Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-28

| him with q battered eye and bleeding
| nose on the road near Tairmont Heights.
A Star reporter found Nh. Freeman in
his Anacostda store today, and the fol-
| lowing resulted:
"1t was two years ago, and I was a
greenhorn. fresh from the old country
about year. was peddling dry goods
| used to carry two grips. One weighed
| about atty pounds and the other weighed
about q hundred pounds. I was working
q route over near Fairmont Heights, and
about O'Clock two men stopped me on
what you got there!' one of them
asagsd
" told them I was peddling and one
OF them asked me Tor my license. When
said didn't have one. one Of them said
he was policeman.
Thinks It Was Smith.
Where's your badger I said.
He replied he didn't have any, and
| made a snatch at me. 1 set the two
grips down. and we all had a scrap. A
coloTed man came out of a house and
took care of my grips, and the two men
In q minute left me- Then went after
the grips, and. when was little dis
lance away, the man whom l now be-
iieve from photographs to have been
me. just punched him in the nose
and beat him up, leaving him on the
road. didn't report it to the police.
because was green in those days. and
didn't know the ways of the country,
but everybody around there knew
about it."
Inquiries by The Star in Alexandria to-
day contradicted the theory that frankie
was ever connected with a murder case.
The only Davis woman known in that
connection in Alexandria has disappeared
from that section. The police of Alex
andria say that frankie Davis has had
no connection with anything they have
had to do at any time.
Chicago Police Sure.
No Chicago detective will come to
Washington to see James Smith unless
1t is certain the Washington police will
surrender him to the authorities of the
western city, where he has been identified
as John Kabusta, slayer of two men in
1908. Nicholas Hunt, inspector Of detec-
tives Of that city. telegraphed to Mai.
Sylvester again last night:
No doubt as to Identification of Ka-
grown measurements. Lieut. Larkin
saw photograph and knows him.
The outgrown measurements refer to
the numerals on the card index in the
oCl measuring system. IneV are
measurements of features which could
easily change in three years. The police
base their identification principally on
the remarkable likeness in the profiles on
the photographs. and the finger print
Identification Is considered perfect.
Policeman Strobel today is working on
the Hotel Grand hold-up. and has a hat
with initials. found in the alley behind
the hotel after the cowboy had stuck
up" the place at the point of a gun.
A woman who believes she recognized
the hat was found this afternoon, and
gave the name of a man who may have
owned it. and whose name corresponds
with the initials.
Believes Bennett Conscious.
disinterested local surgeon has seen
Morris Bennett at Casualty Hospital and
explained to The Star that the man who
has identified Smith as his assailant is
in his right mind and will probably re-
cover. At the instance of this surgeon,
Detective Berman asked Bennett some
questions which would indicate the
mans mental condition:
Are you quite comfortable"
Bennett nodded Yes
do you want anything"
He shook his head-"No."
Some one suggested feeling Benefits
pulse. The injured man, fully under
standing the situation, pulled his hand
from beneath the bed clothes and held
1t out to a physician.
A stray fly alighted on BENEFITS
forehead, and the patient pulled up a
sheet and covered his head.
ASK him If the light hurts his eyes,"
suggested the surgeon. and the man in
dictated no"
Did the fly worry your
The answer was an affirmative nod.
Prisoner Shows Concern.
Bennett seems to be growing
stronger. and Detective Frank Baur
denly evidenced concern about Ben
nett's condition.
Smith asked the detective about the
injured man while being quizzed about
some of his past life. Detective Baur
said today that Smith had admitted be-
ing in Washington in December, 1902.
The detectives looked up the records
1902. the day Louis Gozman was beat
en- to death in his store on Gordon
avenue northeast. a murder which fur
nished the city with a morbid mystery
which has not been solved.
w. w. Stout, known as Smiths pal"
now In Jail in connection with the An
derson revolver. which. 1t il claimed,
he took away with him from the An
yesterday that Smith had talked to
him about working in a cooper's shop
in Chicago. Smith denies ever being
In Chicago.