The Washington herald., 1912-04-24
IN GIRLS
ROOM IS ROUTED

confinued from Paee one.
lay stIn. expecting the child to speak.
Suddenly 8 match fared into briIiianee
and by the light Mrs Maxwell saw cut
lined the figure OF coiored man.
1T was ike a fiashlight Impression" I"
said Mrs Maxwell II heard the match
rubbed against cloth and the next instant
the mans face and the upper part OF his
body was revealed in the glare as he held
the light over his head and peered into
my face
Il said: How dare you come into my
husband I shouted: Joe. there's q coli
ored man IN this room My husband
leaped from. the bed. saying: Give me
that revolver quick Then the man turn
ed. knocked over a chair with a loud
noise, and ran down the stairs with my
husband. unarmed, IN pursuit.
'The man ran down the cellar" said
Mr.. Maxwell and as l had no weapon
and believed he was armed. thought It
door and shouted: Police. burglars,
helpT Ny cries must have aroused the
neighborhood, for / heard shouts from
every direction"
Mrs. Clayton Gran. who occupies an
apartment IN the Quincy. Just across Fif-
teenth Street froom the Bromwell and
Maxwell homes, raised the window and
shouted across TO Mr.. Maxwell: Hold
the thief. the police are coming" Police
man sImms was running to the house At
the time.
Waited at window.
No trace OF the Intruder could be
found but Mrs. Gran. who believed the
man stili was hiding in the Maxwell
house took a station IN the window Of
her apartment, ana with a loaded re-
volver in her hand. waited for nearly
two hours In the hope OF seeing him
creeping away. She finally grew tired
and went to sleep. Hardly had she
slosed her eyes when the man was found
in the Bromwell house.
Shortly after Bromwen stopped chas-
Ing the colored man and returned home,
Policeman Simms and iBcqcle Police
man cuwllinane reached the scene
Simms and Cullinane went into corcoran
Street where the colored man had last
been seen.
Their attention was attracted TO a
house at 15l2 Corcoran Street. because
the door to the basement was open. The
house was the residence Of the late E. b.
Hay. the noted attorney, and is now oe-
cupied by Mrs. Charles Jenkins who con-
ducts a boarding establishment. The
basement Is occupied by servants in the
employ OF Mrs Jenkins
Cullinane and Simms found a colored
man asleep In the furnace room. He had
been drinking and seemed dazed- He
was arrested on a charge Of housebreak-
ing and escorted to the Bromwell home.
Mildred and Louise Bromwell looked at
the man. They believe he Is the man
they. saw In their room Anyway" said
Louise, this man smells Of whisky Just
like the man in our room"
Worked ss Butler.
At the Eighth precinct station the
prisoner said he is Charles Jones. thirty
eight years old. 1ofelor52vPn etaoIn DIN
eight years old. Of I52 Providence Street
and has pursued the vocation OF butler
for several years. He claims to have
been butler for Capt de Chambrun, mil
itary attache Of the French Embassy.
who resides at 1s2s Sixteenth Street
Northwest.
Jones said he recently had been en-
ployed by Mrs. Charles Jenkins to tend
the furnace. when Jones came to me-"
said Mrs. Jenkins, "he gave me sey-
eraI excellent references, among them
letter from Capt de Chambrun He
has been an excellent servant, and never
caused ms any annoyance II he is ad-
me-"
Jones admits returning from the peni-
tentiary in January last after serving
fourteen months. ''I was sent there for
housebreaking," said Jones, but I do
not recall the case. do not remember
anything that happened Just before
was arrested this morning, but remem-
Der drinking early In the evening.-Mon-
day evening. When I was sent to the
penitetiary they told me 1 had been
found in the home OF a Hebrew down.
town. but 1 cannot recall It."
Capt. Doyle, of the Eighth Precinct.
believes Jones first entered the Maxwell
home. then went into the Bromwell
house, and, after escaping from Brom-
well' went into the basement of the
jenkins house to hide. Bromwell says
the street door to his home had been
left unlocked accidentally.
Il believe Jones found the door un-
locked and entered. He then turned
ou the gas 50 that he could not be seen
II discovered and forced to escape by
the front door, shot to kill. and Jones
would not be living now IL I had not
had the wrong cartridges in those re-
volvers."
Peeped Through KeyhOIe.
According to Mr.. and Mrs. BromweIl
and their daughters. Jones had caused
them annoyance on several occasions of
late. About four weeks ago he carried
trunk from the Jenkins house to the
Bromwell home for a young woman
changing her place Of abode. He placed
the trunk in the hail." said Mrs. Brom-
well, land while stood looking down
at him from the second floor he peeped
through q keyhole In the parlor door.
ordered him to leave the house"
Shortly after that said Mr.. Brou-
well, Louise saw the man in her room.
II was Just before midnight about three
weeks ago. She screamed. was in a
middle rom on the first floor, and
tried to get my revolver from a drawer
A photograph caught In the drawer and
could not open It. The man escaped
before could get the pistol"
-Four tinles since then. Jones has
asked Mrs. Bromwell II she wanted him
to wash the windows in the house Each
time she told him no and instructed him
never to come to the house again. A
few days ago, he stopped Mildred in the
street while she was skating and asked
her IL I was ever away from home at
night. He has been seen walking up and
down in front Of our house several times
and ordered away.
II believe the man Is insane"