Evening star., 1932-08-09
Jury HEARS STORY
Of KENNEDY DEATH
Seven CoIored Men Brought
Before Coroner's Panel in
Killing of Policeman.

Seven colored men, believed to be
the leaders In q gang of about Is VIII
last Saturday night beat to death Milo
J. Kennedy. park policeman, were
brought before a coroner'S inquest al
the morgue this afternoon, while police
were securing the city for the others
The story Of the attack was told In
statements OF three Of the men, Joseph
Jackson, Irving Murray and Ralph
Holmes. read to the coroner's jury by
Sergt, Floyd Truscott of the police
homicide squad.
Attack Was Planned.
The statements told how, annoyed by
the policeman, a crowd of about ID
plotted the night before to get the Of
ficer and how, as the officer was leaving
Logan Circle Park, a brick, allegedly
tated the battle which ended In the
officers death.
Implicated by the three statements
Louis Murray and Aiphonso Henson, ali
of whom are in CUSTODY, and Vincent
Clark and William WooS, whom police
are seeking, and several others whose
names the trio were unable to give, but
who have been identified.
According to Irving MurrayS state
ment, the trouble between the gang,
which has been hanging out for several
weeks in the park. and Officer Kennedy
started on the night before the murder
The officer had reprimanded several of
the gang for roWdyism. At this time,
according to Murray, the gang decided
that if on the following evening the
officer laid hands on any one of them
he was to be mobbed
Arrested Two Men.
On Saturday evening, about two hours
before the attack according to Murray,
Kennedy arrested two men who had
been in the plot the night before, Graf
ton Bayliss and Henry Brazier, for
creating q disturbance. At this time the
officer was forced to use his club to
keep away the threatening gang swing
ing 1t on Jackson.
Shortly before IL o'clock Jackson
who had left the park, returned. Murray
stated, with q brick in his pocket. and
said he would let the officer have it if
he started anything. AS the officer
was leaving the park in his car few
minutes later, brick was thrown at
him, by Jackson, according to Murray
Circling the park, Kennedy returned
and attempted to place jackson under
arrest jackson resisted. and Murray
said he crept around behind the officer
while he was still holding Jackson, and
hit him In the head with a brick.
which had been secreted behind a tree
nearby to use in case of trouble AS
the officer fell, moaning, Murray stated
Ralph Holmes grabbed his baton and
started beating him In the face with 1t.
Murray said. he went into the fray,
seized the officers pistol, and fed
Others Seen at Scene.
Several others Of the gang which had
gathered about the PROSTATE officer were
raising their hands as though they were
either hitting or throwing at the officer,
Murray declared.
Holmes statement bore out substan-
TALLY Murray's story. Jackson in his
statement, however. denied that he
threw the first rock at Kennedy, or that,
as had been stated in Holmes and Muir
rays statements he was leader in the
plot.
DR.. B w. Nash, who treated Ken
nedy on his arrival at Garfield Hospital
early Sunday morning, said the officer
was so badly beaten that he could make
no coherent statement except that the
colored men had got him"
Detective Sergt. John C. DalgliSh Of
the homicide squad testified that he re-
covered Kennedy's pistol at the home
OF Alphonso Hensop. at Hamilton. Va