The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-01-26
HATLESS STRANGER
MAY Be MADNAN
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to lead into Virginia. They viii cover ]
every probable route taken by the hat I
/ less stranger.
! Notice has been sent to half a
| 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
inston to Falls Church between the
time he was last heard Of here-4:15
a. m.-and the hour at which he was
seen in the virginia town. about II
| o'clock
washington was like an 1. armed
camp last night.
More than 500 policemen, dstec-
1 LlNe8, SOiQlcE5 OSAOASS
League members patroIled the streets
with rifles and automatics.
Hundreds Of persons returning to
their homes early today were &C
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 suspeetA-
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
i crimes.
A man who acted "queerly" on
washington, Baltimoref Annapolis
electric car was arrested IN Baltt-
more yesterday afternoon 1t deVei-
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
1
under cover, some persons hold to the
opinion that the man being sought IL
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 Eseaped Patient.
Orders were flashed last night to
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, fVe feet
and nine inches in height, has black
hair, blue eyes, a high forehead, and
when last seen was wearing gray
! suft. a black overcoat, and tan shoes.
He Is said to weigh 152 pounds.
Kaiser has been confined to the hos
pital for slight mental disorders.
James Trotskey, another escaped
patient, who was one time thought
possible suspect, has been captured
and. returned to the hospital for the
insane.
VIetIna's Mother Arrives.
Mrs. Mary A. Hood, mother Of Miss
Lillian Hood, the madman's. second
victim, arrived in Washington last
| night after a thirty-one-hour ride, and
went to Emergency Hospital, where
she kept an all-night vigil by her
daughters bedside.
III Today Miss Hood Is being taken
/ care Of by her niece. Miss Matte A.
Moore. also Of Brownsville, Tenn, an
empIoye OF the War Risk Insurance
I Bureau, who lives at 9OS Eye street
/ northwest. Miss Moore met her at
| Union Station and both went in a taxi
: | to the hospital: None but the mother
| was allowed in the ward last night
II Mrs. Hood has been provided with
| a room at 926 street, which, oy
strange coincidence. houses five other
girls from Brownsville, Tenn, q little
town OF not quite 5000 souls about
| fifty miles east OF Memphis
Unlike the other two houses visited
by the, mailman. at Miss y heeIe
boarding house, 1881 L street, no par
ticnIar precautions were taken to
guard against another visit from the
midnight marauder. The front doors
Of the two houses at 1887 and 1889
were left unlocked as usual for room
ers returning late and most OF the
windows were opened to allow fresh
air in the sleeping-rooms.
Doesn't Fear Second Visit.
II lightning never strikes twice in the
| same place" said Miss O'Keefe, pro-
prietress of the rooming house, and
after the battle that brave girl gave
him. 1 don't think he will ever come
back here.
"Of course. that doesn't mean that
some other desperate may not try the
| same thing at some future time. ard
I am going to take immediate steps
m guard against il. I may have all
OF the exposed windows barred cut
think the best plan is to get bulldog
and let him have the run OF the house
at night.
cit is out of the question to keep
the windows shut and locked when
the weather gets warm, and IT Is
very unhealthy thing to do now in
sleeping rooms"
At both 1912 Connecticut avenue and
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