The Washington times., 1912-08-15
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. AUG. is


| From information received by rail-
road detectives today. It develops that
the total value of the goods stolen from
the freight car at Edsalls station on
Tuesday is far in excess of the first
estimate. The bill Of lading discloses
that the shipment was consigned to
Hawkins & Bro, of Charlottesville, Va,
| and was valued at $685. II was being
shipped over the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad.
Late yesterday afternoon william
Oehlert was taken into custody, charged
with the theft of the goods. He waived
a hearing in police court this morning,
and was held for the action of the
grand jury by Justice Luther H. Thomp-
son. His bond was fixed at $1,000, which
has not yet been supplied, although 1t
is expected that he will be released
during the day. This makes the second
arrest in connection with the affair.
Samuel Harris a King street merchant,
in whose store the goods were found,
having been held for the grand jury
yesterday.
Most of the property has now been
recovered, amounting to about fifty
women's suits and twenty-five polo
coats. Yesterday afternoon ten more
coats were found lying in a lot in the
southwestern portion of the city.
According to the police, Oehlert denies
having actually stolen the goods; al
though 1t is said that he admitted being
on the wagon which transported the
goods from Edsalls to the store of Har-
ris. When the store was raided Tues
day night 1t, was said that preparations
were being made to ship the suits out
of the city.
The special agents of the Southern
railway. several of whom have been
working in this section for many
months in an effort to run down the
perpetrators of the frequent robbery
OF freight cars near this city,. are of the
least an important end of it. 1t is said
that other arrests may possibly follow
today.
1t is stated by officials of the Wash
ington- Virginia railway that commuta-
tion books, good for trips between Alex
andria and Washington, may soon be
issued, which will be marked by a ma
terial reduction in price. The present
SO per cent ticket, good or eight trips,
may be abandoned, there being issued
instead fifty-trip family book, good
accompanying him, which must be used
within three months after sale.
Another change contemplated is the
placing on sale of the fifty-two-trip
monthly books on the fifteenth as well
as the first day of the month.
The August term of the corporation
court convened yesterday afternoon. but
no cases came up for consideration.
Because of the lack of n QUORUM
there was no special meeting OF the
common council last night, as called
Tuesday. But seven of the members
were on hand at the appointed hour,
and after waiting for thirty minutes.
Clerk D. r. Stansbury declared tho
meeting off. AS the body has already
adjourned until August 81, there viii
be no session In the meantime, except
on the call of the President. The new
council forms on September !.
Councilman Birrell, who at the Tues
day nights meeting presented a pet
ton from property owners on Wash.
tngton street, objecting to the narrow
ing of the street to a width of less
than sixty feet, In the course OF coll
struction Of new roadway, stated