Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-22


Stout says that a few days ago he I'D
dressed a letter to frankie Davis 1t 10
Maryland avenue northeast The lette
was returned to him marked that Their
was no such person at the address giver
T. n. B.
Police in a Lively Search
for Third Murder Suspec
third suspect in the Mickle murder cas-
is being hunted for by every man on tn
police force of the District Of Cofumbt
today He is pal of Jim Smith and q
w. Stout. and spent many evenings to
gether with the two Of them in the tittl
Office of William Anderson. whose woo'
yard at ID and N streets southwest ha
been overrun with detectives. amateu
and professional. today. The police visit
ed Andersons wood yard and his hous
several times today.
Anderson's wrench was only ono o
several things which disappeared from
the place when Smith and Stout left
within the last few weeks.
The police hoped to positively identif!
a revolver which Smith pawned recentl!
as a revolver which Smith borrowed from
William Anderson. but Anderson, looking
Ut 1t, shook his head and said 1t wa
not his property. Later Detective Spring
man made sure that the revolver on which
- by Smith at It'll and D streets undel
the name Frank Davis. and that he ha'
pawned II under the name OF JAIME
Smith, giving the address 31S Peunsyl
Vania avenue both times
William Anderson's story. told to a Sta
reporter this morning and later to dc
tectives. unfolds a picture Of the nightly
meetings Of Smith. Stout. Frankie Davii
and the mysterious third man Tor whom
the detectives are looking today. ane
who. after all, may be the very man wn(
killed William II. Mickle.
Anderscn's woodward Is on the oanl
Of the old James Creek canal. At nigh
the neighborhood is dark and extremely
lonesome. With the ill-smelling stream
ON the east and dark pocket OF alleys
and unlighted paths on the other three
sides, the ramshackle house In which
Stout and Smith stayed nights, each arm
ed with borrowed revolvers: completes
the setting for the story which the police
are working hard to conclude.
Met Nightly for Weeks.
These two men met there nightly TO,
several weeks, said William Anderson &c
a Star reporter this morning.
stout lived at my house, too. 1 rur
a boarding house at 400 7th street south
west.- and when he came to work for me
he asked me to send him to place tt
I'VE, and sent him around home. Well
about all 1 wanted of him was to sleel
around here nights to watch the wood
which is done up in little packets and
anybody could carry away CARLOAD Iol
all j would know. So Stout slept here
nights This man, Jim Smith. used te
come here every day, then. Why. must
have seen him forty times, and severa
times he said he was hard UP and needed
a Job badly. / told him / didn't have any
job. and he asked me if he could sleeK
there in the office with his pal. sure
j let him, because he said he would hell
watch the place, and / thought two
watchmen were better than one
We'll, Stout got q revolver from some
body up at the house, and said he needed
it because he was afraid to stay dowr
thing to protect himself. Smith tackled
me one day and asked me to lend him 8
gun. / had one which ! had bought or
the street from a man. 1t was a short
barreled affair, Of the bulldog type. bu
swear I can't recall the calfber.
never paid much attention to the gun. ex.
cept to look at it now and then.
Could Identify Davis Woman.
THE Davis woman-Franikie. they called
her-used to be down here a lot Of thu
time. She would stay here for hours
and I would know her again as soon a.
/ saw her."
Policeman Strobel and Sergt. McCor
mick called on Anderson this morning
to verify some of the details Of tn,
stories which had turned up over night
and later a delegation composed Of De
tectiyes Springman, Baur and Burlin
game dropped in to see about the re
yolver which Smith had pawned and ais
to let Anderson have another look q
the wrench which killed william Mfckle
The wrench he identified as his own, bu
the revolver he had never seen before.
Anderson is conservative man anl
would not be led into any hasty state
ment about the wrench. He examined
1T over and over again, saying at frs,
ne did not know whether it was his OF
not. Detective Baur pointed to marks
and dents on the wrench and asked
Anderson:
DO you suppose any other wrench
could have this same combination o,
dent marks?"
We'll" replied Anderson, you SET
but any wrench might have those same
marks"
He took the wrench in his hands
again and studied 1t closely. He
walked to the workbench in his shor
and laid it among his tools and tossed
II oii O. phe VI iIoHs stepping DICK 70
glance at it from every angle. He was
trying to see whether 1t looked famil.
lar. At length he made the state
ment that 1T is his wrench.
Il missed that wrench and two OF
three other tools the night that Smith
ana Stout went away from here fol
good. carrying with them the two re.
volvers. l bought that wrench at a
secondhand store run by Mrs. Gold.
stein at 917 AZ street,"
Recognizes Wrench From Picture.
Mrs. Goldstein is the woman who rec
aognized the wrench from a picture IL
The Star. and who gave the police q val
liable clue on which to work. She toll
this story to Star reporter:
THAT wrench, How glad I am I rec
ognized it. l remember that wrench 8,
good could tell 1t In my sleep. / sol,
that wrench to William Anderson abou
a month ago. and when 1 saw q pictur
OF 1t in The Star / remembered Il yer.
well. At first it worried me terribly. be
cause / had sold a wrench that ki'le,
some one, and i thought at first I ha,
sold IL to some tough guy that went ou
and beat people up. But no. said L
my husband-he don't work here-h
works in a shoe store. I know tina
who / sold 1t to- Then in came William
Anderson. and / knew right away he wa
the man i sold that wrench to-"
Detective Baur had the wrench Wit
him this morning. and called at the @ I'D
stein store. AS soon as he opened t.
package Mrs. Goldstein gave an exciama
ton of JOY:
''Ah. sure. 1 would know that wrench
That's the one sold to William Andei
SON.