The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-10
COED Staying
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BY BELLB0Y
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crime and that he shot Miss CleV
enger only after her screams haC
scared me crazy" In his con
fesSion, Brown said, Moore de
clared that he found the door O.
Miss Clevenger'S room open, anC
thinking it was unoccupied, en-
tered, only to find the girl lyint
on her bed reading. Brown
quoted Moore as saying:
81 told her l did not know she
was in the room. Then she said
she was going to call the office
or scream on me. She came
close to me when she said that
and pulled the gun out of my
belt and shot her when she
screamed.
"She screamed again and I
hit her on the face four times
with the gun"
Shortly after the Negro con.
feSSed, Brown filed formal muir
der charge against him.
With his announcement that
the three weeks mystery had beer
cleared up, Brown released Dan
iel Gaddy, white Waterman at
the hotel, who was the last OF
six men suspected and eXonerated
Gaddy had been held chiefly be
cause records at the hotel showed
he failed to punch the time clock
on Miss Clevenger'S floor at about
the hour of her murder.
Text of Confession
Moore'S confession follows:
My name is Martin Moore. I
am % years old. 1 live at 84l7
Hill St.
I am employed as a hall man
at the Battery Park Hotel. fin
iShed my work at p. m, on
July Is, 1886, and left for home.
sneaked back into the hotel
the same night through the
back door about p. m. and hid
downstairs in my locker. About
12:45 a. M, July Is, I went up
the back stairway to the second
floor and went to Room 224.
opened the door. The room was
not locked.
When 1 entered the room the
girl was on the bed. 1 walked
in. She screamed. Then I shot
her. She still kept screaming
and I hit her with the gun on
her face four times until she
stopped screaming. When shot,
she jumped up and started to
run out. then hit her with the
gun. She fell on the floor near
the bathroom. When she fell
don't know what position she fell
in.
Bed Light Burning
It was dark. The bed light was
lit when 1 went in. I shot her
then. She kept screaming and
I hit her a couple of times
when she was lying on the
floor. I unscrewed the shade
and bulb from the socket and
placed it somewhere and came
out. AS l was about to leave
the room some man standing
in the doorway said, What
was the screams" And I said
to the man, That's what 1
was wondering" l then closed
the door, went down the front
steps to the mezzanlne floor
and down mezzanine to the
ballroom.
From the ballroom I passed
through a heavy door and
screen door, reached the porch,
climbed on the bannister, slid
down half way and jumped
and then ran to my right on
the street west of the hotel
to Montford Street and started
walking on Hill Street. I hung
around on Hill Street until
time to go back to work. Saw
no one around Hill Street. I
went back to work at 4 a. m.
1 still had the gun on me
when I went back to work. 1
worked until ten minutes to
S. I then went home and
went to sleep.
I brought the gun back home
with me at this time and hid it
under the toilet beam. That is
the same place where Deputy
Sheriff Tom Brown, with other
officers, and Bank Taylor found
it, after I had told them where
I had hid it. 1 carried you all
to it.
I tried doors on rooms 218
and PIG. They would not open.
The next room I tried was room
224. I believed the young girl
was not in there.
1 tried the door, it opened,
it was not locked. I figured she
was not in the room.
Found Door Unlocked
My reason was that 1 found
the door unlocked, but when
got in she was there and she
screamed. That's why I shot
her. She screamed some more
and she started to run out. 1t
was then I struck her with the
gun. When she fell on floor
/ struck her several times to
stop her screaming as I was
scared and did not want to be
caught.
Question by Sheriff: when
did you unscrew shade and
bulb?"
Answer: when shot her and
knocked her down once. then
unscrewed the light and took
whole thing off"
1 make this statement of my
own free will and accord and
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