Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1896, Page 3

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Hill & Johnston, AGENTS FOS THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, my20-€t 1503 PENNA. AVE. N.W. best style pos- DOUBTFUL OF GUILT | Possibly the Would-be Gaithers- burg Murderers Not“Caught. SUSPECTS TAKEN 10 BALTIMORE They Strenuously Deny Knowledge of the Crime. NEARLY <A ‘LYNCHING Se Detectives Weedon and Horne went to Gaithersburg again this afterncon to re- sume the investigation of the attempied wholesale murder of the Buxton family. They were morally ceriain that the men in custody now are not responstble for the horrible tragedy. They think that the would-be murderer or murderers are still at large, and that the people of Mont- gomery county shculd not yet abandon the search. Randolph, who is spoken of as a tramp negro, they think may have entered the English house, but they have no idea that he is the man who wielded the ax so unmercifully and wounded so many peo- ple. The man who committed the crime they imagine must have blood stains on his clothing, and should any stained clothing be found it will go far toward fastening the crime upon some one. There should be a search made ef the woods for the It is true that Randolph in George- ccat of Randolph. claims his coat was stolen é bose my Weeraror Watseon, and if the woods where he had hidden it and it should hap- pen to be blood stained, then there might be some reason for a change of opinion. When the officers reach Gaithersburg today they will practically begin their investiga- town, but this may not be true, his coat should be found in tion anew, unless the county authorities have learned of something additional since evening. or Hollinterger number of supposed clues and has received a concerning the those who committed it, and the police in the outlying precincts’ have been given what little description there is to be given of the man seen in the Buxton house. The mounted officers in the county, es- pecially those who are on duty north of the city, have been given strict instruc- tions to look out fer suspicious-looking colored people and arrest them. Today about noon a suspictous-looking colored man was seen walking along the line of the railroad between Forest Glen and Silver Spring. He was in his shirt sleeves, and was carrying his coat on his arm. Several persons who saw him thought he was pos- ibly the criminal wanted, and when they arted toward him he ran. One of the Citizens boarded the train and came to this city to tell of what he had seen, and, as ready related, told of the affair to’ In- ector Hollinberger. The man, he said, an old shirt, In which new sleeves sewed. tor Hollinberger listened to his story, but as the officers had already been notified to look out for suspicious persons, no additional message was s2nt out. BENT ON VENGEANCE. Montgomery County Excited—Pris. oners Removed From Rockville. Special From a Staff Correspondent. ROCKVILLE, May 26—Some of the younger and more hot headed of the peo- ple were undoubtedly in favor yesterday of taking summary action with Sidney Ran- dolph and George Neale, the two men who were arrested on suspicion of murdering the Buxton family, but wiser counsels pre- vailed. “Wait for the proof; then it will be time to take ‘em out.” Not a word was heard about bringing the proof before a jury and a judge; not a word about a trial by the course of law. Everybody knew the tribunal that would try them would be their executioners as well. As the day wore on, stronger and stronger. ‘There was no abso- lutely direct evidence connecting either Neale or Randolph with the crime, but cir- cumstances here and there joined’ together began to form a close net around them. These circumstances were carried by word of mouth from one to another, and quickly all the county knew of it. “The country hereabout has an admirable system of tele- phones, and every subscriber who was not in person at Gaithersburg, or helping to search the country, had his mouth, full of interrogation marks, glued to the hello hole. So the rumors and facts flew over the miles, and men grew more serious look- ing and wives and daughters uttered sen- tentious suggestions. Collecting the Evidence. Horton Thompson, deputy sheriff, had found the tracks of a barefooted man leading from the Buxton house through a plowed field in the direction of George Neale’s house. He took Neale after his ar- rest by Preacher Lioyd and placed his bare feet in the tracks. They fitted ex- actly, according to Mr. Thompson, even to the toe-nail marks. Neale assured me while in jail that his feet stuck out over the tracks two inches. He probably “inched up,” as the boys say when playing marbles. Later on two boys were found. They were Joe Johnson and his brother, who lived in the same house with Neale. These two lads had told persons a mile apart that George Neale and a woman named Emily had come to their house early in the morning and asked for a shirt for a man whose snirt was all bloody. Randolph had on no outer shirt or coat when apprehended; so here was another connecting link. The youngsters were held as witnesses, and taken to jail at Rock- ville, where their father was afterward sent, and the woman reached the same place later. Previous to all this the in- centive for the crime was looked for. In yesterday's dispatches I mentioned that Neale had served a term in the peniten- the feeling grew Castoria For Infants and Chi CASTORIA DESTROYS WORMS. CASTORIA CURES CONSTIPATION, CASTORIA ALLAYS FEVERISHNESS. CASTORIA CURES DIARRHOEA AND COLIC. CASTORIA RELIEVES TEETHING TROUBLES. CASTORIA PREVENTS VOMITING SOUR CURD. “The use of ‘Castoria’ fs so universal and its merits zo well known that it seems a work of supererogation to indorse it. Few are the intelli- gent familics who do not keep Castoria within easy reach.” a CARLOS MARTYN, D.D., New York tity, dren. THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MAP. EXPLANATORY NOTH: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian tine. Jacksonville AIG H as a) Coat 5 Solid lines are tso- bars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or Unes of equal temperature, drawn fdr each ten degrees. snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. areas of high and ,ow barometer. Shaded areas are regions where rain or ‘The words “High” and “Low show location of Small arrows fly with the wind UNSETTLED WEATHER. The Conditions Favorable for Show- ers and Thunderstorms, Forecast till 8 p.m. Wednesday—For the District of Columbia, Delaware and Mary- land, unsettled weather, with .conditions favorable for showers and thunderstorms tonight; Wednesday, probably fair; cooler; westerly winds. For Virginia, unsettled weather and prob- ably thunderstorms this afternoon or to- night; Wednesday, partly cloudy weather; ccoler tonight; southwesterly winds, be- ccming northwesterly. Weather conditions and general forecast: The storm central Monday morning in northern Miriesota has moved eastward to the lowe: lake region and now covers the Saint Lawrence valley, the lakes, the Ohio and the upper Mississippi valleys. It has caused severe local storms and thun- derstorms, with htgh winds throughout the lake regions and Ohio valley. The baro- meter is highest south of Newfoundland and an erea of high pressure covers the gulf states central over the Florida penin- sula. The pressure remains high over the northern Rocky mountain districts and | relatively low on the southern and middle pe. The barometer has fallen decidedly in the lake regions and the Saint Lawrence valley and generally throughout the At- lantic states, also in the Pacific coast dis- tricts. It has risen in the upper M sippi and Missouri valleys. The temperature ts higher this morning in the middle Atlantic states and it is colder in the upper lake region, the upper Mississippi and Missouri valle: and on the middle Rocky mountain slope. Rain or showers and thunderstorms have | Rang lake regions, the Ohio and upper Mississip- pi valleys, and North Dakota, with occa- sional showers in the east gulf states. Shower and thunderstorms and possibly local storms are indicated for New Eng- land and the middle Atlantic states this af- ternoon or tonight, also showers in north- ern portion of the gulf states with cooler and clearing weather in the Ohio valley. The following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: 5 > During the past twenty-four hours— Springfield, Mo., 1.64. c tion of the Water, Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 67; condi- tion, 10; receiving reservoir, temperature, 70; condition at north connection, dition at 1 reservoir, temperature, ion at’in- ‘fluent gate house, 30: effluent gate house, 32. ide Table. Today—Low tide, 1:06 a.m. and 1:50 p.m.; high tide, 7:07 a.m. ‘omorrow—Low high tide, 7 tributing tide, m. and 2:40 a.m. and 8 ¢ Sun and Moon, ); sun sets, 7:15. 56 p.m. today. he City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 8:46 p.m.; extin- guishing begun at 3:10 a.m. The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. If clear less lighting may be ordered. