Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-13
MANY CLUES ARE FOUND
TO FUGITIVE SLAYERS
Sweater, Hat and Searchlight Be-
lieved TO Have Been Dropped
in Their Flight.
NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE
Governor Stuart Asked to Add State
Reward to That Offered by County
for Capture OF Men Who Commit
ted Double Crime.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 1o-It
is probable that rewards aggregating
considerably more than $1,000 will be
paid for information leading TO the ar
rest of the two men who participated
! IN the double murder and serious as
sault and robbery at the house Of Mrs.
Matte 4. Hughes, one-half mile south
OF Clark Station. Alexandria County
Va. At early hour Sunday morning.
Commemorative Attorney Crandal
Mackey induced the county commits
sioners to offer reward and asked
Governor stuart 10 offer one. lie was
told by Mrs. Hughes that lie will pay
literally for the capture of the culprits.
sheriff Barber and Commonwealth's
Attorney Mackcy labored on the case
until late last night, and to-day they
were busily engaged on getting to-
gcther the testimony that they think
Will assist In capturing the slayers.
ARTICLES ARE DISCARDED
ny TWO MURDERERS
green sweater. hat and searchlight,
believed to have been discarded by the
two men as they made their way toward
the river TO reach this city, were found
Sunday. They were not turned over
TO the county officers until yesterday.
however. and the sweater, II Is said.
bore stains OF blood.
The sweater was found on road
that parallels the one on which Mrs.
IIughes's house is located. and not Il
great distance from the scene of tho
tragedy. colored woman found the
sweater. but paid no particular attcn
ton 10 il. She kept il until after she
learned that the two slayers had passed
along the road in the direction of her
house. Then she thought there was
some connection between the burglars
and the sweater and turned II over
TO the authorities.
A-colorcd boy, son of the woman who
found the sweater. picked up the
searchlight. II had been dropped in n
muddy spot not far from the boys
home The finding OF hat near the
hughes house yesterday afternoon is
looked upon as being an important bit
of testimony.
The hat is the same size as the
swaziland that was in the yard OF the
Hughes home" said a county officer to-
day. and is undoubtedly the hat OF
one OF the murderers."
commemorative Attorney Mackcy
and Deputy Sheriff Palmer visited po-
lice headquarters and saw II. J. Cole
man, the chauffeur who drove Mrs.
Hughes and Nicholas Coflnas to the
Virginia home on Saturday night. Cole
man repeated the story of his trip to
tho Hughes home, told OF how he had
seen llSnt SHINING through one or
the windows while his machine was
still In sight OF tho house. and said
the light was cXtinguishcd before he
got out of sight.
Two days before the double murder
and assault occurred Commonwe alth's
Attorney Mackey says nc talked with
Mrs Hughes ut the front door of her
house. having gone there with w. G.
Cloth. Allan Hume and Charles r.
j essc. viewers. who were looking after
the land that Is to be used in the con-
struction of the Mount Vernon High
way. Mr.. Hughes donated strip about
200 feet long.
Mrs. Hughes told Mr.. Mackcy at Sib-
ley Hospital that she shouted "cabby"
ut the top of her voice when she saw
the man who grabbed her, thinking the
automobile was still on the road in
front of her home, and her father prob
ably thought she was calling daddy"
RELIEVED TO HAVE ENGAGED
IN DESPERATE; STRUGGLE
1t is believed that Isaac Waldrop,
Mrs. Hughes's father, engaged In
struggle with one of the slaycrs before
he was shot and killed. lie had stag
Eered into the front room and fell near
the piano.
It developed that Mrs Hughes had
not been shot, as had been supposed
but her skull was fractured. both lips
were nearly severed and deep cuts were
inflicted in her checks. Drs Taylor
and Hart, her attending physicians, say