Halloween Pranks Result in Arrest.
Halloween Pranks Result in Arrest.

HALLOWEEN PRANKS
RESULT IN ARRESTS
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Fairfax Police Are Kept Busy
by Youthful Antics and
Motor Mishaps.
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SCHOOL PATROL STARTS
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FAIRFAX BUREAU OF THE POST.

                                                   P. O. Box 245, Vienna, Va.
                                                                       Phone Vienna 64.

    The police force of Fairfax, kept busy Halloween night. Numerous offenders were arrested.
    Twenty boys piled large timbers across the highway near Vienna and nailed them together. Then they rolled a large boulder into the middle of the road and covered it with leaves. An unidentified man driving along the road hit the rock which caused his car to run into the ditch, wrecking it.
    At McAtee's garage at Oakton, they stole a car which they placed on the schoolhouse steps.
    Then the boys set off some dynamite on the school grounds and on the country road along side the school.
    At this point the sheriff's force caught up with the offenders and the four alleged ring leaders were placed under arrest. The names of the others were taken as material witnesses and they were summoned to appear at the hearing today.
    Charles Clements, 1101 Kenyon street northwest, Washington, was arrested near Bailey's Cross Roads and charged with being drunk. Justice of the Peace John Dowden fined him $19.50 on this charge.

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    Deputy Sheriff W. A. Wheeler and Carl McIntosh, accompanied by Prohibition Inspector Virgil Williams, were called to Lacy's Dance hall near Baily's Cross Roads last night.
    A disturbance occurred there when a car belonging to the Potomac Electric Power Co., of Washington drove up with a soldier at the wheel.
    The officers stopped the car and another car drove up and the second driver charged that the first car ran into his auto, knocking off the fenders and forcing him into the ditch.
    The two soldiers were placed under arrest. They gave their names as Tommy Tedor and William Van Horn of Walter Reed Hospital.
    Russell Wyncoop, of Colvin Run was driving the car with which they collided.
    Lector was taken before Justice of the Peace John Dowden, of Bailey's Cross Roads, and charged with driving while drunk, hit and run driving and transportation of liquor. Bond for his appearance before the grand jury was set at $1,000. William Van Horn, who was with him, was held on a $500 bond on a charge of being drunk and transportation and possession of liquor. They are now held in the Fairfax jail.
    According to the officers who arrested him, Lector was accused of stealing the car and then he stated that he was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital in the daytime and worked for the electric company at night.
    He refused to tell at what place in Washington he took the car. The car was a new Chevrolet roadster, registry number 96.
    The Fairfax authorities state that after the two men have answered charges here they will be turned over to the District authorities on the charge of stealing the car.
    Russell Wyncoop, who figured in the case at Lacy's dance hall and caused the arrest of the soldiers, suffered more grief as he was returning home. Near Falls Church his car was again sideswiped by two cars that were racing down the highway. His automobile was completely wrecked, but he escaped injury.

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    Seven boys were arrested in Falls Church on Halloween. They were charged with tearing down mail boxes, taking shutters off houses and causing damage to the Villa Music Academy and disturbing the peace. Town Sergeant Mitchell and a special deputy took them before Justice of the Peace J. L. Moling, who held them for their appearance before Mayor John F. Bethune next Monday evening.

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Source:

Unknown, "Halloween Pranks Result in Arrest, Fairfax Police Are Kept Busy by Youthful Antics and Motor Mishaps," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Saturday, 2 November 1929, p. 18.

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