DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 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) --------------------------------------------------- STRUCK BY A CARRIAGE. T. M. Milstead Knocked Down and Painfully Injured. T. M. Milstead, of 3126 N street northwest, was knocked down by the horses attached to a double carriage at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street shortly after 11 o’clock last night. Mr. Milstead was badly bruised and shaken up, but he was taken home on a cable car. W. H. Cook, the colored driver of the turnout, was arrested by Policeman Hodges and locked up at the First Precinct station on a charge of fast driving. He is employed by Dean’s stables, P near Fifteenth street. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 2 DICKINSON IS A DECEIVER He Promised to Wed Five Washington Maidens. Mary Ricker, His Latest Victim, Taken to His Home in Alexandria to Induce His Wife to Sue for Divorce – Thought He Was Single. Mary E. Ricker, a girl of twenty years, who, it is alleged, had been secretly taken to Alexandria by James Dickinson, a machinist, employed by Doremus & Just, on Eleventh street, ten days ago, was brought back to Washington yesterday by her mother, Mrs. Robert Ricker, and taken to her home, 30 G street northeast. It is said that when the girl told her mother two weeks ago of her intimacy with Dickinson, the mother was so infuriated that she ordered the girl away from home. Later, the mother repented, and with the aid of the Alexandria police, sought out the erring daughter. Dickinson is said to have fled to Washington after having had a knock-down fight in the Doremus & Just establishment with Robert Ricker, father of the unfortunate girl. Dickinson is a married man, and his wife and her two children live at 230 North Alfred street, Alexandria. To this house Dickinson boldly took the Ricker girl, in spite of Mrs. Dickinson’s protests. The girl, after having been with Mrs. Dickinson a day or two, became confidential, and said that she had visited the house with her husband, so that the wife would be induced to apply for a divorce. Dickinson had promised to marry her then, she explained. The Ricker girl said that she always supposed that Dickinson was a single man, until she undertook to force him to marry her. She was desperate, so that when he proposed to take her into his home and force the wife to a divorce, she agreed. Mrs. Dickinson told Officer Smith, of the Alexandria police, yesterday that Dickinson had pretended to be a single man for two or three years, and had courted five different girls in Washington, and had arranged marriages with each of them. Mrs. Dickinson gave the names and addresses of these young women, and said that only by secretly following her husband and finding these girls had she prevented the unlawful marriage. She found one girl the day before she was to marry Dickinson. The girl was putting the finishing touches to her wedding dress, and Dickinson was at the house when the wife appeared. All of these girls were working girls, one being employed in a store, and two in laundries. Mary Ricker told Mrs. Dickinson that she met Dickinson at one of the “flying horse” or “merry-go-round” devices which were so thick in Washington last summer. Dickinson is twenty-nine years of age. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 2 Statehood for Territories. The House Committee on Territories will vote on Wednesday on the bills providing enabling acts for the admission of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico to the Union. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 2 REV. DR. PATCH PARALYZED Stricken as He Was About to Go to Church. Pastor of the Gunton-Temple Memorial Church Becomes Speechless Just Before His Sermon – Strong Hopes of His Recovery. Rev. Dr. George B. Patch, pastor of Gunton-Temple Memorial Church, Fourteenth and R streets, was stricken with paralysis at 10:50 yesterday morning, and for several hours was in a serious condition, but he rallied later, and the doctors attending him have every hope of his recovery. He has not been able to say more than a word or two at a time since he was stricken, but from what can be learned he was sitting in a chair in his dressing room, at his residence, 1323 R street, putting off his slippers, preparing to go to his church to deliver his morning sermon. He must have fallen out of the chair while stooping over, and the servant girl, the only person in the house, Mrs. Patch having gone to the church, heard the noise and went to the room. She found him paralyzed and speechless, lying upon the floor on his right side. She did what she could for him, and then called assistance. Drs. Corey and McArdle were summoned, and after an examination announced that his right side was paralyzed. Last night Dr. Patch seemed to be out of danger, and Dr. Busey will take charge of the case to-day. Dr. Patch could not carry on an extended conversation last night, but was able to say a few words. The physicians directed that he be kept perfectly quiet. Only one or two persons saw him, among whom were Dr. Talmage, who is an intimate friend of the stricken man, and Dr. Talmage told him he would fill his pulpit for him next Sunday morning. Dr. Colquitt Pratt filled it yesterday morning and last night. The news of his illness spread very rapidly over the city yesterday, and in the afternoon nearly all the prominent divines in the city called to learn of his condition. Saturday evening Dr. Patch made several calls on members of his congregation, and was in the best of health. He was joking, in fact, with his wife, ten minutes before he was stricken. He is fifty-nine years old, and this is the only trouble of a similar nature he has ever had. He is the founder of Gunton Church, and has been its pastor for fifteen years. Members of his congregation came to the assistance of Mrs. Patch last night, and the stricken man had every possible attention, and it was thought he would steadily improve.