The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-13
BOY SAYS SHOOTING
!. WAS AN ACCIgNT
Edward Grinder. TeIIshow he
Got the Pistol NE Car
.ried. 4
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for And as he ~ up to s the perry ,ay
poor little gin wa one. some one .saidi
to BIN. Eddie. W., S q piS Sset ~ roSRbiy.
mo, don't waIa piece Of candy. but
am going to foot Elsie. ~,
Standing in cell, Grinder tells
different tale. According to his story.
there was , Of any w pre% eensed
5" Miss sa/ey accidentally throwing
her hand aHinst the gun.
Grinder a}nitted that there had been
some trouIe some time ago between n
that there had been any sort of a quar-
I'VE VA been keeping steady COM
pany," said. and she started going
with .s s Sns t sss ser t ts.t 0 there w %as
no dnfrel between us, but that we
wounhot be steady company any more.
we 9TH agreed to this. However, l
vert with her q good deal after that,
and NE were fine friends. / tell you 1t
ss|entirely accidental"
III How He Got Revolver.
The youth admitted that he had no
pufmit to carry a pistol He described
TIE way he got the revolver.
'I"I borrowed q gun from a kid some
fine aasoo, and Just . a few s.. MINUTES ties
kid for 1t. Then 1 called to the kid.
and gave him back the gun; the cop
searched me and did not find 1t.
"a day or 80 after the Kid came TO
me, and in Joking way ! told him
run me in and ] had been fined for 1t.
money out OF the kid. SO he told me
that he would give me the gun. and
i Zone ne Of the triggers Of the gun is
broken, and so 1t goes off easily.
When / walked up to the group last
night, took out the pistol to Eslow
the broken , trissss 70 El;is she
off. 1t was entirely accidental.
Was almost crazy"
II was almost crazy then. walked
about nine blocks before knew what
l was doing. / haunted any place
where 1 could find out about her.
Then finally ] went home. ! was SO
scared when the officers came that l
ran to the shed and got on the roof.
when they came 1 got under pile
Of bed ticking in the loft. Then they
pulled me out. and 1 saw that there
were three OF them and II was no use.
! reached to my hip pocket and pre-
ssntsd the gun 20 them. the muzzle IN
According to the detectives who ar
p pssssbly Grinder he did not come
Elsie Sacrey lived with her grand
mother at s$ Virginia avenue southwest
Her mother died about three years ago
and her father. HA II. Sacrey, REMARKED
and has left the city.
Released From Reform School.
Young Grinder Is seventeen years old
and was released from the reform
school only last May. His mother ID
sai dto be IN nm asylum at present. ant
Nc lived with his father at rs Nintl
street northwest. He was employed at
Seventh street southwest bakery Mis-
Sacrcy worked at Judd & Detweiler's
First street and Florida avenue north
east.
The arrest of the youth was made p!
Ohtcers Embrey. Evans. Baur and Kelly
who have the case in charge. 1t wal
only after an exciting chase that the!
were able to Apprehend him. He wa
seen standing near the Emergency Hos
pital shortly after the wounded girl wa
carried there. The police were notified
but when they arrived he had disap
peared.
He went to a grocery at Eighteenth
and e streets northwest and had tn
proprietor call up the hospital and asl
about Miss Sacrey's condition. He Il
said then TO have darted from the stor'
and made for Potomac Park, Sergt.
Willard Green gave chase in fast auto
mobile. while Bicycle Policeman r. E
Drumond, of the Second precinct, PICKED
UP the trail, but lost II.
Found In Clubhouse.
About midnight Police Headquarterl
learned that Grinder had returned I,
the home OF his relatives, and Contra
Office Detectives Evans. Kelly, ant
Embrey, and Sergeant Evaas and Pc
liceman Jackson went there. Will,
two OF the officers covered the hous,
the others went inside.
Grinder Ned before them. and ran t,
an clubhouse. Climbing to the loft, h,
covered himself with pile of be,
ticking When the detectives searched
they found him under II.
Detective Kelly pulled him out.