Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
DEMENTEDFUG|TNE
NEW MADMAN CLUE
St. Elizabeth Reports In
mate Missing-PoIice Find
IS Suspects Innocent.
COMB CITY THOROUGHLY

What the police viewed as a strong
clue to the identity of the madman
who invaded three houses in the north
west section of the city early Friday
morning, shot two women and ehoked
a third, was obtained last night from
st. Elizabeth Hospital. Authorities
there reported man whose descrip-
tion tallies closely with that of the
early morning raider, escaped from
the hospital early in the week and has
not yet been apprehended.
Likely to Commit Such Deed.
This man, whose mental condition
was such, according to hospital au-
thorities, as to cause them to believe
him liable to commit acts such as that
of Friday morning, is thirty years old.
weighs 152 pounds. is five feet. ten
inches tall and a blonde.
This was seized upon eagerly by the
police. who up to its receipt last night
were without clue, despite two days
of the most thorough searching in the
history of the department. Up to mid
night fifteen suspects either had been
taken into custody or their records
investigated, without uncovering any
thing that would point to the assail-
ant
Attacked by Colored Man.
Mrs. Louise Krouse was attacked
while in the doorway of her. home at
616 NJ street northwest last night, but
she told the police her assailant was
colored man. This removed the fear
of the police that the desperate of
Friday morning had started on an
other rampage.
According to the police report
Mrs. Krouse's husband was out at
on the side door of her home. When
she opened the door the colored man
inquired il certain family lived
there, and Mrs. Krouse told him they
did not
AS she answered, she told the
her throat and at the same time
struck her on the head with his fist.
She screamed and the man fed.
According to DR.. N N. Smiler, who
responded with the Emergency Hos
pital ambulance, Mrs. Krouse was
more frightened than hurt. The best
description she could give of the COL
ored man was that he was of large
build and decidedly dark.
Demented Man Accosts Woman.
Mrs. L. Stewart of the Ethelhurst
apartments. 18th and L streets. re-
ported to the police that she was ap-
preached yesterday in Mcpherson
Park. 18th street between 1 and K
streets, by white man who appeared
to be demented. He Kissed at her and
stuck out his tongue, she reported.
Although this park is in the vicinity
Of the houses in which the three wom-
en- were attacked Friday morning, the
police do not believe this was the man
who committed those crimes.
Central office detectives are search
ing for a man who was reported to
them yesterday as possible suspect
by James H. D. Ketner, a special agent
for the Washington Railway and
Electric Company and constable at
Riverdale, Md.
Mr.. ketner told the detectives that
this man was in Riyerdale December
% and made himself Objectionable to
y,v,s< yat
ner told the police he questioned the
man and found that he was from
Baltimore. When asked by Ketner to
identify himself. he produced an en-
velope addressed to Woodrow Will
son. Washington, D. c., and a post
card photograph OF himself. The con-
stable kept the picture and brought it
to police headquarters with him yes
terday
Ketner said the man started toward
Washington the day after he Ques-
toned him.
Baltimore Inquiry Fruitless.
Detective Armstrong returned from
Baltimore last night and reported
that the white man taken from a
W. B. & A. car in that city on
suspicion yesterday afternoon gave
reliable proof that he was in no way
connected with the crimes here. He
showed that he works at the Alex
andria shipyards.
He was arrested on the statement of
a passenger on the car. who said the
shipyard worker spoke to him about
the Washington assaults and then left
his seat on the train.
It was reported to the police last
night that a man resembling the
description given of the fugitive en-
tered the Wilson apartment. 18th
street and New York avenue. yester-
siay afternoon, and asked for some
thing to eat When questioned. he
walked out.
Victims in Dangerous Condition.
Physicians at Emergency Hospital
said last night that the condition of
Miss Lillian Hood and Miss Martha E.
Geagan, the two women shot by the
desperate Friday morning. was dan
eerous, but that both now have a
chance to recover.
League and plain clothes men patrolled
every section of the city all night in
more than fifty automobiles. Lieut..
Howard Fisk. U. S. NJ, directed the
automobile squad from headquarters.
Nearly a hundred armed soldiers of
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