The Washington times., 1914-06-01
.COLORED MAN HELD
IN VIRGINIA KILLING
Alexandria Prisoner Says He
Cannot Recall Whether He
Did Shooting or Not.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. June Joseph
Willis, colored. who lives in Chicken
alley, was arrested at o'clock this
~orning by Special officer Reynolds, of
he Washington-Southern railway.
harEcd with having murdered Virgil
ones, also colored. in a camp car on
he Southern railway. near the Poto-
1sc yards, last night. When arrested
Willis had a .3s-caliber revolver in his
ocket. There was an empty shell in
nc of the chambers. Willis, the Of
Toers assert. first acknowledged that he
rad shot Jones. but when brought to
the police station declared that he had
heen intoxicated last night and did not
remember what he had been doing. He
as identified by six or seven other
,olored men. who witnessed the shoot
tng as the man who had fired the
shot.
The murder occurred at. 10 o'clock last
night when a man, said TO be Willis.
approached the camp car where
nulnher of men were lettering and
asked to be permitted TO spend the
night there. He Was warned to move
on. as it was stated to him that the
rules Of the company did not permit
4ay strangers in the camp cars. In ap-
rsrent good humor he complied with
the request, but when few yards from
ones pulled a pistol from his pocket
and fired. Jones fell and died in few
minutes.
The body was brought TO Demaine's
Undertaking establishment, where the
inquest will be held this afternoon.
Two hundred girls. dressed in white
and wearing wells and wreaths. took
part in the annual May procession Of
he Sodality of the Children OF Mary.
At ST. Mary,s Catholic Church, yester-
day. The children formed at st. Mary's
academy and marched to the church in
a body, where they crowned the statue
Of the Virgin Mary.
An inventory of the loss and investi-
Cation OF the causes leading to the
re which destroyed a portion of the
4cid plant of the Alexandria Fertilizer
and Chemical Company, on Saturday
light, is being made today by engi
7eers from the company's New York
ofice. 1t is said that the loss will
De about S25.0oo.
The Rev. ]. p. Stump. former pastor
Of the Washington Street Methodist
Thurch South in this city and now
coated at Easton, Nd, preached at
he morning and evening services of |
he Washington street church yester- |
fya.
r. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Vet
rams will meet tonight in Lee Camp !
fsu. !
Thomas H. Clark has sold TO Charles ,
: Howell a house and lot on the south |
side of ST. Asaph street, between Duke ,
and Wolf streets.
During the month of May Clerk |
Newell S. Greenaway, of the corpora |
ton court, recorded forty-siX deeds |
and issued forty-nine marriage
licenses. OF the latter forty-one were
to white persons and eight to colored
persons.
The joint convention OF the Women's |
Foreign Missionary Society and the |
women's Home Missionary Society OF !,
he Baltimore Conference Of the NJ. L. /
Ehurch South will convene here to-
morrow evening.
Corporation Attorney Samuel P.
Fisher, who has been spending a |
month with his brother, Capt. Charles
Fisher. U. 5. A, at Fort Hancock, \. |
=. has returned home.
The civil service commission has an
nounced the following examinations to
be held in Alexandria on the dates
named: Immigrant inspector. June Il:
aid Coast and Geodedic Survey, June
'-B, law assistant, July 2z-23; plant
0atholoSist in potato Investigations.
IUne -: senior highway engineer, Junel
.. assistant biochemist. July 3; assist
scaler. July S: structural engineer and
drsftsman. July SO; assistant mining
"nE1neer Jolly l3; record examiner.
lUly q.