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 8346 p.m.; extinguishing begun at 3 The moon schedule does not apply to naphtha lamps. Sun rises, 4 Moon full 4 ¢ of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: occurred in New England, throughout the | imum, 64. S am., 68; 2 p.m., 80; maximum, 83; min- — —————— — THE WEATHER FORECASTS BY FLAG SIGNALS, No. 1. No. 2 No. 3 No. 4. No. 6. Clear or fair Rain oF Local rain Temperature Cold wave. weather. snow. or snow. signal. Explanation of the Flings. ‘The flags are holsted each day upon the Issue of tne morning weather map and float antil dark. ‘They indicate the weather that may be expected during the follow.ng thirty-six hours, but more par- ticularly the last twenty-four hours of that period. They are t be redd from the top of the staff downward. If more than one kind of weather ts predicted for the period from 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. the condi:ions first «med in the forecast will be represented by the uppermost tisg. When a warning of a “cold wave" 1s included in the forecast message. the cold-wavs flag wil: be displayed below the proper weather flag. ‘The temperature flag, when placed above numbers 1, 2 or 8, indicates warmer weather: when placed below numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates colder weather; when not displayed, ‘the indications are that the temperature will remein stationary. tlary for attempted rape. It was remem- bered that Buxten had been one of his most ardent pursuers, and had used every effort to secure Neale’s conviction. When the latter returned to Gaithersburg after serving his sentence he was heard to re- mark that he intended to get even with the people who sent him up. It was then de- clared that Randolph had been a fellow- prisoner with Neale in the penitentiary, and had been in Gaithersburg several days ago looking for Neale. Incentive and Collusion. Here was motive in the first place and evident collusion in the next. It was fur- ther asserted that tracks corresponding with Randolph's shoes had been found leading directly from Neale’s house to the Ward place, where Randolph was caught. One of the boys also said that Neale had run out of the house when he heard Preach- er Lloyd and his party approaching and was not going over to Farmer Mim's house as he said. Neale told me he was on way to Mim’s house when arrested to “git a feller ter play fuss baste in er base bail game.” His aunt said he had gone over to collect some money Mims owed him. Mims said he owed Neale nothing, as the latter hadn't worked for him for y Tnen a woman had declared that she had seen Randolph shortly after daybreak going along the railroad at a dog trot. He hada coat on and buttoned up around his neck. Upon secing her he had turned off into the woods in the direction of Ward's place, where he was apprehended. He was then coatless. As Mrs. Buxton had been choked after being struck in the head with the ax, and the blood was streaming from her, it was evident the coat of the man who assaulted her must have been bloody. It was also evident in the minds of the people that Randolph had thrown his coat away. In Neale’s house a pair of trousers, sup- posed to bear blood stains, were found, and in the stove were found, among the ashes, two china buttons like those worn on a shirt. Neale’s aunt declared she had burned a piece of cloth in the morning. The decision reached by the investagators was that the piece of cloth was a bloody shirt. It was declared, too, that Randolph had stolen the murderous ax the day before from Mr. Watkins’ house at Washington Grove. All these various stories and rumors ran the gamut of gossip, and increased the cer- tainty of the community that the suspected men were in reality the guilty parties, Removal of the Prisoners. The young and thoughtless, losing their heads, as usual, began to talk of going to the Rockville jail. It would be a good thing, anyhow, they argued, to string the men up on general principles. Neale was known to be a tough citizen and Ran- dolph was evidently as bad. Wiser coun- sels prevailed, however, and the youngsters restrained themselves, although the effort was obvious. — Sheriff Collier became con- vinced during the afternoon that the growing feeling might lead to something rash, and he determined to remove the prisoners from the Rockville jail. The Rockville jail is not a double for the Moro castle, by any means. Its stone walis are thick ‘enough, but the doors are swung to rickety wooden frames and four’men with a four-inch scantling could send them in with a half dozen swings. The “guard” consists of Deputy Peyton, who acts also as jailer, nis wife, three or four little chil- dren and a shepherd dog of the vintage of 1872. So Sheriff Collier determined to run no risks with his charges. At 6:30 a carriage was driven to the rear of the jail by a roundabout course. Randolph and Neale were brought