Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24
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Every important Country Stir William B. Knkead Marine
red by Popular Agitation. Private Placed in Lookup
GENERAL UNREST EXISTING SMALL GIRL HIS ACCUSER
Against Increasing of Prisoner Alleged Attempted
Living. Criminal Assault
APPREHENSION OF INVESTORS MAKES EMPHATIC DENIAL
How in Southeast
in Financial Quarters ard.
William B. Kinkead, Marine
Private, Placed in Lookup.
SMALL GIRL HIS ACCUSER
Prisoner Alleged to Have Attempted
Criminal Assault.
MAKES EMPHATIC DENIAL
Crime Said to Have Been Committed
in Southeast Washington
Near Navy Yard.

Pointed out by thirtcen-year-old Mary
Downs as her assailant, William B. Kin
kead, a private of the United States Ma
rine Corps. was arrested last night about
: clock, at sth street and Navy place. by
Policemen Kite and Murray of the ffth
precinct. was hurried to the police sta
ton and locked UP, and saved from pos
sible violence al the hands of crowd Of
men and boys. He will be arraigned be-
fore Judge Aukam in the Police Court
tomorrow morning a charge OF at
tempted criminal assault.
The attention of the policemen were
drawn To kinkead by two colored women
who said they had heard the cries of the
girl in Lewis alley, between 1th and Sth
ana u and / streets, and had seen her
struggling in the embrace OF a marine in
an Old hucksters wagon left on a vacant
lot TOR the night. kinkead was arrested
as he was trying to leave a saloon on
sth street at Navy place shortly after the
alleged attack. AT the police station he
denied the charge and declared he had
never seen the girl until the moment he
emerged from the saloon In custody OF
Policeman Murray.
Child Suffers From Shock.
The Downs girl, after identifying Kin
ketd and being questioned at the police
station. was takeh to her home al $50
llth street southeast by Policeman Kite
She is small for her age and slightly
built. Her sister, Miss Ida Downs, sa
she was suffering from shock and was
In highly nervous condition, but WAS
otherwise uninjured. The mother, Mrs.
Maria Downs. has been an invalid
for more than year and was only
recently returned to her home from a
hospital. She Is bedridden, and was
greatly unnerved. An older brother.
John Downs, who is employed by the
Firth Sterling Steel Compaiy at Gies-
boro point, was not at home, and did not
learn of the attack until a late hour.
The little Downs girl was sent to a de-
partment store at Sth street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast, shortly be-
fore O'Clock last night, according 10 the
older sister, to purchase a cap for her
small brother. The police say kinkead.
with two other marines, Prtvates Casey
and Mccarthy, accosted the Downs girl
while she was gazing in an sth street
shop window I'm company with little
girl friend, Ola Crawford, who lives at
S14 G street southeast. Kinkead is said
to have told the two girls to walk along
with him The Crawford girl, who Is
younger IMAM Htf COIlPdHlOI, 1ekt IhcUl,
but kinkead is alleged TO have led the
Downs girl into the alley. Two colored
women. Viola Washington of IN Navy
place, and Kate Berry, living at 656 Navy
place, saw them, having been atraced By
the girls outcry. The women said Kin
kead profanely told them to mind their
own business.
kinkead. according to the Downs girl.
promised her ~ cents if she would cease
| crying, but as number of persons We're
fr.Is tod fn fha hn &c fa ha H.1
run into the saloon.
Accused Mans Denial.
When the policemen arrived Casey and
| Mccarthy, kinkead's companions, were
just coming out of the establishment and
| the policemen started to arrest them, but
were told by the girl that neither of
them was the man wanted. Policeman
Murray says he then entered the saloon.
and that when iNinkead him the
marine attempted to leave the place by
another door.
According to the officer knkead at
first denied ever having seen the girl
before. and afterward declared the sa-
loon porter had told him some one
wished to see him outside. and that he
had gone out and walked down the
street "A short distance with the girl
and then returned to the saioon, never
having left tho pavement on Sth street.
A crowd numbering several scores
OF persons had gathered at the saloon
entrance and followed the officers who
had kinkead in custody To the police
box. They We're muttering threats
against the prisoner, but no effort was
made tor take him from the policemen.
kinkead claims he is COUSIN on his
mothers side of Maj. w. " Judson.
Commissioner of the District, and made
efforts to have his plight communicated
to the Commissioner. At Mai Judson
residence at the Brighton apartments.
lit was said the Commissioned was out
of town. and would not return until
Monday. kinkead spent the night In
|cell at the ffth precinct police station
Driver Accused of Similar Crime.
Policemen secured the District last
night in an effort to locate. the driver
of a wagon who is reported To have
committed an assault upon unidenti-
fed girl about twelve years of age
yesterday afternoon in an alley Ee&r
Maryland avenue and il2 street south
west The police have description
of the man, and also the girl, but At
an early hour this morning no trace OF
either of them had been obtained.
Capt Williams. in command OF the
fourth precinct, received telephone mes
sage Yesterday afternoon from colored
man. who said he was at Maryland ave-
nue. and AZ street at the time of the as
sault Capt Williams, with several po-
licemen went to investigate, but when
they arrived the man and girl had dis
apneared. Neither could the person who
telephoned the information to Capt. Will
vestigating in an effort to locate the man
and girl.