Police News Notes.
Police News Notes.

POLICE NEWS NOTES

    These robberies were reported to the police yesterday:
    Bicycle, valued at $30, property of Edward Thompson, 1249 Calvert street northwest, from in front of 49 D street northwest.
    Broadcloth overdress, valued at $20, property of Miss Grace Felka, 1353 Harvard street northwest.
    Bicycle, valued at $10, property of Harris Petree, 1824 H street northwest, from rear of his home.
    Pair gloves and a kit of automobile tools, valued at $10, property of George Riggs, 131 Maryland avenue northeast.
    Auto tire, valued at $25, property of Dr. J. C. Wyncoop, 1431 Rhode Island avenue northwest, from machine standing in front of the Cosmos Club.

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    Relatives and friends of Edwin Stowe, 1253 Four-and-a-half street southwest, have asked the police to locate him. His relatives told the police that the young man had left a note saying he intended to do himself injury. He disappeared from his home yesterday morning.

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    Joseph Seldon, 20 years old, 232� Quincy street northeast, riding a bicycle at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest, yesterday, ran into a motorcycle ridden by William H. Deal, 3300 Seventeenth street northeast. Both riders escaped with slight injuries.

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    Charles W. Deshaze, 5 years old, 1631 Good Hope road, Anacostia, playing in the road near his home yesterday, was struck by an automobile operated by Frank McManamy, 3825 Huntington street northwest. The child was taken to the Providence Hospital. His condition is not serious.

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    An automobile owned by Joseph Gawler & Sons, 1730 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, operated by Tom Moore, 1749 F street northwest, collided yesterday morning with a Capital Traction car at Eighteenth and G streets northwest, damaging the automobile $30. No one was injured.

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    Luther Hall, 30 years old, Congress Heights, D. C., was found in Esther street early yesterday morning ill and unconscious. He was taken to the Washington Asylum Hospital.

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    A. De Long, a G. A. R. veteran from Portland, Oreg., in the city attending the encampment last week, has asked the police to find his baggage which he left at a boarding house he is unable to locate.

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    A taxicab operated by Lorenzo Blue, 812 I street northwest, collided yesterday at Twentieth and P streets northwest with a car of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, damaging the taxicab $100. No one was injured.


Source:

Unknown, "Police News Notes," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Monday, 4 October 1915, p. 14.

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