Evening star., 1908-01-30
PLEADS FOR HIS LIFE
Mrs. Buggie-Ward's Assailant
Fears Summary Punishment.
TAKEN TO BALTIMORE JAIL
Held Under Guard at Home of
Sheriff's Friend.
CITIZENS THREATEN TO LYNCH
Woman Who Was Attacked Offers to
Furnish Rope for the
Hanging.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

| special from stan correspondent.
! OWINGS, Md, January so. 1%lS.
Spare my life,'' was the plea of the
colored assaiiant of Mrs. Mary Buggte-
| Ward when he reached Mount Harmony
yesterday afternoon to be given a pre-
! liminary examination Mrs. Ward ex-
planned regarding the change in her name.
| She said she had married Patrick Ward
| after the death of her first husband, al
/ though she preferred to be known to her
| friends and neighbors as Mrs. Buggie.
The prisoner also made an explanation
regarding his name, admitting it was
Arthur Rand and that he had assumed
the name of John Horton and later of
John Harden after his escape from a
! North Carolina prison. .
The hearing was held and he was COM
| mitted, without bond, to the custody OF
Sheriff Mead to be taken to Baltimore
and placed in Jail for safe keeping Those
who were present at the hearing were
outspoken upon the question of taking
the law in their own hands and Sheriff
Mead was put to the test. By his cool
ness he prevented a hostile demonstrat ton
at the hearing and last night succeeded
in saving the prisoner from the wrath of
the citizens. There seemed to have been
well defined movement on the part OF
the would-be IyncherS.
Sheriff Mead outwitted those who at
tempted to follow him from Mount Har-
mony to the place where he intended TO
Keep Rand over night. Men on horse
back, it was reported. followed him TO a
point near Huntingtown and there lost
sight of him. 1t had been the intention
of the sheriff to keep the prisoner at
Chesapeake Beach over night and take
him to Baltimore this morning, but he
felt certain he would be unable to hold
nriSnnpr there no
for him to change his plans. and he had
the prisoner cared for in the house of d
friend at Huntingtown.
Guards Sworn In.
Four guards were sworn in and tele-
phonic communication at that place was
cut off. Those who had attempted to
follow the sheriff believed he had gone to
Holland. Cliff, and thought he would cross
the Patuxent river and make his way to
the Pope Creek railroad at Waldorf lie
therefore started from Huntingtown with
the prisoner and walked with him all the
way to Chesapeake Beach. They reached
there shortly before 6 o'clock and boarded
the train going to Baltimore by way of
Hyattsville. Word was received here
later In the day that Rand had been
lodged in the Baltimore Jail.
NO enort was made by residents of the
county to conceal their desire to sum-
lHdTlly uedl WIN the prisoner
There has not been legal hanging
in this county for forty years" said one
of the older residents of the county this
morning, and 1t has been twenty years
since we have had Il lynching.''
The people of the county say that here
after strangers locking for work will
have to bring satisfactory credentials
with them Some of the county taxpay-
ers say they favor the establishment Of
the whipping post for such persons. and
1t was also argued by them that a vigi-
lance committee should be formed to rid
the county of undesirable citizens
While some of them were engaged in
the discussion it was reported that a
strange white man had appeared at a
house and frightened the women. A con-
stable was sent to get him, and he ar
rested the man almost directly in front
of the house in which the crime was COM
mitted last Tuesday morning.
The man had but one arm, and his ap-
parel gave him the appearance of genu-
inc hobo. His name was given as James
Maher. and he said he, had recently been
released from the Maryland house of cor
recton.
Magistrate Ward returned him to that
institution to serve three months, and he
was taken there this morning on the train.
Quick Work Effects Capture.
Had it not been for j. E Marshall. -ep-
resentative of the kingan Provision Com
pany of Baltimore, Rand tas he is now
known) would probably not have been
captured so soon-indeed, he might have
ffected his escape. There was some de-
lay in sending out information about the
crime. and when the abandoned horse the
colored man had stolen was found on the
road near Prince Fred arick some of the
people in that section took it fo- granted
the case was merely one of horse steal
ing. Nothing was known about the de-
tails of the affair, no that check for
$40 that had been given to Mrs. Ward by
Walter l.. Brown. Washington commits
sion merchant. had been stolen.
Mr.. Marshall had driven over the road
from this place, however. and 70 tunately
he had heard of the check incident. When
he reached BarstoW and stopped at the
store of G. Frank Hardisty he was told
that colored man had called there and
tried to get check or $40 cashed
He must be the man who committed
the assault and took the check from Mrs