Evening star., 1930-06-21
w. L. T. Abrams Regains
Consciousness Ten Hours
After Party.
COMPANIONS TO FACE
DISORDERLY CHARGES
Five Held After Police Find Pa.
tiert Hurt Among Noisy Group
in Apartment.

Regaining consciousness about 10
O'Clock this morning, William Lee Tren-
holm Abrams, 32-year-old real estate
operator, assured police he did not
wish to prosecute any members of
party at 1923 Connecticut avenue last
night, during the course of which he
was felled by glass container supposed
to have been hurled by woman.
While Abrams lay in semi-conscious
condition at Emergency Hospital for 10
hours and physicians treated him for
possible fracture of the skull, police ar
rested and held for questioning five
members of the party, which was held
in the La Sale Apartments.
Several visits were made to Abrams
bedside before investigators could obtain
a coherent statement from him. His
condition was described as serious this
morning, and Abrams was to undergo
X-ray examination later today TO de-
termine if his skull is fractured.
When police learned that Abrams
would not prosecute, they allowed the
others to post collateral on charges of
being drunk and disorderly and released
them.
Party Noisy.
r Tenants told police the party had
been noisy for several hours, when an
uproar broke out about IL o'clock.
Responding to call to No. precinct
from the apartment, Detective S. F.
Gravely and Policemen H. H. Price and
John H. Hoffman found Abrams
stretched on the floor beside the broken
glass. his forehead laid open.
Pieces Of furniture had been over
turned and Abrams was unconscious.
Meanwhile the fire rescue squad and
an Emergency Hospital ambulance
were summoned. Abrams was given
first aid by the ambulance physician
and squad members and then removed
to the hospital
Four members of the party were on
the premises, while police were informed
that two other men left before they
arrived. The four gave their names
at No. precinct as Carolyn Barbour
Fisher, 80 years old, of 828 Eighteenth
street; Hazel Daphne Phillips, 80 years
old, secretary; Shelby Strange Faulkner,
80 years old, attorney, and Ralph
Aloysius Collins, A years old, reporter.
Acting on information given by men,
bers OF the party, police early today
arrested William G. Schauffier, 80 years
old, aviator, at his rooms in the Carlton
Hotel and took him to No precinct
Tor investigation in the affair.
Collins was allowed to post SIS COL
lateral on disorderly conduct charge
and he left the precinct early today.
Girl Booked for Throwing.
Miss Fisher was booked on drunk
and diSorderly counts and also held
for investigation. Police said they were
informed that Miss Fisher threw the
glass at Abrams during an argument
over who should be required to leave
the apartment.
The other women and Faulkner were
charged with being drunk and dis
orderly
The apartment, police reported, was
leased by Mrs. Singleton Stanley who
had gone out to dinner last night and
had not returned when the disturbance
occurred.
Police quoted an apartment attend
ant, John E. Hartman of 1900 Nine
teenth street, as having told them he
saw two men rush out of the building
shortly after some one telephoned from
the upstairs apartment that "a man
has been hurt, please call DOCTOR
He called police, he said Abrams,
who is connected with a well known
real estate firm, is married. He lives
at 1927 Eighteenth street.
A hearing in Police Court will be de-
ferred until Abrams has recovered, po-
lice said.