Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-11
MAYOR WILL ACT
MIR. Strange Says He viii Look
Into Shooting By Policemen
Last Night.
THREE SAILORS FINED.
Justice Davis Puts Heavy Penalty For
Resisting Arrest-Mrs. Stone Do.
ing Nicely.

The wounding of Mrs. Richard
Stone by shot fired from the revol-
yer of Patrolman Thomas Jacobs. of
the city police force last night while
that officer was chasing a United
States sailor, who had resisted arrest
and was running away, will be fully
investigated by Mayor James F.
Strange, who will probably report his
conclusions and findings in the matter
to the City Council for action should
the facts justify such a procedure.
The announcement that he would
look thoroughly into the affair was
made by Mayor Strange this morning
following the furor and expressions of
indignation by some of the residents in
the neighborhood of Prince George
and Holland and Randall streets over
the alleged careless way in which the
officer was said to have used his re-
volver.
Officer Jacobs had had trouble with
M. A. Douglas, Tobias Herboltzhire
and E. l.. Bowes, who had created
disorder in front of a saloon on the
lower part of King George street by
throwing beer bottles into the street.
When he demonstrated with them and
finally attempted to make an arrest.
the sailors set upon him, and after fir
ing his revolver into the air for assis-
tance from other officers, Officer Ja-
cobs deputized a citizen or two to
help him. Patrolman James Freeman
and John Jacobs soon came to the as
sistance of Officer Thomas Jacobs, and
the men were headed for the station
house, when Jacobs, who was holding
Douglas. saw one of the other men
strike at Officer Freeman, who had
him under arrest.
When Officer Thomas Jacobs releas-
ed his hold on Douglas to catch the
other mans hand, Douglas bolted.
running down Randall street to Prince
George and thence down Prince George
street to the water front, with the
patrolman in hot pursuit. As the man
refused to halt at his call to him to do
so, Officer Jacbs fired twice at the fee
ing sailor as the two ran down Prince
George street. The first bullet hit
the hard paved street, glanced and
struck Mrs. Richard Stone in the foot
as she stood on the pavement far down
the street, at the corner.
Douglas continued to run, however,
until he reached the dock at the foot
of the street, where he plunged into
the waters of the harbor. He was
tished out and taken to the lookup
with the other men and this morning
all were given hearing before Jus
tice of the Peace Davis. Justice
Davis fined Douglas S25 and costs.
amounting to $28.25 and Herboltzheir,
500 and costs, amounting to $5325
for assaulting a police officer in the
discharge of his duty and fined Z. F.
Bowes So and costs for disorderly con-
duct. The fines were paid and the
men released. While Officer Jacobs,
surrounded by party of sailors who
were resisting his authority and in an
ugly mood, needed assistance and was
justified in defending himself, the
feeling prevails that he was a little
too free with his bullets and that
the police force should be warned to
be more careful in future. Mrs.
Stone was taken to the Emergency
Hospital for treatment and is today
doing very nicely.