out, handcuffed together and put in the coach. Sheriff Collier and John -Kelchner, son of a for- mer sheriff, got in with them, and Harry Poss held the reins. The carriage was driven down School House lane to Rockville, and some young men who saw it coming and knew what was up waved their arms, beckoning for others, and stretched across the lane in a line. Poss whipped his horses into a run, and the young men fell back. He turned into the main street of the town by Dr. Stonestreet’s house, and struck the horses with his whip. They ran like racers up the hill between the Catholic Church and the fair grounds, turned south and then proceeded at a more leisurely pace down the Georgetown pike. A Iccal train on the Metropolitan branch reaches Rockville at 6:43, leaving Gaithersburg at 6:30 and Autrey Park, a scant mile nearer Washing- ton than Rockville, a few minutes later. A telephone message had been sent to Gaithersburg as soon Sheriff Collier's intention to remove the prisoners was rumored, end it was expected some of the hot-headed would come down on the train. None did so, however, but quite a crowd of men and boys boarded it at Rockville, and had the supreme satisfaction of seeing Sheriff Coll and Mr. Kelchner, with Ran- dolph and Neale, get al rd the train at Autrey Park, bound for Itimore. There was quite a diversity of opinion here as to the wisdom of Sheriff Collier's course. The wiser heads, who wanted proof of an absolute character before proceeding to extreme measures, said it was wrong, because the removal would increase the feeling against the men, and pointed out that a most deplorable event would have occurred if the crowd that started to im- ede the course of the carriage in Schvol Mouse lane had been larger and stronger. An Exciting Night in Rockville. Others were loud in their denunciation and declared the men ought to have been hung, and that they would have been if al- lowed to remain in Rockville over night, while a few were downright glad that noth- Ing more exciting was to be in progress in Rockville last night than a colored picnic and ball at the fair grounds. It 1s probeble that the men would have been lynched had they not been removed. By 8 o'clock farmers and others residing in the county began to enter Rockville, and there was vehement denunciation of the sheriff for spiriting the prisoners away. The crowd increased as time wore on, until at 10 o'clock half a hundred men and youths from Gaithersburg came down. The streets were crowded as though It was midday in fair week. Nervous women were shocked into hysterics by the throngs that surged up and down and talked loudly. It was 2 o'clock this morning before things quieted down. News from the victims did not serve to allay the anger of the mul- titude. It was first said that neither Mr. Buxton nor his two daughters could sur- vive the night, and then the rumor spread that Sadie was dead. This sort of gossip and the contents of numerous flasks in- creased the eagerness of the more reckless element for vengeance, and caused more emphatic excoriation cf the sheriff. The removal was a good thing for the Suspected men, a good thing for Mont- gomery county, and an especially good thing for Rockville. There were men in Rockville yesterday who felt that any attempt to visit ven- Seance on the suspects would lead to a race riot, and they were glad when Collier act- ed. The negroes here are strong in their allegiance to one another, and yesterday and last night they were gathered in great numbers at the picnic above mentioned. Farm hands and waiters, laborers and me- chanics were out in force, and there were bottles galore and frequent tasting thereof. There were mutterings, too, as the inten- tions of the whites regarding Randolph and Neale were dtyineg, and so it is well they were not given the opportunity to be carried out. For there would have been ‘wo crowds at the jail, and both of them armed, nae : Condition .gf fhe Victims. This morning itrwasilearned that Dr. J. Ford Thompson of Washington had ex- amined the victinjs ofthe crime, and had given it as his opinion .that the wounds of the two Buxton giris wete necessarily fatal, while there was but a remote chance for the recovery -of the father. BELIEVE THEM, INNOCENT. — Fail te Gonnect With the Crime. Special Dispatch to The Evading Star. GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 20.