Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-14

guilty. These were John Pickering,
United States District Judge, 1s03-'4
and William II. Humphrey, also a
Federal judge, whom the Senate re-.
moved from Office in 1862.
The torso of a man, one of whose
legs was found in suit case in an
alley in the Oriental quarter of Chi
cago, Saturday was discovered yes
terday by detectives in turning over
some rubbish in a corner of the balk
yard of the Turkish coffee house.
where the murder is supposed to have
been committed. Hassan Sina, one OF
the proprietors of the coffee house,
admitted to the detectives that he as
sisted two other men to burn the
head of the murdered man in the kit
chen stove of the coffee house. He
said the murdered man was Abdul
Ollie, one of his partners. The killing.
he said. was done last Monday by
Sina's cousin, Hasan Aout and Chi
mil Uner, the motive being robbery.
A record was established in crimi-
nal legal history in the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia yester-
day, in that jury in Justice Stat
ford's court, before which was tried
the case of Nathaniel Green, colored,
,c}ra8ged with fele.licsls, as:'aut on Mrs.
Adelaide E. Grant, on Christmas night
brought in verdict Of guilty, recon-
mending the death penalty within
thirty minutes. The jury retired at 2
o'clock and thirty minutes thereafter
had agreed on the verdict which will
send Green to the gallows. Standing
on his plea ,of guilty, as entered jan
uary last, when he was arraigned,
Green, through his counsel, declined
to take part in the trial Notice of
motion in arrest of judgment was
filed by Green's counsel. The motion,
it is understood, will be heard with
out delay.
Casas Grandes was attacked unsuc-
cessfully Saturday by the combined
Mexican rebel forces, it was reported
yesterday at Ell Paso, Texas, official
ly. Eight hundred rebels hurled them
selves against the federal fortifica-
tions, to be repulsed after few hours
fighting by 600 federal regulars and
volunteers who occupied positions in
the church and other high buildings
of the town. The rebels, possessing an
artillery, were moved down by the fed
eral machine guns. Previous to the
attack on Casas Grandes, the largest
town in the district southwest OF
this point, the rebels are given official
credit for the rout near Madra OF
Gen. Jose de la Luz Blanco's COM
mand, and the capture and execu-
ton of de la Luz Blanco, a for
mer insurrecto leader. 1t is stated
III reliable reports that not only was
Blanco executed but the rebels took
prisoners Ia officers and 140 soldiers
all of whom We're shot. Blanco, while
yet alive, was hanged to tree and
shot.
Roomie Stevens, fifty years old,
carpenter and night watchman, and
Robert L. Thomas, twenty-six years
old, electrician and boarder at the
Stevens home, at 3S Cedar street, Ia
koma Park, Washington, battled with
revolvers in the, kitchen of the house
last night because Stevens believed
his wife. Mrs. Evelyn Stevens, forty
FIVE years old, loved the boarder
Thomas, and when the smoke cleared
away Stevens was lying across the
body of his wife, who had bullet hole
through her abdomen and Thomas was
stanching the flow of blood from q
wound in the face. Jealousy on the
part of Stevens, it is said, caused the
tragedy.
Because his mother refused to give
him 5 cents for candy, Leroy Higgins
eleven, Yesterday shot and killed hi: