The Washington times., 1930-03-01
DENENTED MAN
RUNS ANUCK,
SHOT DOWN


and hailed a taxicab driven by
William P. Verling, of the 4400
block Fifth st. N. w.
Leaps From Taxi
According to Verling, Dixson
said:
"Drive me home"
"Where do you live" Verling
said.
TRY and find out" the man
said an dbegan groaning and
shaking.
Believing he was crazy, verling
said, he reached for monkey
wrench and kept 1t within reach.
At Connecticut, Avenue and
Kalorama Road, the driver de.
clared he stopped for a red light
when his passenger shouted "Step
on it" and then leaped from the
cab. Verling followed him down
Connecticut Avenue to Kalorama
Road. where he jumped into
parked Packard and tried to start
IT.
The chauffeur, who was stand
ing nearby, struggled with him
and he leaped in front of another
car, occupied by four colored
people, which stopped before it
hit him. He rode in this car to
Columbia Road and Wyoming
Avenue and then jumped out,
Verling said. Verling and an
other taxi driver were following
him in their cabs.
Attacks Small Boy
A coal hustler was putting coal
in coal hole with a tin wash
tub. David Harger, 10 years old,
300 block Mt. Pleasant St., was
watching the coal hustler.
Shovel that COAL" Verling says
Dixson shouted at the boy, and
followed it up by knocking the
boy down. He then turned his
attention to the coal hustler and
slapped the tub of coal off his
shoulder half way across the
street.
The coal hustler dived into the
hole, Verling said.
Verling then got out of his cab
and grabbed the shovel, fearful
that he would use it on the boy.
He said he knocked the demented
down, where he stayed three sec
onds and got up. Just then an
other taxi driver, armed with a
taxicab crank, came up and the
two went to work on Dixson.
VerIing said he hit him over
the head three times without
feazing him and that, suddenly,
he started to run east on COlum-
bia Road. Every person he
passed on the street he knocked
down, Verling said, until on Euclid
Street, near Fifteenth, he ran
into Park Policeman Shoemaker.
Knocks Cop Down
Shoemaker undertook to place
the negro under arrest and was
promptly knocked down. Shoe
maker arose and, shaking off the
daze which followed the blow,
commandeered a passing auto
mobile and chased Dixson to
Eleventh Street, where he turned
north.
Dixson by that time had taken
off all of his clothes, witnesses
said, and was as naked as the
day he was born.
The nude man ran up the steps
of a house near Fairmont Street
and with one blow of his fist
smashed in the triple plat glass
panel of the front door. He went
through head first into what hap
pened to be his own home, but
Shoemaker was unaware of this,
Threatened Carving
Seeking to prevent the de-
man from doing injury to
occupants of the house Shoemaker
without hesitation followed him
through the remnants of the plate
glass door. AS he came through,
he said the man brought piece
of plate glass down on his head
and then picked up jagged
piece with the remark:
I'm going to cut your CUTS
out"
At that Shoemaker shot him in
the groin and he fell groaning to
the hall floor.
Dixson was taken to Emergency
Hospital where he is said to be
in a critical condition. The
Tenth precinct patrol took Shoe