Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
Daniel Hinton Held for Death
of Milford M. Carter.
PRISONER DENIES CHARGE
Identifed.by Woman Who Witness
ed the Assault.
INVESTIGATION OF ALIBI
No Motive for Attack Discovered.
Skull Was Fractured-Injury
Necessarily Fatal.

Daniel Hinton colored. thirty years of
age. residing at 2O4 street northwest,
was the first suspect placed in arrest in
connection with the alleged murder of
MILFORD Nj. Carter. colored. whose death
occurred at the Emergency Hospital yes
terday afternoon about ten hours after
he had been struck on the head with a
picket broken from a fence. Hinton de-
clares he knows nothing of the assault.
He was identified this afternoon by Mrs.
Lille Fade as the assailant of Carter.
Detectives Baur Cornwell. OBrien and
Parham were assigned to the case BY In
spector Boardman and they spent most of
the night searching for a clue to the iden-
tity of the assalant of Carter. The body
was removed yesterday afternoon from
the Emergency Hospital to the morgue,
where an autopsy was performed this
morning by Deputy Coroner Glazebrook.
He found that Carriers skull had been
fractured, the injury being necessarily
fatal.
The detectives this morning renewed the
investigation, Capt. Byrnes. Precinct De-
tective Armstrong and the police of the
sixth precinct participating. A number
of colored friends of the deceased, in
Guiding former Detective Lacy, were at
police Headquarters this morning to as
sst in, the effort to effect the arrest of
the alleged murderer. Lille Fade, the
colored woman who was with Carter at
the time he was assaulted. was detained
last night by the detectives is a witness.
She was taken to headquarters this morn
ing where she conferred with the de-
tectives and others interested in the case.
Story of Alleged Assault.
The statement of the Fade woman was
merely repetition of what she said yes
terday afternoon She said she attended
a dance given by an organization Of col
ored bartenders at a hall in the southeast
section Of the city and left there with
Carter. They boarded the car that left
the eastern terminus of the Capital Trac-
| ton line at o'clock yesterday morning
| and rode as far as Pennsylvania avenue
and Sd street. They were in front of the
Brunswick Hotel, street between I'd
and Sd streets, when a stranger appeared
and struck Carter with what the woman
thought was a base ball bat.
After he fell" the woman stated. "the
man struck him two or three times
|, Carriers assailant, she declared, went
east on B street and disappeared around
! the corner Of I'd street. The woman said
to the police that she went in search of q
policeman instead of screaming or max
ing an outcry. Policeman Beckett was
found and conducted to the injured man.
Policeman Boswell joined the party at
Pennsylvania avenue and Sd street, where
Carter was detained until the arrival of
the ambulance from the Emergency Hos
pital. While waiting for the ambulance
Carter told the police that die had not
been assaulted, and urged them to pay no
attention to what the woman said.
Blow Without Provocation.
After Carter was removed to the hos
pital no more attention was paid to the
affair by the police until in the afternoon.
when it was realized that the patient
declares that the man VINO inflicted the
blow had no trouble with Carter before he
struck him.
MILFORD Carter was well known to men,
bers of the colored bartenders' organiza-
ton and OF colored clubs. He was secre-
tary of the organization and had also
been employed as porter on the private
car of the vice president of the Southern
railway. Lille Fade, the woman who
was with him yesterday morning. Is mar
ried. but is separated from her husband.
tives he had no idea of the Identity Of
the assailant of Carter.
Hinton, after being identified this after
noon. entered an emphatic denial and
made an effort to account for his where
abouts about the time the assault was
committed. He said he was at the dance
and admitted that he INDUCED in strong
drink. The detectives this afternoon are
investigating the alibi set up by the
prisoner. Hinton and Carter, it is stated
were friends, and the prisoner denies that
he had any grievance against the latter.
1t was stated this afternoon that no
motive for the attack had been shown