The Washington times., 1923-07-16
AIS
AND COPS
DRIVE n
HARD
Two Policemen Beaten Up by
Mobs-Guns, Knives, and
Autos Add Casualties.

At midnight last night WASH
ington saw an end to one Of the
bloodiest and most disorderly Sum
days the National Capital has
ever seen. During the twenty
foug hour period ending at that
tim local hospitals and dis
pessries were hard put to take
casa Of the steady stream Of IN
juFod and dying that came to
their doors.
Two Are Killed.
This morning found the clerks
in the various station houses busy
making out papers charging every
thing from murder and man.
slaughter to assault and disorderly
conduct. A brief tabulation of the
days wave Of violence and blood.
shed, resembling in no little re-
spect the casualties Of a front hne
trench, is:
Two men were killed.
Four were shot, one perhaps
fatally.
Two policemen were badly beaten
by mobs.
A drink crazed negro ran amuclk
with a knife and was captured only
after a desperate struggle with an
unarmed policeman. 81
In a series of fights and near
riots. fifteen were injured. Among
these are six who are believed near
death.
A score or more of automobile
collisions in which several were In.
jured.
One man shot accidentally by a
soldier.
y Father Kills Son.
Enraged when his son disputed
his word in an argument, Albert
Madison, colored, forty-eight, Of 1719
Clicks alley northwest, grabbed a
pistol and started shooting. When
the smoke had cleared away, his
son, Ernest Madison, twenty-seven.
lay on the floor dead and Samuel
Brent, twenty-three, of 1907 Sher-
man avenue northwest, was grovel-
ling on bed in what physicians
say was the attempt of a dying
man to forestall death. Brent Is at
the Freedman's hospital, uncon.
scious. His physicians say that he
has small chance to recover. The
elder Madison walked into the
Eighth precinct station and sur
rendered while a score of detec.
tives and policemen were combing
the city for him. He is charged
with murder.
A racing motor car swept Peter
Green, colored. forty-two, Of 732
ST. Mary's court northwest, into the
path of another machine. His
crumpled body was rushed to the
Emergency Hospital. He was dead.
physicians said, when he got there.
An hour later, at o'clock this
morning, Detective Sergeant Fow-
Ter arrested Joseph Jones, colored,
of 903 Twenty-seventh street, al.
legged driver of the death car. He
is being held at the Third precinct
for the coroner's jury. Green was
struck near Twenty-fourth street
and Virginia avenue northwest.
Cop Fights Gang.
Policeman G. w. Absher: of the
Fifth precinct, shot his way out of
serious trouble yesterday when a
gang of fifty negroes attacked him
as he was taking a colored prisoner
to the patrol box near Fourteenth
and G streets southeast. With
bricks, stones and bottles falling
around him. Absher pulled his serv-
ice gun and fired twice into, the
mob. John Marshall, col.
ored, 1926 G street southeast, fell
with a bullet wound in his abdo.
men.
Again the mob advanced and
again the policeman's gun barked.
Another negro fell. He was picked
up by his companions and hurried
off in an automobile. The mob gave
ground and when the reserves ar
rived all was peaceful. Marshall is
IN a critical condition at Casualty
and Policeman AbSher Is at his
home suffering from cuts and
bruises. The wounded negro was
carried off and is still at large.
Both Policeman ]. ]. Tolson,
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