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struck her vehicle, police said.

Christina Michele Lay, 49, of

Edgewater, died after being

taken to a hospital after the

crash just before 5:30 p.m.

Monday on Davidsonville Road

in Davidsonville, police said.

Police said the driver of the

other vehicle was on

Davidsonville Road just south of

Rutland Road when they crossed

the center of the road and struck

the victim’s car. Police said the

driver w as seriously injured.

— Martin Weil

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Victim identified in

Metro station stabbing

The man who was fatally

stabbed Monday morning on the

platform of the Pentagon Metro

station has been identified as a

25-year-old from Northwest

Washington, a spokesman for the

transit agency said.

Sean Ronaldo Golden, who

lived near the Brightwood Park

neighborhood, died shortly after

arriving at a hospital, a report

provided by Metro says.

Police said Golden was

stabbed about 9 a.m. Monday on

a lower platform at the station in

Arlington.

The report provided by a

Metro spokesman, Dan Stessel,

says investigators obtained

images of a possible suspect from

video and recognized him from

images of a previous stabbing in

Northeast Washington along

Minnesota Avenue.

Metro Transit Police were sent

to Minnesota Avenue and

reported that the suspect was

seen at a Valero gas station in the

3700 block. Police said he was

spotted going into a convenience

store next to the station, where

the report says he threw a knife

under a shelf.

Police said they arrested

Vincent Wilson, 27, and charged

him in a warrant from Virginia

with second-degree murder. No

address was given for Wilson.

Wilson made a brief

appearance in D.C. Superior

Court on Tuesday and will be

extradited to Arlington County

to face charges.

— Peter Hermann

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Woman dies in fire in

Glover Park apartment

An 86-year-old woman died in

a fire in an apartment Tuesday in

Upper Northwest Washington’s

Glover Park neighborhood,

according to D.C. police.

Joanne Meredith was

pronounced dead inside her

residence on the sixth floor in

the Carillon House Apartments

in the 2500 block of Wisconsin

Avenue NW, near the U.S. Naval

Observatory.

The fire broke out in the

kitchen about 5:20 p.m. and was

quickly extinguished by

firefighters, according to Vito

Maggiolo, a D.C. fire spokesman.

Maggiolo said Wednesday the

cause of the fire is undetermined

and remains under investigation.

He said Meredith was the sole

occupant of the apartment and

that she had a working smoke

detector that sounded. A person

who lives above her apartment

heard the alarm and called the

building’s front desk, Maggiolo

said.

— Peter Hermann

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Man found dead

i n Hyattsville

Police said Wednesday that a

man was found dead in Prince

George’s County. They are

investigating the death as a

homicide.

About 7:10 a.m., officers

responded to the 1500 block of

Merrimac Drive in Hyattsville

and discovered an unresponsive

man with trauma to the upper

body, Prince George’s County

police said in a statement.

The man, who was not

identified, was pronounced dead

at the scene, the statement said.

— Justin Wm. Moyer

Woman killed in crash

in Anne Arundel

A woman was killed in Anne

Arundel County after another

driver crossed the center of a

road into oncoming traffic and

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BY MARTIN WEIL

AND DANA HEDGPETH

Four law enforcement officers
were struck by a vehicle and one
person died in Prince George’s
County late Tuesday while the
officers were investigating an
earlier crash in the Largo area,
county police said.
Three county police officers
and a state trooper were hit
while on the scene of a crash near
Largo Road and Campus Way
South, said Officer Antonia
Washington, a spokeswoman for
the county police. The county
officers suffered injuries that did

not a ppear to b e life-threatening,

she said.

A driver involved in the earlier

crash also was hit by the vehicle,

police said on Twitter, and that

driver died. The victim was later

identified as Marc Alexander, 60,

of Upper Marlboro.

The incident happened just

before 10 p.m. when the state

trooper responded to the first

crash, according to Maryland

State Police. The three Prince

George’s County officers also re-

sponded to help.

An initial investigation found

a Chevrolet Impala was headed

southbound on Largo Road

when it rear-ended a Honda

Ridgeline driven by Alexander.

Police officials said the driver

of the Impala showed “signs of

impairment.”

Police officers were about to

do a sobriety test on the driver

when a Pontiac Grand Prix

struck the rear of the state troop-

er’s vehicle, causing it to hit the

three county police officers who

were standing at the back of the

Impala, authorities said.

The Grand Prix then side-

swiped the Honda Ridgeline and

hit Alexander, who was standing

outside his vehicle, according to

state police. Authorities said

th ey l ater f ound marijuana i n the

Grand Prix.

Alexander was taken to a hos-

pital, where he was pronounced

dead. No charges have been filed

yet in the second crash, accord-

ing to officials.

Police said Victoria Cross, who

was driving the Chevrolet Impa-

la that was involved in the initial

crash, has been charged with

driving under the influence,

re ckless driving and other charg-

es.

