Clubbed Negro Poet’s Wife

Policeman Kemp on Trial for Conduct During McKinley’s Obsequies.

     Policeman William Kemp, of the Fourth precinct, was before Judge Pugh, sitting in place of the trial board yesterday, on a charge growing out of the crush at the Capitol the day of the McKinley obsequies. He is charged by a Mrs. P. L. Dunbar, the wife of a negro poet, with having hit her over the head with his club while driving the crowd back from the Capitol steps. She is said to have thus received a severe contusion of the forehead.
     The case was continued until Saturday and in the meantime an effort will be made to have the case settled in the Police Court, where properly it should be adjudicated.