Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29
MANEUVER CAMP
ST|RS WINCHESTER
Business Men Perfect Ar
engagements for Caring for at
Least 1900 Visitors.
CONFESSED BIGAMIST
is EXCUSED BY JURY
Audience of Moving Picture Theater
in Panic Over Supposed Fire.
Mysterious Shooting.
ecial Correspondence or The Star.

| WINCHESTER, Va. June IS 1913
When the United States cavalry ma
neuver camp, near Winchester begins
July 2O-the officers and men will fine
that extensive ARRANGEMENTS have been
made by local people for the comfort and
| convenience of the ., 800 or more men and
officers who will be present The Win
chester Board of Trade and Allied bust
the townspeople to board al east l.5ot
visitors who will include regular army
officers of all ranks. foreign military at
taches and other people who will be at
tracted by the encampment. The hotels
and public boarding houses were all
quickly booked up with prospective guests
and this left the question of providing for
the many visitors a very serious one
but 1t is now remedied. and every one
who will come to Winchester during the
two-month encampment will be assured
of comfortable quarters. good food and
reasonable rates.
The first question of a Suitable camp
site has been finally settled and will be
located on a tract of l, 200 acres of land
on the Opequon. a historic stream, about
four miles southeast of Winchester. Many
army engineers and privates from Fort
Myer are already on the ground laying
off the camp. arranging the water sup
ply. sanitation, etc. and establishing
headquarters in the town.
Although George Broy had confessed
that he was a bigamist, a jury in the
circuit court of Clarke county has
brought in a verdict of acquittal in his
favor. owing to the circumstances sur
rounding the case. Broy's first wife. who
was the prosecutor in the case just ended.
had deserted him a long while ago. leav-
ing her husband with an infant child to
care for. The second Mrs. Broy then put
in an appearance, and. taking compass
sion on the infant and the father nursed
the child through infancy and became Mr.
Broy's housekeeper. Finally Broy mar
ried her and had lived happily until the
first wife suddenly came back. The jury
decided that Broy had acted in good
faith, although ignorantly, and cleared
first wife and will remarry the present
Mrs. Broy.
Bichloride Victim.
Another bichloride of mercury victim
is lowering between life and death at
the City Hospital Martinsburg. in the
person of Miss Edna Schultz. a pretty
seventeen-year-old mill girl VINO swaI-
lowed three of the poison tablets sew
eral DAYS ago. Physicians say she will
not likely recover Miss Schultz is
or Mrs. FOrneV Schultz OF Boil
war. near Harpers Ferry.
DIR. Durus Desmus Carter died sew
eral days ago at Woodstock. from acute
Bright's disease. He WaS the first pres
ident of the Shenandoah Valley Medical
Society and was an officer in nearly
dozen medical associa tons. He was born
at Hancock. Nd, siXty-ive Years ago.
He leaves wife and four children.
Mayor Jones of Rerryvlle received in
telligence of a serious accident TO his
son. Thomas Jones, at the Northwestern
[ University at Evansville, Ind. Young
Jones was leaning out of a fourth-story
window at the university when violent
storm came up. A bolt of light
ming is thought to have struck him. hurl-
ing him from the window to the ground
below. His leg was broken and he sus-
tanned other injuries besides being rem
dered totally blind.