The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-07-19
P[AlhC[OTHEsMEN
ARE ON MAN HUNT
Squad Of Detectives Scour Virginia
Shore in Search of Alleged
Murderer.
GET WET AND MUDDY;
HAVE NOTHING TO EAT
Escape Of bad Man" and Number
Of Unsolved Murders Put
Police on Mettle.

George jackson, bad man, known
to the police as ex-convict No. 62ss. was
the elusive object Of a man hunt in the
muddy wastes of Virginia yesterday.
With revolvers within easy reach OF
their right hands. q score OF detectives
from Central office, unused to climbing
hills and tramping fields, searched from
morning until night.
jackson, the alleged murderer of
Charles Brooks, and known as q des-
perate man, escaped from Washington
to Virginia with a .44-caliber revolver.
a pocketful of bullets, and plenty of
nerve.
Just before he made tracks jackson
confided to q number Of "pals'' that he
had two more jobs to do before he left
Washington for good" and observed he
would never be taken alive.
Jury Probes Death.
While the detectives were securing
brickyards. lumber piles, warehouses.
freight yards. and every place where the
fugitive might hide on the Virginia shore
Of the Potomac a Jury was probing the
death of Charles Brooks.
Marie Turner testified that Brooks had
been shot by Jackson at Delaware Ave-
nue. and N Street early Sunday morning.
during a quarrel. The verdict held Jack
son for the murder.
Detectives are confident Jackson Is
hiding Just over the Virginia line. Since
the murder he has been seen there three
times, according TO the police informants.
He knows every foot of the ground, hev-
ing worked for months in a brickyard
not far from the Virginia end Of the
Highway Bridge.
jackson Is young, weighs about 175
pounds stands about five feet ten inches.
and can be counted upon to put UP a hard
fight. 'If we don't get the drop on Jack
son before he sees us, somebody is going
to get hurt" said one of the plain clothes
men last night
The searching party returned to police
headquarters at 7 o'clock, most of the
men exhausted. All were spattered with
mud from head to foot. Only one had
eaten since morning. Every path by
which Jackson may leave the vicinity in
which he Is supposed to be hiding Is
guarded.
intends to send every available man on
the hunt every day until jackson is forced
from cover. A reward of 800 has been
offered for the capture OF the fugitive, and
scores of tips" are received by the police
each day.
Many UnsoIved Murders.
The murder of Brooks and the escape
of the alleged murderer have put the
police on their mettle. Within the last
fifteen months six murders have been
committed in the District without the
perpetrator Of the crime being captured.
Rewards of 500 each hava9been offered
for the arrests of the fugitives.
The murder of the tobacconist. William
II. Mickle. in his little shop in Seventh
Street Northwest. and the murder Of
Sam Hing in his laundry in Fourteenth
Street Northwest are listed among the
"unsolved' mysteries.
Ernest Mcneil, colored, accused Of
killing his wife, Sarah McNeill, has not
been captured. although the police be- |
gan their search a few minutes after |
the murder on the night of March &
John Brown, colored, also is among |
the missing men accused of murder. |
Brown is alleged to have stabbed his |
employer, Andrew Viessman, a saloon |
keeper at Third and H Streets North
west, after a trivial quarrel. Viessmann |
died little less than a year after |
Brown vanished.
Frank Dougherty, the only white man
sought for murder. is still at large. |
Is accused of having stabbed |
John Spencer. colored, in Benning Road
ast Sunday morning when Spencer was
attacked and robbed by seven white
men. Six of them are in the District
ail.
The police say Dougherty will be
,aught in a few days.