—When Detectives Horne and Weedon reached here from Washington yesterday after- noon they saw a determined-looking crowd of citizens standing on the county road only a short distance from the station. These citizens stood about in groups and discussed the horrible crime of yesterday morning. They had concluded that the two men locked up in the Rockville jafl were the guilty parties, and that further inves- Officers Suspects tigation was useless. What concerned them more than anything else was what should be done last night. “Neal has been sent down to Rockville once before,” said one of the infuriated citizens, “and they sent him back to us, and we don’t intend ‘o have him again. He's @ bad man, and we must get rig of him.” ‘The question of the man’s innecence never entered the minds of those who favored lynch law. In the words of one of the offi- cers, there had been a crime committed, and somebody must die. At that time the Washington officers had not visited the prisoners. They wanted to begin operations at the scene of the dastardly crime, and then see the men !n custody later on, but State’s Attorney Kilgour was anxious for them to interview the men first. He realized full well the dangar under which the pris- | oners were laboring, and he thought a state- ment from the Washington officers might at least delay aczion on part of the crowd. if they really were bent on taking the law in thelr own hands. But,” remarked one of those who favored “Judge Lynch” taking a h in the case, “the Washington officers can’t fool us out of the men the way the Harper's Ferry peo- ple were fooled out of Ford.” All this time the evidence against the prisoners was strengthening, ¢o the people thought. Circumstance after cireumstance even more suspicious than those heard of first was added to the chain of circum- stances mentioned in yesterday’s dispatch, until most of the citizens thought the chain was complete. The arrest of the two boys, relatives of Neal, and their statement: about the shirt and blood, had the effect of furnishing the missing link to the cha of circumstantial evidence, and, not satisfied with this, State’s Attorney’ Kilgour sent .Word to have the colored woman “Emma” arrested. She was supposed to have known all about the affair connected with the giv- ing of the clean shirt in exchange for the bloody shirt of the murderer, if, indeed, she did not actually hand out the shirt. Some of the indignant ones stood about the road with revolvers in their belts, while others carried them in their pockets and seemed particularly anxious that their Weapons should be exposed, while one man had a shotgun. They were still discuss- ing the sad affair, and information that a lynching party was being formed at Darnes- town reached there before the detectives left for Rockville to have an interview with the prisoners. Not Satisfied. “Go down there with your minds made up that they are the men,” was what the officers were told, and they then went to Rockville, in company with ex-Justice Stenestreet, who had bean deputized to act as sheriff during the temporary absenee of the sheriff, who was engaged in con- aemnation proceedings in anothcr part of the county. A number of newspaper men and several citizens also went to Rockville, and all eyes were on the officers. Their appearance in the village attracted at- tention, and behind them a large crowd fol- Icwed until the jail was reached. The front door was wide open, but the inner iron door which separates the jailer’s apart- ments from the jail proper was closed and heavily barred. ‘This was soon swung open and the officers admitted. ‘Then the crowd was ordered out, and while the officers were in the little stone structure quite a crowd of persons assem ide and awaited the time for the to leave, as they were desirous of hearing what the prisoners would say Y about the crime, but in this particular their curiosity was not satisfied, and the officers returned here to pursue the investigation. a “Are they the men who committed the crime?” was asked the officers at almost every turn. I don’t know,” was the answer cach time. ““But,"" the officers would add, “I would advise you to hold on for a two if you have any idea of lynching. The officers had obtained from the oners nothing in the nature of an admis- sion. Indeed, they had beea made to be- lieve that the men were probably inno- cent. “If they are the men who committed the crime,” remarked Detective Weedon, “they are certainly remarkable prisoners The officers, in their questioning, had asked almost every conceivable question. They had examined and cross-exemined the men, separately and together, and nothing was said by either prisoner’ which would even indicate that he had ever seen or heard of the other before thei Complete Stories. Randolph declared that never before had he known or scen Neal. He belonged in Georgia, he said, but had been near Brad- dock, Pa., and while there he was arrested and sentenced to the house cf correction for ninety days as a