The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-13
SISTERS MIND
SNAPS AT GRAVE
OF SLAIN CHILD
Myrtle Smith Taken Raving
From Cemetery to Hos
pital Ward.
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hung upon the arm of her escort she
looked once at the familiar and now
oarkened rnom.
Harry. Harry. oh. has he come yet?''
she sobted, and over and again, while
heinS led ub The steps. she voiced her
grief at the loss of her baby brother.
II was necessary to carry her part OF
the way. and for hours afterward she
Law inert. moaning and calling for the
dead child.
Physicians were summoney imrue-
diately and declared that the girl is in
a. serious condition.
climax of a grief the like Of which has
seldom been seen even by Detectives,
long used to the aftermaths of tragedy.
The outbreaks this morning, followed
TIE paroHisms Of grief which have
shaken her ever since the discovery of
the crime, and her Identification of the
body, when she tried to hurl herself
fhto the river. which flows back OF the
morgue.
No New Developments.
No new developments have been noted
by the police in the homicide and arson
case against Tony Milano, since six men,
solemnly declared they believed Harry
Elton Smith was killed by a weapon in
the hands of the shoemaker. These six
men had witnessed the most remarkable
scene. the most narrowing exhibition
ever seen in the Districts house of
death down on the river front, where
all things are gruesome or pathetic.
And while few ever approach the little
chapel-like morgue who are not SORROW
full, men who have seen sad visitors
come there and go for many years, de-
clare that yesterdays scene has never
been equalled.
ism OF incarnate vengeance which
hurled her, a frail, brpwn-eyed girl,
at the throat of the man she believes
killed her brother. Myrtle Smith yes
terday declared that the law of Moses,
an eye for an eye, shall prevail, and
that she, the next of kin, must see that
justice is done.
Not since the day. five years ago,
when the body OF former Senator
Brown lay at the morgue, and throngs
gathered there in idle morbid, curios-
ity, has there been a case. say the
police, where women have flocked about
the scene of sudden death as they have
In this case.
Curious Ones Hamper.
Throughout their Investigations the
police, have been hampered by the NOR
bidly curious.
All day Sunday the pavement in front
Of the shoemaker shop at 400 H street
northwest was packed. Eyes eager to
glimpse II they could the tattered news
papers which covered stains of blood
or to see the half-consumed lounge
which lay atop of the victims charred
body pressed against the dusty window
panes of the shoemaker's rooms.
Crowds hung around the Sixth precinct
station until driven away, all because
somewhere in the back of the red brick |
building, in a cell of stone and iron, a |
man sat who. was different and, from |
their standpoint, desirable to see, mere |
ty because the body of an afflicted child, |
slain and burned, had been found in his |
shop.
Scene At the Shoe Shop.
Yesterday when Milano was taken to |
Police headquarters to be photographed, |
tive headquarters, asking Where Is he? |
Can we see him?' and were gruffly or
dered out by the police who do not |
sympathize with this sort of interest.
Later yesterday the police with their
photographer, Fred Sanberg, went to
the little shop which has been sealed
since the crime. They went there to
take photographs to be used as evidence,
and found a crowd Still lingering about.
One tall blonde woman forced her way
In while the police were in the rear
room, and when they noticed her. she
was lifting the papers covering the
blood stained floor. and poking into the
charred remains of the heavy COM
fort which had developed the boys
body.
Antoinette Milano and her three bam-
binos must leave their humble home, in
Schotts alley. They are destitute. The
Victor Emanuel Society, however, will
see that they do not suffer until they
can he sent to New York, to live with