Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
EVEN TOO BAD FOR PEN
| Wicked Ada Cross Not Wanted
Anywhere.
NOW IN INSANE HOSPITAL
Greatness Cured and Must Seek
Other Boarding House.
GOVERNMENT IS SEARCHING
Moundsville Doesn't Choose Her,
But May Be Induced by
Other Reasons.
GOVERNMENT IS SEARCHING

What is to become Of wicked Ada
Cross?
Unmitigatedly bad, thoroughly and
viciously unruly and murderous at insane
intervals. every penitentiary in the land
prefers the room to the company Of this
black terror. despite that they are main
tanned to provide housing for hard char
acters.
She is not insane now. and the insane
asylum is no place for her. The asylum
authorities insist that she has no right
to linger and must change her boarding
| house.
A strong room. donyon keep or I'M
breakable cage, capable of holding her
hard and fast safe from harm doing.
| therefore. is in reauisition by the govern
ment, which is hard put to it to know
what to do with untamable Ada Cross.
Ada Cross will always be remembered
by officials Of the Albany. n. Y. peni-
Tertiary and the Moundsville, w. Va,
prison. She has spent time at both in
stitutions. She is now in the Government
Hospital for the Insane.
The patient is reported to have re-
covered from the attack of insanity
which brought her there. The Depart
ment Of Justice. however. has not yet
found a home for her.
Most Troublesome Prisoner.
Prison ofiicials regard Ada Cross as
the most troublesome of all the prisoners
| they have ever had In custody. When
she was brought to Washington to be
placed in the insane hospital the peni-
Tertiary officials heaved a deep sigh of
| relief.
Ada was returned to the prison, but a
second time it became necessary to bring
| stated that she would never return to
MOundsville. ..e.
But officials of the Department of JUS
! tice are trying to induce the warden to
| accept her once more.
The warden does not want her Only
! a question of time. he considers 1t, before
| she would break out again.
Then too. the government Is not send
| ing other federal prisoners to that insti-
| tuition. Should Attorney General Wicker
sham and r. v. La Dow. in charge of
| prisons for the Department Of Justice.
decide to patronize the institution with
| other convict boarders the warden might
| be prevailed upon to take Ada.
Ada Cross name Is known to every
| policeman in the District OF Columbia.
| She has been arrested many times, given
much trouble and been sentenced to the
| penitentiary three times.
| HI 1870 SHE WdS SciteHCeu W serve lWO
years I'm the Albany prison. In 1901 she
was sent to Moundsville to serve four
years. Shortly after serving this last
! sentence she was arrested for robbing
several houses in Southeast Washington
! and travelled back to MoundsvilIe to be-
gin twenty-year term.
| When sentence was imposed she fell
screaming to the floor. Her removal
from court was accomplished after a
great amount of trouble.
| February - 1907 while at Mounds
! vile. she attacked with a pair of scissors
| and killed Lottie Hawkins, another ne
| gress, who was serving term for man
slaughter, having thrown her infant over.
| board from the Anacostia bridge.
Accused Jail Of1cials.
During her Incarceration In Jail here
awaiting trial Ada made complaint
against the jail officials, alleging she hat
not been properly treated. Affidavit.
made by her were presented to the jus
tees of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict Of Columbia and investigation fol
lowed. Her charges were found unjusti
fled and the inquiry was dropped.
At the time she killed Lottie Hawkin
she was held to be insane and irrespon
sible. No additional punishment wa
melted out to her.
Despite her bad record. she gave no trou
BILE on the two trips she made here [,
the Government Hospital for the Insane
| Deputy Warden Dawson did not find 4
necessary to put handouts on her.
The future Of Ada Cross is a matter OF
| conjecture. She is no longer insane. the
physicians say. and is under sentence OF
| twenty years imprisonment but officials
| of penal institutions do not want her
| Should the warden at Moundsville refuse
| to accept her an effort will probably be
| made to induce the officials OF the prison
at Lansing. Kan, to provide accommoda-
| lions fors her.