Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
ALEXANDRIA POLICE
SLAYER DECLARED
KNOWN TO OOFF|CERS
Believed to Be Man Who
Recently Escaped After
Arrest.
SERGT. McCLARY KILLED
IN RUM INVESTIGATION
Mayor Offers $1,000 Reward for
Apprehension of Murderer
Said to Be Colored.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 21.-More
than score of colored men and women
picked up in the dragnet spread by
police last night following the fatal
shooting Of Police Sergt. Charles r
McClary, 80, by an unidentified colored
man, we're to be questioned today by
local authorities. Struck by .32-caliber
steel-1acket bullet, which entered near
the left shoulder and plowed through
his neck. cutting a jugular vein, Nc
Clary died almost instantly. The slayer
made good his escape, while several
witnesses to the crime cringed in hor-
ror on their doorsteps in the 500 block
North Patrick street, as the man dis
appeared into the night.
Less than Is minutes after the slay-
ing, 1000 citizens were gathered in
front Of the police station. many armed
with pistols and rifles. and there was
no doubt in the minds Of local police
but that lynching party would have
been organized had the murderer been
apprehended.
Search for Suspect.
Alexandria Police definitely estab-
ished this afternoon that kid" Lilly,
51-year-old colored man, wanted in
Wilson County, N. c., for the murder
of a policeman in 1922, who was ar
rested in Alexandria Tuesday and later
escaped, was seen in the same block
of the city last night where Oficer
McClary was killed, shortly before the
staying.
The clothes Lilly was wearing at the
time correspond with the description
furnished police by eyewitnesses of the
murder. Lilly also had flashing gold
teeth which fit the description Of the
slayer. His height and weight also
correspond with the given description.
Lilly was seen by four people in the
neighborhood of the crime, who told
Police Capt. w. w. Campbell that he
was carrying revolver and proudly
displaying 1t.
Lilly was arrested In Alexandris
June by Sergt. McClary and other
officers and Tuesday was turned over
to Chatham, Va, police, who were pre-
pairing to send him to North Carolina
to answer to the murder charge there.
He leaped from bus, handcuffed, while
being transported to Chatham and
escaped. A search has been going on
for him ever since and reward OF
81 200 was offered for his apprehension.
McClary, accompanied by Detective
Sergt. Edgar Sims, left police head
quarters about 8:45 o'clock last night
after conversing with Capt. Campbell
and Police Sergt George Eberly. They
drove to the 500 block North Patrick
street, parked Sims machine and made
their way into an alley behind a colored
dwelling notorious for the sale OF liquor
McClary Entered Aneyway.
The two policemen stood in the alley
watching four colored men and two col
ored women sitting on huge box in the
rear yard of 523 North Patrick street
when McClary, without saying word to
Sims, suddenly went through hole In
the fence Of an adjoining yard and en-
tered a narrow alleyway leading between
523 and 525 into Patrick street.
AS he entered the alley, according to
reconstruction of the crime from state
ments made by Sims and three colored
persons, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Price and
Phoebe Reynolds of SGT North Patrick
street, the latter three Of whom were
eyewitnesses to the actual murder,
McClary called out to a colored man
who was making his way through the
narrow alley toward the street.
Man Refuses to Stop.
The man refused to stop, and Nc
Clary quickened his pace and nearly
caught up with him as they gained
Patrick street. The man suddenly
wheeled and fired four shots point blank
at the policeman. Only the fatal bullet
which entered his throat, struck Nc
Clary.
Sims, who was still watching the six
people in the back yard from his posi-
ton behind the fence, ran down q
large alley so feet to the north OF
where he was standing and had nearly
reached the street when McClary sud-
denly appeared around the corner
lunged toward Sims and threw his
arms around the detectives shoulder.
"They did it," McClary muttered, and
then lapsed into Inconsistencies. Sims
said that McClary's gun had not been
removed from its holster. The detec-
tive laid McClary down in the alley
and raced into the middle of the street
in hopes of catching sight of the col
ored man, but he had disappeared.
Ordering Price, who had been sitting
on his doorsteps with his wife and
the Reynolds woman, to turn in a cal
to police headquarters, Sims, with the
aid Of Paul Robey, placed the wounded
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