Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-01
POLICEMAN SHOOTS
INSANE MAN AFTER
MANY ARE INJURED
Woman and 10-Year-0Id Boy
Attacked by Apartment
Elevator Operator.
TRIES TO SLASH OFFICER
WITH PIECE OF GLASS
Accused of Attempting to Rob Two
Women on Leaving Duty.
Commanders Cab.

An apparently demented colored ele-
vator operator ran three miles through
the heart of the northwest section OF
the city this morning knocking dowI
every one who crossed his path and was
finally shot by park policeman al
Eleventh and Fairmont streets.
The man, Charles F. Dixon, % years
old, was run down by Park Policeman
Grover Shumaker, at Sixteenth and
Euclid streets. When the policeman at
tempted to arrest him he broke away
and attacked him with jagged piece
of glass. From this point the chase
followed across Euclid to Eleventh,
where the policeman shot Dixon as he
attacked him again with the glass
weapon.
Dixon was taken to Emergency Hos
pital suffering from his wounds, which
were said TO be serious
Dixon, reported by the police to be
q night elevator operator at Cathedral
Mansions apartment house, is said to
have attempted to rob two women when
he came off duty there early this morn
ing. Running from the apartment
house he next was reported near the
wardman Park Hotel where he jumped
from truck and hailed taxicab. The
driver, William P. Vefling, believing him
demented, reached for wrench as the
cab sped away. At Kalorama road and
Connecticut avenue the cab slowed down
frVa IfrrFaF n
out
Followed by the taxi driver he leaped
into a parked car and attempted to
start it. BY this time score of other
persons had taken up the chase and the
fugitive hailed car driven by colored
man and sped to Sixteenth street and
Meridian Park, where he encountered
Snumaker.
Shumaker Submits Report.
Shumaker submitted this report of
the incident to Capt. P. j. Carroll, his
superior ofhcer:
About 9:45 this am. while patrol
Ang my beat in Meridian Hill Park, my
attention was attracted by the screams
of men, women and children on Euclid
street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
street, saw a colored man scantily
clad running east on Euclid street. As
I attempted to place him under arrest
he struck me on the left side of the
face, knocking me down.
He continued running east on Euclid
street, knocking down men as they at
tempted to assist me by trying to stop
him. When he reached the front of
2727 Eleventh street, he ran up to the
door and not being able to open the
door he took his fist and broke the
glass in.
After breaking the glass, again at
tempted to place him under arrest,
when he reached down and picked up
q piece of glass, coming toward me,
saying, I am going to kill you
then reached for my gun and fired.
After I fired he pushed through the
door, and after getting inside picked
up another piece of glass and started
toward me again, saying I am going
to kill you,' when I fired the second
time.
After shooting him the second time,
he fell and managed to hold him down
while a pedestrian called the ambu-
lance"
He was removed to the Emergency
Hospital in their ambulance and treated
by DR.. Lewis for a gunshot wound in
the left and right legs above the knee,
cut on the forehead, a cut on the back
and cut on left elbow.
His condition is said not to be serious.
After being questioned at the Emer-
gency Hospital he gave his name as
Charles Dixon