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Source: Washington Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Clubbed Negro Poet’s Wife” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Washington, DC Date of publication: 3 October 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 2685 Pagination: 8 |
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| “Clubbed Negro Poet’s Wife.” Washington Times 3 Oct. 1901 n2685: p. 8. |
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| William J. Kemp; McKinley funeral services (Washington, DC: panic); Alice Ruth Dunbar; McKinley funeral services (Washington, DC: attendees). |
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| Alice Ruth Dunbar; William J. Kemp; James L. Pugh. |
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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.