DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 SEEMS DETERMINED TO DIE. John Marioni Makes a Second Attempt at Suicide in Anacostia. John Marioni, the man who attempted suicide at Charles Gibbons’ house in Anacostia last week by swallowing a quantity of laudanum, returned last night and began to arouse the neighborhood. The police were sent for to take him into custody, which was done by Officer Robie. Later he made a desperate and almost successful attempt to suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He raised an alarm and the door was hastily unbarred. Immediately inside hung Marioni suspended by a strap from the beam overhead. The strap was drawn tight around his neck and his face was black and his tongue protruding. Sergt. Anderson cut him down and proceeded to revive him. It was some time before Marioni regained consciousness and then he was unable to speak. Fearing to leave him in the station, the patrol wagon of the Fifth Precinct was telephoned for and Marioni was sent over. The whole cause of Marioni’s troubles is the refusal of his wife to live with him. He left her about six months ago and went to Philadelphia, where he obtained employment. He returned to Anacostia on last Tuesday and repaired to his wife’s boarding place, but she refused to see him and he swallowed laudanum. He is a Swiss and is forty years old. The woman whom Marioni claims as his wife is employed as a typewriter in an office in this city. She is but about twenty-two years of age. The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 Boys Would Fight for Cuba. The police have been asked to find James Ford, twelve years old, and Grover Kirby, also twelve, who ran away from their homes in South Washington Sunday, with the intention of going to Cuba and indulging in actual battle. Before starting, it is charged that one of the boys stole a sum of money from his father. The Ford boy lives at 935 G street southwest, and the Kirby boy lived a few doors away. The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 Another of Crew’s [sic] Assailants. George Beach, a clerk, has been arrested and is held at the Eighth Precinct station, charged with assault upon Enos Crews. Beach is supposed to be one of the men who was with Baum on Fourteenth street when he attacked Crews Sunday afternoon. It is likely that the other man in the crowd will not be arrested, as they really took no part in the fight. The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 Congress Heights Citizens’ Meeting. A citizens’ meeting was held at Congress Heights on Saturday night, and quite a number of people attended. While the meeting was going on inside the Congress Heights school house a thief visited the buggies outside and stole A. E. Randle’s laprobe, valued at $40, and a lot of groceries from James Beyer’s carriage. The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 2 Engaged in a Three-cornered Fight. Wallace Miller, John Patterson, and Frank Harris, a plate printer, a cab driver, and a bartender, indulged in a lively fight at Ninth and Pennsylvania avenue, about 1 o’clock this morning. Officer McDaniels arrested the men, and locked them up at the First Precinct Police Station.