Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16
OFFICER ACCUSED
OF WOUNDING GIRL
INATTACK ON HOME
Lieut.. Harvey Gets Warrant
for PatroIman Bachelor,
His Son-in-LaW.
CHILD, 10, is REPORTED
AS SLIGHTLY INJURED
Failure to See Estranged Wife
Blamed-Hit-and-Run Charge
Also Is Faced.

Ruth Harvey, 10-year-old daughter
Of Lieut.. Edward T. Harvey of the har-
Dor precinct, was reported injured
slightly by one of several bullets said
to have been fired into the Harvey
bungalow in Alcova Heights, Va, last
night by Harney's son-ln-law, Police
man Leroy E. Bachelor, 80 years OLD,
attached to the fourteenth precinct:
4 Policeman Bachelor, estranged nus
band of Harney's daughter, Mrs. Mar
raret Bachelor, % years old, later was
arrested in Washington following col
Iision between his automobile and an
other machine.
Batchelor was said to have becon11
er1raged when his father-in-law refused
him permission to see his eStranged
wife. The policeman was charged TO-
day with reckless driving and leaving
the scene of an accident. He later
was suspended from the department
pending an inquiry.
80. Assault Warrant Obtained.
Lieut.. Harvey went to Arlington
court house this morning and swore to
8 warrant against Bachelor, charging
him with feloniouS assault with intent
to kill. The warrant was turned over
to Washington police to be served.
He probably viii be returned there
after the Police Court here passes on
the trafflc charges. The warrant was
issued through Commonwealth Attor-
ney William G. Cloths office.
An automobile said to have been
operated by Bachelor on Fourteenth
street shortly after the shooting in
Virginia figured in a collision with an
other machine near Lincoln Memorial
driveway and B street.
The impact is reported to have over
turned the second machine, injured a
passenger, Mrs Margaret Wright, 80
years old, of 736 Twenty street.
Hrs. Wright was taken to Emergency
Hospital and later sent home.
Lieut.. Harvey said today that Batch
elor telephoned Mrs Bachelor last
night, stating he expected to come
around and shoot up the place" If
AIRS. Bachelor refused to see him. His
daughter, the Lieutenant explained, had
been living with him since her separa-
ton several months ago from her hus-
band. She disconnected the telephone
while Bachelor was talking Harvey
said.
Says Bullets Pierced Wall.
Later, at some time around o'clock,
Lieut.. Harvey said he heard a siren
out to investigate and found Bachelor
st the wheel Of his automobile. Batch
elor, the lieutenant said, demanded to
see his wife or his 5-year-old son, Leroy
Bachelor.
Lieut.. Harvey said he told Bachelor
that neither Mrs. Bachelor nor the
child wished to see him and then re-
entered his home Once inside, the
lieutenant asserted, he heard several
revolver shots from the street outside
and bullets began to pierce the wall
of his bungalow.
In the front room with him at that
time, Lieut.. Harvey said, was Ruth and
her small brother. The children ran
for cover, the lieutenant said, while he
hurried to rear room TO obtain his
revolver.
When the h:utenant reached the
street, he said, his son-in-law had
driven of. The lieutenant said the
shots had come in through the wall as
If they were fired from rapidly moving
automobile.
Accused Of Leaving Scene.
The driver Of the second automobile
which figured in the collision, after the
shooting, William P. Neville, a years
old, Of 1901 Seventh street, told police
that Bachelor left the scene Of the
aSCAucuI NlbAtOut making Known MS
identity.
Neville and Bachelor showed I'D at
the frst police precinct station together
soon afterwards.
Both had walked there from the
scene, since either automobile was too
badly damaged to drive.
Neville told Precinct Detective A d.
Mansfield that Bachelor had refused to
give him his name and that he had
been compelled to follow him on foot
to the station.
According to Lieut.. w. H. Carlin,
Bachelor insisted he was not driving
either of the automobiles which COL
lided. He said, Carlin explained, that
he was passenger in one Of the auto
mobiles and that woman whom he re-
fused TO name was driving.
Lieut.. Carlin said witnesses had in
formed him Bachelor was alone In
his automobile at the time of the
accident.
The witnesses declared Bachelor
drove through a red light traffic signal
ct high rate Of speed shortly preced-
ing the accident, police said.
Bachelor recently was denoted to
the rank Of private from his capacity
% a precinct detective.