The Washington times., 1919-01-26
HATlESS stranger
MAY Be MADMAN
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to lead into Virginia. They will cover !
every probable route taken by the hat 7,
less stranger.
Notice has been sent TO half q \
dozen Virginia and Maryland towns to
| be on the lookout for a man who may
be seeking to purchase q hat or cap
and who answers the description fur
nished by. the three Washington vic
| Tins.
Falls Church residents who saw the
] stranger Friday morning said they
I had never seen him before In that
town. The stranger was described as
being of medium build, fairly we'll
dressed, and having the appearance
| Of a clerk.
| May Have walked.
1t is pointed out that the stranger
could easily have walked from wash
ington to Falls Church between the
time he was last heard Of here-l:l5
a. m.-and the hour at which he was
seen in the Yirsintf town. about IL
washington was like an j armed
camp last night.
More than 500. policemen. dstec-
tives, soldiers and Home Defense
League members patrolled the streets
with rifles and automatics.
Hundreds of persons returning to
their homes early today were .ac-
costed and questioned. Each had to
give a satisfactory account OF him
self.
This is one Of the moves of the
police in their efforts to apprehend
the mad man OF the northwest"
should he still be in the city.
| Nab Score Of ssspeets-
Nearly a score Of suspects have
been taken to police headquarters
and examined. Two Of them proved
patients escaped from the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. The
others could not be connected in any
way with the series Of early morning
crimes.
A man who acted "queerly" on a
Washington, Baltimorei Annapolis
electric car was arrested IN Baltt-
more yesterday afternoon. 1t devel-
oped that he was an employe At the
shipyards here and had no connec-
ton with the crimes. He was re-
leased.
While the police are awake TO the
possibility Of another outbreak OF the
mademan, who is apparently keeping
under cover, some persons hold to the
opinion that the man being sought ID
not a dangerous maniac, but de-
generate Of a low moral type who
went on a rampage to accomplish the
aims of an abnormal brain.
Seek Escaped Patient.
Orders were flashed last night 70
all police, detectives and volunteer
patrols to look out for Edwin Kaiser,
who escaped from the Government
Hospital for the Insane some time last
Monday.
According to hospital authorities
Kaiser Is thirty years Of age, hve feet
: and nine inches in height, has black
!. hair, blue eyes, q high forehead, and
when last seen was wearing q gray
suit, q black overcoat, and tan shoes
He Is said to weigh 152 pounds.
Kaiser has been confined to the hos
pital for slight mental disorders.
III James Trotskey, another escaped
III patient, who was one time thought q
possible suspect has been captured
and. returned to the hospital for the
| insane
IL Victim's Mother Arrives.
II Mrs. Mary A. Hood, mother Of Mis-
Lillian Hood, the madman's secont
| victim, arrived in Washington las
III night after a thirty-one-hour ride. ant
went to Emergency Hospital, wher'
III she kept an all-night vigil by he
daughters bedside.
II Today Miss Hood is being takel
care Of by her niece. Miss Matte
III Moore, also of Brownsville, Tenn, al
employe OF the War Risk Insurance
Bureau. who lives at 90S Eye stree
northwest. Miss Moore met her a
III Union Station and both went In a tax
i to the hospital: None but the mothe
was allowed in the ward last night
Mrs. Hood has been provided witt
a room at e26 I street, which. by
strange coincidence. houses five othe
girls from Brownsville, Tenn, ltttl
town OF not quite 5000 souls abou
fifty miles east OF Memphis
Unlike the other two houses visite'
by the, madman. at Miss. OKeefe'
boarding house, 1887 L street. no par
ticular precautions were taken Z
guard against another visit from tn
II midnight marauder. The front door
of the two houses at 1887 and 1SS
were left unlocked as usual for room
ers returning late and most OF IN
windows were opened to allow fresl
air in the sleeping-rooms.
Doesn't Fear second visit.
lightning never strikes twice in tn
same place" said Miss o'Keefe, pro
| prietress of the rooming house, "an'
| after the battle that brave girl gav'
him, l don't think he will ever COM
back here.
II "Of course, that doesn't mean tha
some other desperado may not try tn,
II same thing at some future time. aEC
am going to take immediate step'
to guard against IL. 1 may have al
Of the exposed windows barred, but
I think the best plan is to get a bulldoE
/ and let him have the run of the hous'
i at night.
"It is out of the question to keeI