The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-09-30
SHOOTING OF MULLEN
BATTLING TO POLICE
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While Crandal Mackey. the common
wealth attorney for Alexandria county.
said today that he had every reason to
Believe the girl had told a straight
story. the county officials are working
o. the theory that some member of
the Weiss family knows who did the
shooting.
It is this conflict Of theories that IS
adding to the puzzling phases of the
case
Miss Weiss Able to Be Up.
Miss Weiss was still in a highly nerv-
Gus state this morning. but was able
to get up late in the day and 20 over
to the Georgetown University Hospital
with her mother and try to see the
man she was to have married on the
18th Of this month, after several post
ponements. The authorities at the hos
piiai were compelled to deny her adj
mittsnce on account OF the weakened
state Of the patient, who, after spend-
iDg restless night, had Just become
9 9'il She waited at the hospital for
over an hour, and was compelled 10
ledVe III order that she might 10 down
20 the Seventh precinct station and
mere try 10 Identify the negro who at
As Miss Weiss was leaving the hosnJtal
and just as she was beginrfnp, To Cross
Aquecuct bridge she noticed a coIored
man working on the street digging a
oltch TOT gas pipe. She was first
atIrdcteo by the strange action OF the
i Ian as ne looked at her and began
laughing. The negro pulled his can
down over his face and it was then
that she thought he may be the man
VINO committed the assault Calling An
oIlcer she had him arrested and he was
SAiIIeu 10 uhe seventh precinct station
Miss Weiss Story.
We had spent a pleasant dav an the
Zoo" said Miss Weiss In discussing her
experience Of yesterday. "and returning
we sat down TO rest when we reached
Dead Mans Hollow L would have
sofEo on home Immediately but I knew
that my mother and brothers Objected
10 the attentions that Mr.. LIuIlen was
showing me and 70 avoid them seeing
US together we went out and sat down
n the woods.
we hadn't been there but very few
minutes before a man rushed out OF
me woods and struck Mr.. Mullen with a
heavy hickory stick He fell To the
ground Immediately and called 10 me ~
run. ABOUT that time heard the Distol
SHOTS, and L thought he was killed he
lay so still. I was almost paralvzed
Win night, but managed to get UP and
run but hadn't gone over 100 yards
before felt the big hands OF the negro
the ground"
il was three-quarters Of an hour after
this that The girl was finally able 10
make her way from the woods 10 the
nome % MI Mackey, who lives next TO
her- She was completely exhausted
III ~ was some time before she had
10 L.
A posse was formed Immediately OF
Soont nifty men, headed by Sheriff ".
n. Palmer and his deputies, Edward
Nelght and H 3. Field. who began a
systematic search of the woods In a
Few minutes they met I'D with PbfliD
sewers, who lives In Georgetown and /
who had heard the shots while sitting
on the porch Of his residence
Bradley Arrested.
Thinking it strange that shooting
should be heard In Virginia on Sunday |
he decided to walk over the Aor educt |
bridge aud see II there had been any
trouble. He Gays he didn't coma i'm /
mediately. but waited for some little
time and that it was about an hour
after the shooting that he reached the /
virginia end Of the bridge and that # /
was there that he met negro answer
Ing 90 the description given bv Miss 4
weiss Immediately the Washington
police were notified and shortly after /
ward George Bradley was arrested a 3
the man whom Mr.. Bowers hars mot
coming across the bridge
TIE brother of Miss Weiss was Az
rested last night in the vestfbule of The i
Dr. w. y. Hudson residence, SIG Nine
teentE street northwest, in an intoxf- 4
Gated condition and from The nature OF /
the answers he gave 20 questions put 4
&c MIN by the police they suruised that i
ne probably knew something Of the Iden-
THY OF the man who did the shooting
but he was able to prove a couDIefe L
aiioi. he works az a French restaurant
ana spent the whole day there. accOrd-
ing 10 the statement OF the Proprietor
Theory Of Mr.. Mackey.
Mr.. Mackey, Commemorative attor-
ney for Alexandra county. who lives
next to the Weisses at Rosslyn. did not
credit the police theory that the sl1oot-
ing was done by a member OF the girls
family.
Miss Weiss h2s told the same story 1
over and over again, although 1 cross
questioned her closely. and Il IS not
probable that she could have made Up a =
story every detail of which has GORE
sponded with the facts as they have /
come to light" said Mr.. Mackey this
In my opinion. her story Is
correct from beginning to end, and we /
will try and solve the mystery from her /
version of the affair"
THE PATCH TOLD THE TALE.