Evening star., 1933-11-26
81 Policemen Killed on Duty
In 62 Years of Capital Force
Doyle Murder by Woman in Maryland
Apenue Groggery Start of Cory Rec
Ord-"Busch Case" Recalled.

ly were electrocuted, but McCabe was
acquitted.
Detective serst. James e. Armstrong
was the victim OF another sensational
shooting affray.
On the night Of December Il, 1919.
John McHenry, 10, walked into o tire
store in the 1900 block Of Fourteenth
street. shot and killed the proprietor,
Wallace w. Mulcare and fed with his
pocketbook, containing $l52.
Armstrong accompanied by Mulcare's
helper. william Loving, colored, went to
Union Station to watch for the mur-
derer figuring he might try to leave the
city by train.
Identified at Station.
The detective had been there only q
short time when McHenry appeared.
Armstrong and Loving watched him
pace up and down the waiting room,
munching popcorn. That's him." said
Loving, after studying McHenry for .
few minutes.
When Armstrong approached Nc
Henry, the youth, who was only feet
tall and weighed less than 100 pounds,
drew a pistol and opened fire. The
detective went down with three wounds
In his body and another in his leg.
When he fell, however. he grasped
McHenry's leg and held on to 1t until
another policeman. attracted by the
shots, ran into the station. McHenry
was still trying to wriggle free when
the other oncer knocked him uncon-
scious with a blackjack.
McHenry was held on open charges
until after Armstrong; death, Decem-
ber 20. Then he was charged with
murder, tried and convicted
Between 2 and 3 o'clock on the morn
ing of May 81, 1918, Deputy Sheriff
L. H. McParlan of Charles County, Md.
went to a house in the first block of
! street northeast to deliver q sum-
mons to Herbert L. Copeland. colored.
who was listed as a witness in a civil
suit scheduled for trial at La Plata,
Nd Policeman John A. Conrad ac-
companied him.
mitted a murder in Galveston. Tex,
five years before. and he assumed the
officers were coming to arrest him.
Without waiting to hear the nature of
their mission, he shot and killed both
of them. then leaped from a second
story window and fed to the home of
his half brother, Arthur Barnes, In
the l400 block Of Carrollsburg place.
Lieut.. David T. Dunigsn traced
Copeland to his hiding place, however.
and went there to arrest him. He, too,
was shot to death by the fugitive.
Squad Sent to House.
A squad of picked men. armed with
rifles. was sent to the house. While
the remainder Of the policemen sur
rounded the dwelling, Oficers Brem-
norman and Wright sneaked inside.
Copeland, who had crawled under
bed, fired one shot at them, but missed.
As Bremmerman and Wright rushed
him. he pulled the trigger again, but
I'm done, Boys" Copeland said,
crawling out from beneath the bed.
Don't shoot"
Four of the riflemen's bullets had
struck Copeland before Bremmerman
and Wright entered the house, and he
was in a critical condition for some
time. He finally recovered, however,
and was sent to the gallows.
The case Of Detective Sergt. Arthur
B. Scrivener is different from all the
others. On the morning of October IS,
1925. he was found shot to death in an
alley near Wisconsin avenue and N
street with a necktie clutched in his
hand and gun lying nearby. He was
to have been married that day, and the
wedding ring was in his pocket.
After an extensive investigation 1t
was decided that Scrivener had killed
himself, and the case was listed as a
suicide in the records on file at head
quarters.
Others Killed on Duty.
A list of the other policemen who
were killed or died from injuries re-
ceived in the line Of duty follows:
Americus N. Crippen, shot on No
vember 5. 1889, while attempting to ar
self in a house at Twelfth and Q streets.
Adolphus Constantine, drowned on
September 10, 1891, when he slipped
and fell from police boat of Stumps
Neck near Quantico, Va.
James B. Slack, stabbed on November
27, 1891, by a man whom he was trying
to arrest for profanity.
Sergt. Fritz PasSau. shot on May II,
1899, by man who barricaded himself
in a house in Georgetown.
John j. Smith. shot on July 4, 1904.
by one of three soldiers whom he
ordered from the Aqueduct Bridge foot
way.
William E. Yetton, thrown from his
horse while patrolling his beat. near
TWenty-flrst street and Benning road
northeast, on November 8, 1908
Capt. William H. Mathews, shot on
March S, 1909, in his ONCE in the old
fifth precinct, Fifth and E streets south
east, by Policeman j. w. Collier, who
later was adjudged insane.
Willie r. Gowen. injured on March
l, 1915, when he fell from his bicycle.
Lester M. Kidwell. injured on July
II. 1918, when he fell through a sky
light while chasing a burglar.
Detective Sergt. Harry Wilson, shot in
house in the 200 block Of G street
during the race riot of July 21, 1919.
Oscar A. McKimmie. shot on January
IT, 1920. by a man who had Just burg
larized the home of Mrs. Solomon Solet
In the 1900 block of Tenth street.
Victim Of Car Crash.
Preston e. Bradley, injured on Feb
ruary 20, 1921, while attempting to ar
rest q motorist He was standing on the
running-board of the speeding autono-
bile, trying to force the driver to stop,
when it crashed into street car at
Seventh and o streets, then careened
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