Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-21

| night. He had no trouble while in thu
saloon. the police were told, but was fol
| lowed from there by tall colored man
The man was not we'll known in that sec.
ton, 1t was stated, although his name
was learned. 1t is said that a coioreC
man answering the description of the one
mentioned had been in saloon in South
Washington last night and had attempt.
ed 10 steal ham, but was. una BILE to gel
away with it,
Miss May Kirby said she was satisfied
the motive of her fathers slayer was moi
robbery, although, she said, she was un.
able to form any definite conclusion or
that point. She knew her father had
money in his pockets, but nothing was
found to indicate that an effort had been
made to take 1t from him. Had robbery
oeen the assailant'S motive, she said. he
would hardly have had time to commit
IL. as she reached the room almost i'm
mediately after she heard the noise OF
the fall
General Lookout Order.
Capt. Mulhall issued a general lookout
order this afternoon. telling the police to
make every effort to find a colored man
named Frank Thomas, the. message con-
tanning a description of a colored man
more than six feet in height. There are
several colored men in South Washing
ton named Frank Thomas. the police say,
and it is the tallest of them who il
wanted.
while l am having the men follow
every clue" said Capt. Mulhali this after
noon. land the men are looking for Frank
Thomas. cOlOred, l. don't believe colored
man had anything to do with the killing
l cannot believe otherwise than that some
relatives of the deceased are in a posi-
tiOn to give us more information about
the case than they have already done
Here we have a man fatally assaulted
at midnight" the captain added. His
family knew of It, but the first we hear
OF it is when the superintendent of the
mOrgue tells of his death at the hospital
His relatives are questioned. and they
said it was none of their business, and
wanted to know what they had to do
with it,.
Mr.. Madden told the police that Kirbv
was in his saloon, 9Th and X streets south
west. shortly before midnight and had ono
drink. There was nobody with him. Per-
sons who were in the saloon last night
told the police they. saw tall colored
man follow Kirby
Miss May Kirby said her father told her
he had been assaulted by man big
enough to have picked him up and thrown
him down. saying he was about five feet
two inches tall but she thought he meant
six feet.
Misses Kirby at Headquarters.
The Misses Kirby were summoned to
police headquarters%this afternoon. They
were taken before Inspector Boardman
separately and questioned. Inspector
Boardman listened to their accounts of
what had happened and they departed
"A. W.Leake. member of Local Union
No. IT, International Association of Sta
tionary and Hosting Engineers. with
which Kirby was connected. said that the
deceased was present at meeting of
the union last evening in Costellos Hall,
9th and g streets.
He left the meeting, according to Mr.
Leake. about $50 O'CLOCK. saying that he
was going heme. The meeting, it is
stated. was harmonious.
AT the offices in the car barn of the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany. 18th and East Capitol streets, the
statement was made this afternoon that
Kirby. who was employed there. departed
last evening shortly after @ o'clock Be
fore he left the building he stated to the