Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-12
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Young Seaton Must Go Before
Sanity Commission.
Is ACCUSED OF ROBBERY
Captured After Wild Chase-Bur-
glars Try to Enter
Store.
IS ACCUSED OF ROBBERY
Special Correspondence OF The Star.


ALEXANDRIA. Va, April IL 1912.
The Washington youth Indicted under
the name of William P. Seaton who
held up George Papas, an attache Of a
Greek Iunchrom, December % at the
point Of pistol robbed the cash register
of its contents, then escaped. and who
was afterward captured in genuine wild
west style, may escape trial by being
declared insane.
Attorney Charles Bendheim, represent
ing Seaton. this morning made application
to the corporation court TO have lunacy
commission examine Seaton. The court
granted the request. and named Drs. W.
NJ. Smith. Arthur Snowden and NJ d. De-
Ianey. Action will be taken next Friday
In the event Seaton is declared to be of
unsound mind he will be sent TO the West
ern State Hospital at Stanton. Va.
On the night of December &c last
Seaton came over from Washington.
and after holding up woman, next
entered the lunch room and held up
the cashier. and then escaped, going
as far as ST Elmo. Alexandria county,
where he was captured after firing at
the chief of police.
A few days after his arrest Seaton
finally admitted that his correct name
was Berthram Seaton. and that he had
given the police his brothers name.
William 7. Seaton. and it is under this
latter name he was indicted.
Robbers Take Flight.
Thieves at an early hour this morn
ing attempted to rob the store of W.
T. Woolls & Son, Queen and Henry
streets There were three men in the
crowd. When Policemen Roland and
Kerns were half a square away from
fba h hno I'd
them approaching and ran. An eX-
animation showed the men had been
trying to cut open the window.
Luther Hastings an employe OF the
planning mill of W. A. Smoot Co.
lad the greater part of his left
hand severed while at work this morn
ing at 80 O'Clock. He was operating
flooring machine when his hand accident
ally got caught. Hastings was taken to
the Alexandria Hospital
Clifton Terry, twelve years old. son Of
John Terry of Lloyd avenue. Del Ray.
Alexandria county, was accidentally
wounded in the left leg late yesterday
afternoon by the explosion of cartridge
Young Terry was taken to the local hos
pitaI where the ball was extracted by
Drs. r. j. Yates and S. B. Moore. 1t is
said that Terry was endeavorng to ex-
plode the cartridge with an AK.
Six Lots Will Be Sold.
erty owned by the defunct Virginia Safe
Deposit and Trust Corporation. located in
Newport News. Va. will be sold at pub
lie auction at IL o'clock tomorrow morn
ng by G. l.. Boothe, special commissioner
of sale All of the other property Of the
concern was disposed of some time ago.
Mr. Boothe will leave tonight for New
port News to conduct the sale.
District Deputy Charles III. Callahan
al
dria Washington Lodge of Masons.
Speeches were made by number of the
local members during the evening.
Five bungalows now are in course Of
construction at the Dyke, Fairfax county,
three miles south Of Alexandria, on the
Observation-Disclosures railway.
Solomon Bell. colored, will be given a
preliminary hearing at o'clock this
afternoon before Justice Edmund Clark at
the Alexandria county courthouse on
charge of breaking into and robbing the
store of Harris Levy, Arlington Junction,
that county. The robbery occurred Sun
day morning last.
Principal Offered Position.
Prof William E. Anderson, principal
of the Alexandria High School, has un-
der consideration an offer to the princi-
palship of the Blue Ridge Industrial
School. Green county, Va.
Funeral services for Mrs. Eugene s.
Fegans took place at . O'Clock this after
noon at her home, 1881 Duke street.
Services were conducted by Rev. w. F.
Watson, pastor of the First Baptist
Church. Burial was in Bethel cemetery.
a foundation was laid for public
drinking fountain which will be erected
by Mount Vernon Chapter, Daughters Of
the American Revolution, at Cameron
and ROYAL streets. The fountain will be
dedicated about April 30