Officials said the investigation

is ongoing.

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1 man killed, 3 o∞cers injured in Largo crashes

Federal City” in the “Reading

Room” section of “Research &

History.” )

But how did the manuscript

end up there in the first place?

In 1958, the master of Tudor

Place was Armistead Peter III.

As president of the Progressive

Citizens Association of

Georgetown, he took an interest

in development in the

neighborhood. Peter opposed

plans to tear down a pair of

houses at 30th and P streets NW.

One was the house Lanman had

lived in.

Peter was unsuccessful in his

attempts to stop the demolition,

but Kail wonders if he walked

over to Lanman’s old home —

empty and derelict — and took a

souvenir.

“That was kind of my

romantic notion, that he found it

there at the house before it was

destroyed and said to someone,

‘Do you mind if I take this?’ ”

And then he brought it back

to Tudor Place and put it in a

box, where it sat until Wendy

Kail found it.

“It was just something

interesting,” she said. “I thought

it would take two days [to

research]. It was six months. I

kept finding little pieces....

That’s what I love about the

archive.”

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couples left for a joint

honeymoon in New York City.

Lanman eventually became

the personal secretary to

Secretary of State Daniel

Webster. One reason Webster

hired him: Lanman was a fellow

angler. The two would

occasionally leave the office and

walk to Great Falls to fish

together.

In 1859, Lanman began

producing biographical

directories of congressmen. I

find it fascinating that the writer

who found such joy in nature

early in his career turned to

politicians later in it. But

perhaps he was just interested in

wildlife in its natural habitat,

whatever that might be.

Lanman’s life is detailed in an

article Kail wrote that is posted

on the Tudor Place website. (You

can find it at tudorplace.org

under “Georgetown and the

mirror and read a signature:

Charles Lanman.

“I think he had just signed

something and it bled through,”

Kail said of the reversed

handwriting.

Charles Lanman turned out to

be a successful artist and author

who was born in 1819 in

Michigan and died in

Washington in 1895. To confirm

he wrote the manuscript, Kail

bought one of his letters from a

Delaware bookseller. The

handwriting matched.

As a young man, Lanman was

what we might today call an

outdoors writer. He wrote about

his adventures canoeing up the

Mississippi and hiking through

the Allegheny Mountains. He

sketched Native American

encampments.

“My idea,” Lanman wrote,

“was to cultivate in the minds of

the American people, as far as

possible, a love for the

wonderful scenery of their

country, and for art itself.”

In 1848, the editor of the New

York Express newspaper hired

Lanman and sent him to

Washington with the advice,

“don’t believe anything that you

hear, and not more than one-half

that you see.”

Lanman settled in the capital.

On June 12, 1849, he married

Adeline Dodge. That’s not

especially interesting, but this is:

Three of Adeline’s siblings also

wed that same day. After the

quadruple wedding, all four

The first clue to
the story behind
the papers
discovered in the
basement of the
Georgetown
mansion was who
didn’t write them.
“It was not in
any of their
handwriting,”
said Wendy Kail , the archivist
at Tudor Place, home for decades
to members of the Peter family.
“I know all their handwriting at
this point.”
That would be six generations
of Peters, starting with Thomas
Peter , who married one of
Martha Washington’s
granddaughters, Martha Parke
Custis.
Tudor Place houses many
items — correspondence,
journals, books and photographs
— that trace the history of the
family and the city. And then
there was the sheaf of papers in
a box whose contents had not
been collated.
“I saw this on the very bottom
of it,” Kail said. “I thought, ‘Wait
a minute. This looks
interesting.’”
The world’s archives, libraries,
attics and basements are full of
stories that lay dormant in
musty documents. Most of those
stories won’t rewrite history. But
each is a little tile in the mosaic
that is the past.
And so it was with Kail’s
discovery. The handwriting was
on 99 pages of lined 7½-by-9½-
inch paper. There was no
signature, but it was clear the
manuscript was a draft for a
visitor’s guide to Washington.
The title page read, “The
Federal Metropolis, or: The
Story of a Century.” And the
preface began: “One hundred
and three years have now passed
away since the law was adopted
by Congress, looking to the
establishment of the Federal
metropolis on the banks of the
river Potomac. It is this fact
which has induced the writer to
try and prepare a volume that
might be in keeping with the
event in question, and of interest
to the lovers of historic lore.”
There was no name, but on
the back cover was a scribble.
Kail held the scribble up to a

At Tudor Place, a curious find at the bottom of a box

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Kelly's
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lIbrary of congress

Tudor Place in Georgetown houses items that trace the history of the Peter family and the city. One

such item is a manuscript that appears to be a 19th-century draft for a visitor’s guide to Washington.

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As a young man, Charles

Lanman was what we might

today call an outdoors writer.

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