suspicious person. On no other occasion, he said, was he ever in prison, and therefure he had not met Neal, as was claimed, in the Maryland penitentiary. Concerning his wearing crly an under- shirt and no coat, he raid he had been robbed of his coat in Georgetown. He was sleeping in a mill there turday night, and while asleep his coat was taken. When the men got after him yesterday for the purpose of arresting him he said he ran, for he thought they were after him for having slept in the barn over night. Neal repeated the story he had told ear- lier in the day. He had gone out to get a man to play base ball, was his excuse for having been out so early in the morning. mcerning the statement of the small boy about the shirt, 1 says he heard no conversation such as the boy relates, but the boy declares ihat he must have heard it, for he was slecping with Neal, his half-brother, and the latier had just said son-ething tc him when he heard the man ccme to the door and speak to Emma. Another statement is that Neal was heard talking to his mother about the shirt epl- sode. When almost every effort to get from the men a confession had failed Detective Weedon conversed with the prisoner Neal on the subject of death. In a quiet man- ner he informed the «colored man of the possibilities, which no one seemed to real- ize more fully than did Neal, and advised him that it would not be out of the way for kim to make his peace with God. “I don’t know what they are going to do with me,” said the prisoner, who was as cool and collected, if not more so, than any man in the prison, “but no matter how much I'm tortured or hung 1 will never say I'm guilty, for it would not he the truth.” During all the rigid cross- examinations neither prisoner showed any signs of weakening. Searching for Clues. Upon thelr return here from Rockville, the Washington officers were prepared to give no opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoners. Nothing had transpired in jail which in any manner convinced them that the men were guilty, but on the contrary, indicatfons were that the prison- ers were strangers until they were arrest- ed. This visit, however, was not enough to convince the officers one way or the oth- er, and they started out to make a more thorouzh investigation among the relatives ard friends of the prisoner Neal, arid to find any other clue which migat help them in their efforts to fasten the crime upon the guilty man or men. They went over to the house where the crime was committed, hoping they would get an interview with Mr. Buxton, but they were not permitted to see him. They did learn, however, that the statement of the boy James Johnson was not altogether true. 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STION SAU -Page 16 4 14 4 Ce ee neonate taeda EXCHANGE RENT (Flats) RENT (Houses) RENT (Miscellaneous). RENT (Offices). RENT Rooms). RENT (Stores). SALE (Bicycles) SALE (Houses) SALE (Lots) SALE (Miscel FOR FOR For FOR FOR FOR FoR FoR HOTEES LADIES’ G LOST AND FOU: MEDIC. OFFICIAL NOTICES PERSONAL SUMMER RESORTS. UNDERTAKERS was WANTED (Houses). WANTED (Miscellaneous). WANTED (Roons).. WANTED (Situations). gee See 5 3 5 5 15 4 4 4 4 4 Buxtons. So far as Randolph is concern- ed, Detective Horne said it was possible that he had entered the English house, but so far as he could see, there was novhing to indicate that he committed the horrible crime. Soon after 8 o'clock the officers left here for home fully convinced that the per- petrators of the crime were still at large. STICKING TO THEIR STORIES. Randolph. und Neale Persist in Deny- ing Connection With the Crime. Special Dispatch to ‘The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, May 26.—Sidney Ran- dolph and George Neale, the two colored men suspected of attempiing the murder of the Buxton family at Gaithersburg, who were brought here by Sheriff Collier of Montgomery county to save them from prospective lynching, were placed in jail upon their arrival last night, and will be held here to await the aotion of the Mont- gomery county grand jury. As this body does not meet until November, the pris- cners’ stay in Baltimore will be a long one. Two deputies from Gaithersburg were at the jail this morning, and elcsely questioned Rendolph and Neale, but the men both stuck to the stories told at the time of their arrest, and declared they had noth- ing to do with nor were in any way con- nected with the crime of which they are suspected. In addition to the blocd spots on Ran- dolph’s skirt in front, it is believed a blood stain has been found on the back, where would have been difficult for his wounded hand to reach. 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