The Washington herald., 1922-05-18
FATHER And SON
SENTENCED FOR
BEATING HACKER
Benjamin and Aldred
Waters Note Appeal in
Fairfax County.
EYE CLINIC OPENED
Alexandria Health Officer An.
nounces Move to Fight
Optic Troubles.
THE HERALD BUREAU,
A. 8. Doniphan,


A. 8. Doniphan.
727 King Street
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May IL
Benjamin Waters and his son.
Aldred, arraigned today before
Justice J. W. Troth. of Fairfax
County. on a charge of beating
Robert l. Merchant. q hacker, were
sentenced to one year in Jail each
and nned 800 each. Their counsel,
Edmund Burke. noted an appeal.
Both defendants were released on
s2.5oo bond each Merchant was
represented by H. Noel Garner.
Merchant said that the assault
took place last Saturday night on
the public road near the old water
ing trough in Fairfax County,
about two miles south of Alex
andria- He testified he had re-
ceived q telephone call purport-
ing 10 come from a Mr.. Smith
asking that his crippled car be
towed in.
Waters denied that his s6nAldred
had any connection with the as
sault. He also denied he sent the
telsphone message.
DR.. L. z Foulks, city health Of
hcer. announced that beginning
next Friday afternoon and con-
tinuing every Friday thereafter
from l until o'clock there will
- Ill
a special eye clinic. DIR. F. l.
Benton, commander. Medical Corps,
U. s. N. who is now at the Alex
andria Naval Torpedo Station, will
take charge OF the clinic.
The work Of improving four
squares on South Washington
street, between Duke and Frank
lin streets, with a sixty-foot btu
minous macadam roadway Is pro-
ceeding rapidly under the direction
Of City Engineer E. c. Dunn. I'm
provement of the square on Duke
street. between st. Asaph and
Washington streets. with a forty
foot macadam roadway has been
completed. When Washington
street is completed 1t will give
way of that thoroughfare.
The following committees have
been appointed by Mary Custis
Lee Seventeenth virginia Regiment
Confederacy. to have charge of the
Memorial Day exercises which will
be held May "a: Cemeteries. Mrs.
]. z. Alexander. Mrs. c. W. Howell.
and Mrs A. S. Doniphan; music.
Mrs, Anderson, Miss Smoot and
Miss Zimmerman: decorating mound
in Christ Church yard, Mrs George
T. Klipstein and Miss Klipstein;
decorating Confederate mound. Mrs
W. d. Ogden and Mrs. George L
Simpson; decorating truck and ar
ranging for Light Infantry and Boy
Scouts, Mrs. Louis N. Duffey.
Robert South Barrett will ad>
dress the members of the Kiwanis
Club at their weekly luncheon to-
morrow afternoon at the West
minister Building. Many members
of this club will go to Washing
ton tomorrow night as guests OF
the Kiwanis Club az the Hotel
Washington.
Failure to stop his automobile
while an electric train was dis
charging passengers at King and
Patrick streets cost Frank Minor.
colored. SIS today in police court.
Minor was arrested by Policeman
Snellings.
The funeral of Mrs. w. P Camp
bell. OF Potomac. Arlington County,
took place this morning from st.
Rita's Catholic Church. Mount Ida
Services wero conducted by the
Rev. Louis Smet. pastor of st.
Mary's CATHOLIC Church. this city,
and burial was in Mount Olivet
Cemetery. Washington.
The debating team of the Alex
andria High School carried OF third
honors at the annual contest of the
Virginia Literary Society last week
in Charlottesville, Va. The Staun-
ton team came out first and Bristol
second.
Capt. Lawrence E. Gardner, of
the Alexandria Light Infantry, ex-
poets to take the members of that
company to Richmond next Monday
to participate in the parade in con-
nection with the Virginia historical
pageant.
In the Corporation Court today
the suit Of James v. Kelly. admin
istrator. against the Texas Com
pany, to recover $4,000 damages
for the death of the son of plaintiff,
Stanley Kelly, was set for trial
June 20. Stanley Kelly died Au-
gust 2. 1921, from injuries received
when, 1t is alleged. a truck of the
defendant company struck a motor
cycle driven by Kelly.