The Washington herald., 1919-08-18
Posses and Camp
Meade Troops in
Hunt for Slayer
George Peter Shot Down in His Dooryard in
Prince Georges County, Nd; Murderer,
In Pillagng House, Fires Six Times at
Daughter of the Man He Had Slain.

Posses and of soldiers from Camp Meade securing
Prince Georges and Anne Arundel morning quest
robber who yesterday afternoon George
Peter farmer his home Station daugh-
ter, Miss Catherine Peter, % years old
Miss Peter is death Emergency Hospital Washing
ton, where she taken after being picked up
road tracks of the Baltimore Potomac Railroad
there from her home though wounded
Physicians the hospital
long enough hear her story.
The body OF the farmer discovered by young
daughter when they church
service Bowie.
Negro Appears the Peter Home.
According the of the wounded young before
psed into put appearance
Peter home short before younger daughter
had left for Bowie At the Mr feeding
the little yard in front of the cottage.
The intruder powerful asked Nj Peter for supply of
wood When Nj Peter replied that he could the robber
drew ugylooking revolver and Aourished it
Miss Peter stairs when she heard the shots She
her father shooting crows
When she the coming up stairs croucbed in
and waited for what she thought The inevitable
1t that in his excitement the had
up the stairs He walked esu up the scs and BEGAN systematic
page Bureau and cabinet empGd the floor
and everything of value that the could find together
in d corner OF the
Demands Money Shoots Girl.
Miss Peter spying him through slight opening Of
her when the suddenly sried called for her to
He roughly pulled her out He
demanded She gripped inside
refused to out when the ordered her o
He slowly reloaded his threatened her with H. She
did and he opened fire, pying
Six OF the bullets penetrated til door
point failed except that she remembers
pain DESPERATION she aroused herself
and orawed down the and from the house
and again became unconscious.
Mother and Children Return to Scene
In children returned from
The church body Peter They began
search for Miss Peter but unable her They
alarm nearby places organized to
investigate the crime For hours they that
committed by
negro attacked Miss Peter for when she was
found beside the railroad tracks by the Of train which passed
Bowie o'clock she only garments She
saturated with blood This train was
bound toward Baltimore the trip was
and bound for Washington stopped and the
girl placed brought to the Emergency Hospital in this
Only did young open eyes as she
being placed on the train She piled with
only able to "a did it,"
She revived sufficiently hospital terrible de-
The hunt thereafter began country for miles
patrod all afternoon Provost guards
from Camp Meade and other soldiers volunteered their
joined posses
Washington were notified and kep.
lookout at the railroad stations all night is the belief
however that the murderer hiding the Bowie
Preferred Death Dishonor by Negro.
girl murder pre-
ferrng death dshono the told to the
hospital after the operation that her life
g" told the would rather die than dshonored" she
gasped the the hospital ambulance from,
where the ambulance answer 70
by train dispatcher along the way
e" said death and meant it, is much better way" she
said
Saw Smoking Pistol in Negroes
Miss Peter the with the smoking pistol in his
the did she realize what happened her
father.
when he stopped the drawer room thought Of
springng and hitting him the head" but had
nothing with which make the attack At his told him
whisky in the cellar but he 10 GO
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