Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-30

versity Hospital this morning to see the
wounded man, but his condition was such
that the surgeons did not want him dis
turbed. On her way home the young
woman saw a colored man working In
ditch near the north end of the Audeduct
bridge who resembled her assallant.
He sort of smiled at me- Miss Weiss
declared. and then he seemed shocked.
He pulled his hat down over his eyes as
if he wanted to hide from me, and l had
him arrested
Establishes an Alibi
Policeman Hall placed the colored man
in question under arrest and sent him to
the Georgetown police station. He gave
his name as Cation Hatton. his age as
tWenty-four years. and said he resides in
Rosslyn. After he was locked up the
policeman made an investigation and ascer-
tanned that his story of his whereabouts
yesterday was correct. Harron worked as
fireman in a brickyard in Virginia from
> o'clock yesterday afternoon until TINS
morning.
Miss Wsiss told a Star reporter today
that she ard Mir. Mullen were engaged to
be married, having made arrangements to
have the ceremony performed the loth OF
this month.
Put" she said. they tell me he is
dangerously wounded. and will die SO
suppose we won't get married.
Miss Weiss denied that she had said she
was seated upon a log in the woods when
the colcTed man made the attack on the
couple. They We're walking along the road
she declared, and knew nothing of the
presence of the man until he struck her
escort with the club. The young woman
was not certain that Mr.. Mullen saw the
colored man. but she says she got good
look at him and is positive she can iden-
tfy nm. She was asked to the identity
of the man whose arrest she caused this
morning, and she said he looked very much
like her aSsaiant.
IF | could only hear the voice again l
could tell it," she said, ''as he talked very
much like a woman"
Miss Weiss Sees Prisoner.
Cation Harron was at the seventh
precinct police station late this afternoon
by Miss Weiss.
He looks like and talks like the man
who committed the assault" she declared.
Harron set up an alibi, and Common
wealth Attorney Mackey took a statement
from him with the intention of Investigating
TO learn his whereabouts at the tims the
assault is alleged to have been committed.
The police say that Harron recently COM
p!eted serving a term OF eighteen months in
the penitentiary at Richmond for assault
ing Leila Williams about two years
ago, by stabbing her in the head, while in
the road near the scene of the affair yes
terday. The Williams woman at the time
was employed by Mr.. Mackey's family.
Statement by Mullen.
Ernest l.. Mullen, a brother of j. w.
Mullen, stated to Star reporter today
that he had visited his brother at the hos
pital last night, and that he stated that
it not colored man who had as
saulted him. but white man.
My brother told me short time ago
that Miss Weiss father had told him to
stay away from his house, and that on
one occasion he had chased him with a
Weiss the latter did not the woods,
and that he would remain in them just
as long he liked. When l asked him
who had shot him he said he did not
know the mans name but he was "a white
man who weighed about 200 pounds, and
that he thought he was a married brother
of Miss Weiss who resides in Southwest
Washington.
He also said he walking along
with Miss Weiss when he heard a sound
behind him, and turned just in time to
receive blow on the head with club
about five feet long. He arose to his feet
and started to run, but the shot him
in the mouth, and when He fell again
the man fired two more shots at him, but
they went wild. He then came over to
my brother, and, with oath. shot him
in the hip. My brother said that he
though it best to lay still and pretend that
he was dead. and as soon as the man had
gotten some distance away he managed
to crawl from the woods"
Operation This Afternoon.
Emile Weiss, brother who was placed
under arrest last evening by the police, was
released from custody this morning, it
was not believed that he knew anything
of the shooting affair in which his sister
and Mullen figured late last evening. Ac-
cording to the police the young man while
going down Rhode Island avenue last even
ing made a mistake and went into house
near where he is stopping. The occupants,
when they heard an intruder prowling
about the front entrance to the basement of
the residence, called the police, who paced
young Weiss under arrest.
Later it was developed that ne was a
brother of Miss Weiss, who, it is alleged
was assaulted earlier in the evening.
1t was stated at the Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital at noon today that the
surgeons would operate upon Mullen at
1 o'clock. but at o'clock 1t was an
nounced that the operation would prob
ably be performed at ) o'clock. No rea-
son was given by the surgeons for the
pOstponement.