The Washington times., 1919-01-31

will leave Union Station at 5 O'Clock
! tomorrow morning.
To BE Rprfed sunday.
The party wlll arrive in Browns
willie at noon Sunday and funeral SER
vices will be. held at the Browns
vile Methodist Episcopal Church
any sort will mark the departure of
the body frOm Washington.
she died with a smile ON her
face" was the story the heartbrolIen
mother of Miss Hood told a Times
reporter today. ''She was sueh a
quiet Christian girl, the best who
ever lived-a Sunday school scholar
ever since she could toddle to the
church
She told me last night just before
she died that she hated to lesve us.
but wasn't afraid to die. She knew
us TO the very last, and was consci-
Gus that she was dying. but talked to
us as long as she had the strength
! TO. She said it was Codes will that
she must go.
Lillian was always active in char
liable and church work in B-oWns-
Vile. have nine living Children. and
she helped me to raise most OF them"
Expected to Recover.
Up TO Wednesday night Miss Hoods
condition was decidedly favorable and
DR.. J. Ward Mankin, superintendent
Of the Emergency Hospital, stated TO
later than that morning that he ox-
pected to be able to discharge her in
three weeks at the latest.
The tubes in her intestines- had
been removed, and the stitches from
the operation were ready--to be re-
moved when a turn for the worse
came Wednesday night.
Miss Hood came TO Washington on
January Is of last year. after learn
ing stenOgraphy and typewriting i'm
her home town, TO do her bit in the
great war. She has been employed as
a stenographed in the Ordnance De-
partmeRt, at Seventh and streets,
ever since.
She was a member of the Mt. Ver-I
non Flace Methodist Episcopal
Church South of this city, and presi- :
dent Of the Young WomeRs Christian |
Association branch of the church.
Miss Hood received her fatal wound /
during a struggle with the maujac |
after he had entered her room in the /
boarding house of Miss Nellie O'Ksese, |
1887 L street northwest, early Iast |
Friday morning.
The police are working desperate
ly TO find the man who shot the two /
women and choked another" declared /
Inspector Grant, chief of detectives
this morning. "The case will not go
down as unsolved. 1t is goinS u be |
solved, and l believe, I'm a few days,
we will have something tangible |
which will result in the arrest Of the
man.
Are Watching suspect.
There have been many angles which i
have had to be investigated, aud how
we are sitting them out. We have
suspect whom we expected t. ,aks
into custody, and whom we believe
will be able TO help us solve the mys-
terry"
20 A clergyman VINO was questi onel
by the police the day after the three
Washington women were attacked
has been eliminated from the case.
according to Inspector Grant.
This man was eliminated from the /
case last Saturday" declared Inspec- |
tor Grant to The Times this morning. 4
Have you any definite clue which
you expect will result i'm an arrest
Of the murderer" Inspector Grant /
was asked, after he declared he had
the clergyman and the \
owner of the suit from the case.
Yes, we are working on a clue /!
which we hope will result in the cap i
lure of the man." said Inspector
Grant. "The arrest might come at I
any time. We have some strong evi-
dence which seems to implicate a
white man, and 1 expect that further
Investigation will result in his ar
rest"
Inspector Grant said he felt certain
the man who attacked the women is
white. 'He is not a negro" said
Grant 81 feel positive of that"