Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-01
ROUND Up
IS CAR STRIKERS
Authorities Now Believe Sew
enteen Were Implicated in
Wrecking of Car.
BAIL IS FIXED AT 5000

Police officials now are convinced that
seventeen of the striking employees Of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company were implicated IN the wreck
ing of a car on the Anacostia line last
Tuesday night. They believe that a
majority of these seventeen men were
on the scene when Conductor Henry
Davis and Motorman Charles Bosom
were driven from the car just before
it was turned loose at I'd and E streets
southeast and started down the grade
to L and Canal streets, where it
jumped the tracks, uprooted a tree.
smashed a lamp post and was demol-
ished.
Early this morning fifteen of the .sus-
pected striking street car men were taken
to police headquarters, where they We're
auizzed in an effort to learn what on
~nection, if any, they had with the wreck
ing Of the car. Afterward the men Were
held on technical charges, the police re-
fusing to give any information as to the
result Of the examination.
Detectives Frank Baur and Thomas
Sweeney made the first arrests Friday
afternoon, when they took into Gus
tody Harry c. Breeder. S13 Mount Yer
non place. and Herman Roach, 307 .
street southwest. The prisoners were
taken into Inspector Grants office aud
closely questioned, but, 1t is stated,
they denied knowledge of the affair.
Following this Detectives II. II. Pratt.
C. A. Evans. III. r. Warren, L. w. Boyle,
F. S. Hughlett. q. Z. Burlingame and
w. .. Embrey We're pressed into serv-
ice.
The nine detectives remained on duty
practically the entire night and all day
yesterday, taking only rest enough to
IN u hla than m ha nm hand Inaf niOhf
and endeavor to round up other strik-
ers believed to have taken part In the
car-smashing incident or to have par
ticipated in the conspiracy said to have
been formed early the night the car
was smashed.
Additional Arrests Made.
In addition to Roach and Breeder.
these men were arrested in connection
with the case: Charles p. Oliff, TWEEN
ty-six years, conductor. 1920 U street;
Charles j. Whitman, thirty-ntne
years, motorman. 1741 s street; Cissell
B.. Hathaway. twenty-five years, col
ductor, 1907 9Th street southwest; John
W. Twiford, fifty years, motorman. SIS
Maryland avenue southwest: Roy W.
Saunders, thirty-two years, conductor.
oVo MAI ant AVENUE soulHWS sts Joecph
Walters. twenty-eight years. motor.
man, 1924 Az street southwest; Brady
Kane, twenty-one years. conductor. 4s2
N street southwest; Charles C. Hudson.
motorman, twenty-three years. $50 N
street southwest; Edgar Poore, thirty
one years, conductor. $40 l street south
west; Daniel H. Fritter, twenty-eight
years, motorman, 1913 9Th street south
west; Solomon S. Mcintyre, forty years.
motorman, 1245 9Th street southwest;
Harry r. Fisher, twenty-four years,
Charles p. Kienle, twenty-six years old,
motorman, 4S2 M street southwest.
Most of the arrests were made during
the early hours of yesterday, the suDs
poets being taken from their beds ana
hurried to police headquarters In aTQS
mobiles. Only two Of the men arrested
up to an early hour last night are un.
married. and some of them have small
| children. Wives OF some of the SUI.
! poets followed them to headquarters,
while others remained at their homes
until after daybreak before venturing
out.
1t is stated that none of the suspects
ever had been placed under arrest be-
| fore and their experience was anything
| but pleasant. Some of the younger
! men are said to have failed to appre-
ciate the seriousness of the affair until
they faced iron bars in police stations.
and the sight of the bars moved them
to tears. The wife of one of the pris-
oners, who was deeply affected by his
arrest, impressed upon him that their
family motto always had been Hon
esty is the best policy" as she left the
room.