Evening star., 1912-07-20
HE FEARED HOLD-UP
Robert Jones Explains His
Early Morning Gunwork.
suRRENDERs TO POLICE
Lester Goddard in Hospital Suffering
| . From Dangerous Wound.
POLICE MAKE INVESTIGATION
Lewis Gray, Janitor at National
Training School for Boys, Held
for Investigation.

+ Declaring he had been held up and had
shot the alleged highwayman on the Ben.
ming road this morning, Robert Jones, a
negro. Of 40 Benning road northeast,
walked into the Police Court today and
gave himself up to the police.
The police Of the ninth. precinct and
Detectives Vermillion and Springman OF
police headquarters had been out look
Ing for the man who shot Lester Goddard
Of Hiilbrook. D. c., shortly before
o'clock this morning. while on the Ben-
ming road near the Eastern branch. God
dard is at the Casualty Hospital with a
bullet wound in hts chest. His condition
is said to he serious. Jones is held al
the ninth precinct station on a charge
OF assault with a dangerous weapon, and
Lewis Gray Of Benning. D. c., janitor
and guard at the National Training
School for Boys, is also held at the police
station with "held for investigation re-
corded against him.
Police Summoned by Phone.
The police of the ninth precinct re-
ceived g. Telephone message from the
power hulsa OF the Potomac Electric
Power Company, on Benning road. near
the Eastern branch. that q badly wound
ed man had been found near that place.
The message was that ha had been shot.
Lieut.. Falvey, Sergt. Wl1alen and Private
Marks of the ninth precinct hastened to
the scene in the paff4 EsHan When
in a chair in the power house. He was
placed in the wagon and taken to the
hospital.
. AT the hospital Goddard told the off,
GERS that he had been with Gray during
the night. He said he had been Informed
that Frank Daugherty, who was held for
the action OF the grand jury several days
ago by a coroner's jury in connection
with the death OF a negro on the Ben
ming road. and for whom the police have
been searching. was in a country. wagon
bound for the city. He said he bor-
rowed Gray's badge and keys.
He decalred he told the negro who was
driving the wagon that he was an officer
and wanted to search the wagon for
Daugherty. When he tried to mount the
Holland Makes Statement.
e. F. Holland, a negro. Of LIS Benning
road northeast, who heard Of the shoot
ing. went to the ninth precinct police sta
ton and said he had been held up" by
Goddard, but that he had not shot him.
He said he knew Goddard and that the
latter stopped him and said he was look
Ing for Daugherty. He said he then drove
on and left Goddard standing in the road.
After he had gone several hundred yards,
Holland said, he heard a pistol shot
down the road in the direction from
which he had come. When he reached
10th street and Benning road. he tod
the police, Jones drove up and said an
attempt had been made to hold him up.
He also said that Jones told him he had
shot up into the air to frighten the al
legged highwayman. but did not hit him.
Jones continued into the city and went
to the center market. While there he
heard that man had been shot on the
Benning road. Believing that the man
was possibly the one whom he declared
attempted to hold him up. he went to the
police Court and gave himself up.
When questioned at the police station
Jones said he was coming tc market
and that Ampa Jones. a negro. ten years
old. was in the wagon with him. He said
that when on the Benning road near the
Eastern branch man approached the
wagon and said, Hands up" He said the
man took hold Of the horses bride and
stopped 1t. He declared that the alleged
highwayman walked to the wagon and,
placing his foot upon the step, reached
toward his pocket.