
and killed. Mrs. Annie A. Fossum, while
at the home Of her mother, 2l25 Montello
avenue, drank quantity of carbolic acid
thinking it was whisky. George Washing
ton, colored, ten years of age, fell from an
elevator in a store It'll street and re-
ceived fatal injuries. lola Frazier, col
ored. sixteen years of age received an in
jury to his foot on Rock Creek road and
tetanus developed. He died at his home
The coroners jury held John Ellis, col
ored, responsible for the death Of Andrew
Silvey. who was stabbed through the lung
in saloon near the Baltimore and Ohio de-
pot. An elderly colored man named Miles
Hawkins was run over and fatally injured
by an electric express wagon. William ].
Barry, laborer, was accidentally asphyX-
lated in his room at his home, 2521 H street
northwest Marvin Phillips, an apprentice,
received fatal burns while working in a
shop in Georgetown. Raymond Thompson
"a baker committed suicide by inhaling illu-
minating gas. Hugh L. Apple was struck
by street car at 14th and Chaplin streets
the night of December "a, and his death
occurred at Garfield Hospital. Christmas
morning colored boy named Samuel West
was run over and killed by a big touring
car belonging to Joe Letter John j. Reed,
f1fty-eight years of age, committed suicide
the 18th of the month by shooting himself
in the head and breast. Arthur Chamber
lain was struck by trolley car December
Is and died December 80. Otto Schlling
of I'D C street northwest nj ala