The Washington times., 1922-03-25
AC(;US T D
Me n FACE
CLERK THIS
AFTERNOON.
Victim Will Try to Make Iden-
tification-klan Will Op-
pose Lynching.

Two young negroes, Robert
Lewis, twenty-one years old, and
Herbert Hill, sixteen years old, will
De taken this afternoon before Miss
Agnes M. Hawken, who was crin,i-
nally assaulted Thursday night at
her home at Jackson Station, three
miles from Mclean, Vaa
One May Be Held.
Lewis and Hill were arrested this
morning on suspicion of having
some knowledge of the crime, which
has stirred all Fairfax county.
Miss Hawken, who has sufficiently
recovered to look at the two men,
will be asked to identify either of
them.
Failure to identify Lewis will not
result in his release, il was ind.
Gated at noon today by Wilson M.
Farr. assistant Commemorative at
torney OF Fairfax county.
Virginia authorities today are
fchecking up on Lewis moSemcats
preceding the assault on Miss
Hawken. They declare that thus
far Lewis story does not tally with
other sources.
Investigation this morning brought
out that Conductor Dawson, of the
Washington and Old Dominion rail
way, saw Lewis alight from his car
at Jackson Station at 4:37 Thursday
afternoon, a few hours preceding the
crime. Lewis declares that he did not
leave Washington until o'clock and
that he rode direct to Glendale, few
miles above jackson, reaching there
about s o'clock.
Police Magistrate Clifton Laugh
lin, of Mclean, interviewed Dawson
this morning. He is also checking
up on Lewis statement that a col
ored man named Jeff Carter, EN-
ploye OF the Sewer Department in
Washington, got on the car with
him in Washington at O'Clock.
Up to noon today Carter had not
been located.
Attorney Farr ss.examined
Lewis this morning.
Your story and what we have
found out don't jibe," Attorney
Farr told Lewis.
I'm sorry it don't. but that's the
truth" retorted Lewis.
The arrest of Hill was made
shortly after noon. The young COL
ored boy lives within a mile Of the
Hawken home and he answers
somewhat to the assailant's de-
scription. as furnished by Miss
Hawken.
Employed at Dairy.
According to Lewis story he is
employed at Wise Brothers dairy, at
2208 N street, and on the day of the
crime worked until 6:45, catching the
7 o'clock car at Thirty-sixth and M
street for his home in Virginia.
Inquiry at the dairy this morning
however, failed to show any record
Of Lewis employment there.
"If Lewis worked for us, it was
under some other name," Mr.. Wise
said this morning. The majority Of
their laborers, he said, finished about
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Lewis is regarded by Magistrate
Laughlin as "a bad character" Sew
eral years ago he was sent to the
penitentiary for slashing the throat
OF a conductor on the Washington
and Old Dominion line. He has been
out of Jail but a few months.
The authorities planned to go TO
Glendale this morning to make the
arrest. Magistrate Laughlin, how
ever, who was waiting at the Nc
Lean station, saw Lewis on an Old
Dominion car. jumped aboard, and
arrested him.
Six Arrested, Five Freed.
Seven arrests of young negcoes
have already been made. Five of
them were released after proving
alibis as to their whereabouts on
Thursday night.
The town of Mclean is aroused
over the assault, which is declared
to be "one OF the most brutal in
the history Of Fairfax county" 1t
has it's only rival in the famous
Eva Roy case at Fairfax. Va, sew.
eral years ago. Eva, fifteen-year-
old daughter of Peter Roy, a
farmer, was assaulted and then
beaten to death. The perpretrator
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