Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
PEPPER IS SOUGHT
IN ETHER ATTACK
Lyon Park Police Search for
Man Seen Looking
in Windows.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent OF Inc star.
LYON PARK, Va, May 2l.-police
have expressed the opinion that the
iran who attempted to administer ether
Hack. 26 Beech street. Is the same man
who for the past three months has been
tsrrorizing women on South Walnut
street BY peep.cg into windows.
While It LSs been .c:2o-s-e.e 10 CO
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community.
Women Frightened.
The condition existing on South WAL
nut street, where many women have
reached a state of near hysteria and
are frightened by every strange or sud
den noise, has not been made public
before, it was explained today, so that
the man would not be warned OF re-
peated attempts to trap him.
While the man has been seen on sew
eral occasions, no one has been able
to determine whether he IS white or
colcred. Lorraine Hack was unable 10
say whether the man leaning over her
bed yesterday was white.
The South Walnut street intruder
was described by C. w. Colby, 303 South
Walnut street, as feet of foot and
startlingly persistent. On three differ
ent occasions. it was stated, the in
truder has taken a>chair from the back
yard of Sterling Taylor and carried it
Harris. using it to elevate him so that
he may see through the living room
window.
Seen Saturday Night.
The last time this occurred was Sal
lirday night and the first time about
the middle of February. The first &C.
and the second the following Saturday
night. The long lapse of time between
the second and third occurrences had
led Mr.. and Mrs. Harris to believe that
they would not again be moleSted.
Upon only one of these occasions did
either Mr.. or Mrs. Harris see the man.
This was at the time Of his first visit.
and the chair was discovered by
Sheriff Howard B. Fields when he an
swered a call for assistance. The sec
ond occurrence was made known when
the chair was discovered the following
morning beneath the window.
fane0 10 heappear.
Saturday night at about midnight
Colby said that he happened to look
out of an upstairs window and saw the
man running across a lot toward the
back of his home. Colby called his
wife and together they watched the
man until he crossed the street and
disappeared in the shadows surround
ing the Harris home When he failed
to reappear Mr.. and Mrs. Colby went to
bed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris did not hear
him upon this occasion, although they
had not yet retired. and it was not until
Sunday morning. when they found the
chair beneath the window, that they
knew Of his appearance.
The man once was seen to look
through living room window in the
Colby home and twice through the
windows of the home Of F. j. Bur-
roughs, but at no time has 1t been pos
sibie to distinguish his features.
The mans motive is not robbery,
both police and citizens declare, since
he approaches only houses in which
lights appear and has so far unless 1t
was he who entered the Hack home on
Beech street, confined his activities to
looking in windows and taking an &C.
casional bottle of milk. partially
consumed bottle Of milk was found in
the driveway at the Hack home yes
terday morning, a further indication
that the man is the same.