Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-22

essary and that the hearing should In
clude full investigation. not only OF the
circumstances surrounding this crime. out
also of the methods OF the asylum au-
thorities. The time has not yet been
fixed.
The coroner held a conference with
United States District Attorney d. W..
nounced that the inquest will follow the
usual course in the cases of prisoners
known to be sane. This may make nee
essary the presence of the prisoner.
The inquest will be held over the BODY
of Mrs Follin The remains will be taken
to the morgue later this afternoon.
Undertaken Nalley took charge of the
body Of Maloney. The funeral will prob
ably be held at st. Teresa's Church in
Anacostia Thursday morning and the in
terment at Mount Olivet cemetery.
Eyewitnesses of Tragedy.
Detective Evans has secured the names
of the following eyewitnesses of the
double tragedy: Dabney Fleming. a
payer of Douglas avenue, Hillsdale: Sam
uel Butler of Stanton avenue and Hamil-
ton road. DR.. Downing. dentist at ST.
Elizabeth: DR.. Alfred Glasscock. also at
st. Elizabeth; A. S. Case. electrical
Simpson. laundry worker. and David
Alexander. Othello Lee and Harry Fleet.
"trusty" patients. who were working in
the gang with Lightfoot.
Lieut.. Anderson of the Anacostia police
stated to q Star reporter this afternoon
that while Lightfoot was running through
the grounds of the Home for the Aged and
Inf1rm at Blue Plains two of the keep
ers of that institution commanded the
maniac to halt. Instead of obeying the
command, he ran at the men and struck
at them with his weapon. They ran into
building. Lightfoot continued on his
way. entering the woods nearby.
Lieut.. Anderson also said that he re-
garded Lightfoot as desperate charac-
ter of the worst description. At the fin
ish Of the man hunt, he said. the number
of pursuers had been increased to moro
than 500.
Patrick Maloney. one of the victims of
the frenzied mulatto. has been employed
at st. Elizabeth nearly thirty years.
He lived in a small house on the farm
Of the institution with his wife and one
child by his first wife. He was re-
garded as a man Of excellent reputation
and one Of the most efficient employees Of
ST. Elizabeth.
Fearing the effect of the tragedy on
the weak minds Of the patients. DR..
White ordered the guards and attend
ants to be on the alert. 1t was thought
the awful happening might prey on their
imaginations and result disastrously.
Tragedies Of Other Days.
The happening of today recalls some
of the tragedies at the institution in the
past About three years ago Pole or
Swede, who was a trusty at st. Eliza
beth's and had worked on the coal pile
for ten years. suddenly sprang In front
of train of cars in the asylum grounds
and was cut In two by the wheels.
About twenty-five years ago, when DR..
Godding was superintendent Of the insti-
tuition. two patients were put in the same
apartment in one of the wards. During
the night one of them crushed the skull
of the other with a china vessel and with
the broken pieces scraped out the dead
mans brains.
Lightfoot is almost white and weighs
about 175 pounds. He has a reputation
of being quite an athlete. His pursuers
today declared that whenever they caught
track of him In the flight he was running
with the swiftness of a deer.
Some of the trusty inmates who fol-
lowed In the pursuit were highly COM
mended by the hospital authorities. They
made an earnest effort to capture the
fleeing mulatto and showered stones at
him on several occasions.
One of them expressed his disgust when
he learned that three loads of shot had
been fired into Lightfoot's legs. The
seen service in Cuba and the Philippines.
They should have shot him in the
head" he said Had been on his trail
with my trusty Krag 1 would have
pumped a bullet through his worthless
head. for he has killed old Mr.. Ma
loney, one of the best men In the en-
ploy Of the hospital"
Another veteran in the uniform of
sailor, also an inmate, declared that the
way to put an end to Lightfoot would
be to give him big dose from the
BLACK bottle
The murderer, it was stated this after
noon, will not be turned over to the po
lice department. Criminal proceedings
cannot be instituted against him, as he
is a regularly committed lunatic at the
Government Hospital for the Insane.
He will be placed In Howard Hall, the
building in which the criminal insane are
incarcerated. He will no doubt end his
days within the gloomy walls of that
structure.
DR.. William A. White, superintendent
of the Government Hospital for the
Insane, will be compelled to start from
tonight. although much
against his will at this time, for New
York, whence he will sail tomorrow for
Vienna as the representative of the
United States at the international con-
gress on the care of the insane, to be
held at that place.
He says that should he fail to start
tonight he will miss his steamer and
be compelled to forego the important
assignment.
The largest insane asylum in the
world, DR.. White says, has just been
completed near Vienna. 1t has a ca
pacity of 1000 beds.