Evening star., 1919-04-27
POLICEMEN HUNT
t FOR ESCAPED MAN
Search VainIy for Herbert
Copeland in Boiling Field
- Neighborhood.
CLUES PROVE DECEPTIVE

%Snformatien from two apparently
reliable sources received by police
.od6cials late yesterday afternoon made
1T appear that Herbert l.. Copeland.
.solored slayer, who escaped from the
District Jail last Monday morning.
was in hiding in the vicinity of Boil
ing Field. 1t was reported that he
was intrenched in a shack, and was
hrmed with two rifles and revolver.
While Maj Pullman and Inspector
Grant were arranging to have the
police land and water forces partici-
pate in the hunt. Detectives Baur and
Sweeney appeared at headquarters
Fith similar information as to Cope
land
= Police officials were further inform :
ed that the fugitive slayer was being
fed by persons who carried food from
sshe city. Messages were sent TO the
several police precincts SuInmoning
deserves to take part in the man hunt.
& Military Police Called In.
= In addition to the policemen and
detectives. Maj. Pullman called in a
large detachment OF military police
Tmeu. and Capt. Charles Roberts of
:E9he "a eleventh precinct Home Defense
services of his branch OF that organ
ization. Lieut.. Dean of the harbor
Precinct was in charge of two squads
gasoline launch Maj Sylvester. Mai.
RuIlman thinking Copeland might >try
Y escape across the river in a boat
Gould he be located.
A&ation the armed men. many of them
, &arrying rifles. made their way to the
lywlands in the Vicinity of the steel
giant. Boiling Field and st. Elizabeth
hospital. searching shacks in Pencote
Woods and visiting houses. but at no
Rouse did an occupant admit having
seen any. individual resembling the
aRyer A particular shack in which
,tApeland was said to be hiding was
4t located. and the police concluded
there was no such place.
Nodded Keys Found.
in the woods near ST. Eliza beth
hospital the searchers came across
Come queer looking shacks occupied
s. was stated. by paroled patients
fEom the government hospital. Others.
X was stated. were occupied by
petIents not paroled. the latter being
% the grounds of the institution. In
oae rudely constructed place occupied
man who is elassed as an inmate
.0& the hospital. the searchers found q
I@mber of keys that had been mold
90 of a soft metal, and one of the
I4icemen on that beat told Mai. Pull
nan and inspector Grant that the man
~no nodded them was train robber
r. ti1u SCSh daJ0OScu insane ana
,t1mmitted to the hospital Detective
.ANrlingam took possession of a num-
tar of the keys.
Night came on and the searchers re-
turned to the eleventh precinct police
se4atlon In Anacostia, where they were
.Iaet by the superintendent of police
aSd chief o. detectives A new clue
'1aced the fugitive some distance
02wn the road in the direction of Blue
.t1ains the htme for the INDECENT aged
sd infirm people Of the District.
Z Two Farms Are Visited.
Eour automobiles bearing more than
~ score of armed men soon were
on their way there, and a sharp turn
C1er a private road leading toward
SR river brought the searchers to a
Aase under construction on the farm
o. Harry Sweeney The uaanish cd
strucfure was not occupied
next the searchers visited the barx
-A9 the farm. where Detective Joe Nor
ssan soon warned his associates that
.19e business end of mule was the
3aniy thing in sight to endanger their
Igyes- The next clue took them to the
agruder farm on a high elevation
S2yeriook1ng the river and Alexandria
114yono. Dut nothing to suggest the pres
egce Of the Fugitive was found.
IN was after o'clock when the auto
sohues carrying the searchers re-
Nqrned to the eleventh precinct police
zxSOon- where the men were told the
XAarch was ended and they miaht 90
home, and it was a happy homeroine
zar many Of them, very few Of them
Ting been home since e4Sly morn
16at time. -