The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
boy SHOT while
RIDING In CAR
William Meredith, Fifteen, Is
Seriously Injured by Bull
LET Fired from Street.
TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE
Lardney Parker, Colored, Supposed to
Have Done Shooting, Still at
Large After Wide Search.

Struck near the right temple and prob
ably fatally wounded while sitting in
front Of an open window Of a trolley car
or the Great Falls and Old Dominion
line. by a bullet intended for a negro
riding on the rear platform, which was
fired by another negro from a street in
Rosslyn, Va, yesterday afternoon. WILL
lam Meredith, a fifteen-year-old white
boy. is lying near death in Georgetown
University Hospital.
Four negroes are locked up in the Alex
andria County Jail. held as material wit
nesses. Lardney Parker. nineteen years
old. who is alleged to have fired the shot,
is still at large.
Young Meredith, who is the son Of Guy
Meredith, foreman of Pennsylvania Rail-
road teamsters, residing in East Wash
ington Park, Benning, yesterday gained
the consent or his parents to visit an
aunt Mrs. J. E. Kemp. living in Claren-
don, Va
AS the car was approaching Banks
Street, Rosslyn, a crowd Of negroes was
seen standing on the corner. Several of
the negroes left the crowd and boarded
the car One Of the negroes standing on
the rear platform shouted an epithet at
a negro standing on the corner just as
the car was starting.
Negro shoots ind Runs.
revolver from his pocket and fired.
Two negroes, Raymond Walker ard
Herbert Spence, who were arrested about
two hours after the shooting, admitted
they had been standing on the corner at
the time the shot was fired, and named
Lardney Parker as the youth who fired
the shot.
A. H. Barbor, Sheriff Of Alexandria
County, telephoned the Washington po-
af Dc, onI a nt
6 o'clock the police Of the Seventh pre-
cinct arrested negro, who gave his
name as Harry Watts. eighteen years
old. of 221S Virginia Avenue Northwest.
He admitted being in the vicinity of the
shooting, but denied any connection with
the affair. Sheriff Barbor took him back
to the Alexandra County jail.
The search for Parker was continued
until a late hour last night Attorney
posse and Harry Johnson, warden of the
vicinity of Chain Bridge
The bullet went wide and struck young
Meredith just below the right temple.
The boy fell face downward on the
floor of the car. Some one gave the
signal to stop the car. The negroes
standing on the rear platform jumped
from the car and ran toward Fort Myer.
several men SprdnS from the car anu
followed, but were soon outdistanced.
7. NJ. Weir, of the Commonwealth
Printing Company. telephoned to E. NJ.
Ward, special policeman at Fort Myer,
and informed him of the shooting. Ward
summoned some of his neighbors and
started after the negroes.e
In the meantime Meredith was re-
moved to the offices of the Rosslyn
Milling Company. where Miss Irene
Basin. a stenographer, stanched the
flow of blood. A. D. Torryson. manager
of the MILL hurried the stricken lad to !
the Georgetown University Hospital
where he was placed upon the operating |
table
News Withheld from Mother.
The news of the boys condition had |
not been broken to Mrs. Meredith. who /
has been seriously i'll for some time, up |
until late hour last night The lads |
father visited his son at the hospital |
shortly after the operation. Young /
Meredith retained his consciousness.