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washingtonpost.com/local/lotteryLOTTERIESLOCAL DIGESTMARYLANDPregnant woman
killed, baby deliveredA pregnant woman who was
shot Friday night while inside a
residence in Columbia has died,
according to Howard County
police. Her baby was delivered
but is in critical condition.
County police reported
Saturday that officers responded
to the 6600 block of Dovecote
Drive for a report of several shots
fired about 11 p.m. Friday. The
police said multiple bullets were
fired into a residence from the
outside, and one of the rounds
struck Rabiah Ahmad, 30.
Ahmad was transported to
University of Maryland Shock
Trauma Center, where she later
died, police said. She was 28
weeks pregnant, and doctors
delivered the baby, who is in
critical condition, police said. No
one else was injured.
Detectives are trying to
determine whether someone in
the house might have been
targeted, police said. Police
reported that several unrelated
people live in the residence.
— Baltimore SunPolice say spy plane
helped in arrestBaltimore Police
Commissioner Michael Harrison
said last week that investigators
have cleared a homicide and a
nonfatal shooting with the help ofthe surveillance plane program
launched in May.
But a police spokeswoman said
the program has led to one
homicide arrest and to a person of
interest in a shooting.
The program has faced
criticism, partly because a similar
project was started in 2016 with
no public disclosure. Critics,
including several City Council
members, questioned the efficacy
of the new program, which they
say infringes on people’s privacy.
— Baltimore SunVIRGINIAAssault-style rifle
found near Lee statueRichmond police said they are
investigating after an assault-
style rifle and ammunition were
recovered near a statue of Robert
E. Lee on Monument Avenue.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
reported that police responded
late Thursday after someone told
authorities shots had been fired
into their vehicle after an
altercation near a traffic circle.
In a news release Friday, police
also said they received reports of
random gunfire in the area of the
monument.
One of the callers told officers
that a glass door of their home
had been shattered.
Police say they searched the
area and found a rifle and four
magazines. Police are
investigating whether the
incidents are related.
— Associated PressI’m a writer from
England who is
waiting out the
pandemic in a
house on Hillyer
Place NW, near
Dupont Circle.
How did the
street get its
name?
— Alan
Babington-Smith, Washington
Curtis Justin Hillyer drew his
last breath at 3 p.m. on Aug. 5,
1906, on a southbound train
returning to Washington from
Nova Scotia. The 78-year-old
lawyer had traveled to the
Canadian province for his health,
but had told his son he didn’t
think he had the strength to
return home by boat.
Ironically, Hillyer died on the
water anyway. He suffered a fatal
heart attack as his Pullman car
was being floated across the
Hudson River on a ferry to Jersey
City, N.J., where it would have
been placed on the tracks to
continue its journey south.
Not all rich men are
interesting. Hillyer was. His life
was marked by great wealth,
great accomplishment and great
sorrow.
Hillyer was born in 1828 in
Ohio. He graduated from Yale in
1850, then went to Cincinnati to
study law. In 1852, he
accompanied an uncle to
Northern California, a trip
intended both to improve
Hillyer’s health and his wallet.
There was gold in them thar hills.
Hillyer worked his claim
successfully, then turned to a less
labor-intensive way of making
money. He moved to the Nevada
Territory and set out a shingle as
a lawyer specializing in mining
issues. Among his clients were
the owners of the Comstock
Lode, the massive vein of silver
ore. They paid Hillyer a $2,000-a-
month retainer — r oughly
$40,000 today — t o, as one
newspaper put it, “keep the
numerous fusses quieted down
and to see that peace reigned.”
Hillyer clerked for a judge in
Nevada but apparently was never
on the bench himself. Even so, for
the rest of his life, people called
him “Judge Hillyer.” He served in
Nevada’s state legislature,
representing Storey County, and
it was in that capacity that he
rose on Feb. 16, 1869, to deliver a
speech in favor of giving women
in Nevada the vote.
Barely literate men were
allowed to vote, Hillyer said,
while smart women were not.
That didn’t seem right.
Hillyer appealed for support to
his fellow Republicans, arguing
that the party was successful
because it was not stuck in the
past. Republicans had succeeded,
he said, because they wereprogressive, “because we had the
courage to pluck out, from the
overwhelming mass of prejudice
in which it was buried, a
principle of eternal truth; dared
boldly to inscribe it on our
banners and to march to battle
with the watchword of universal
freedom.”
Amazingly, the bill squeaked
through, but faltered in the next
legislature and was never passed.
H illyer moved to Washington
in the 1870s, around the time
Alexander “Boss” Shepherdbecame the city’s governor. He
became part of a group of
wealthy investors who bought up
parcels of land north of Dupont
Circle, expecting the city to grow
in that direction. They were
collectively known as the
“California Syndicate.” The group
included another attorney,
Thomas Sunderland, whose
name lives on in Sunderland
Place NW.
Hillyer Place runs between
20th and 21st streets NW,
between Q and R. Several of thehouses Judge Hillyer built there
remain, including those between
2010 and 2023 Hillyer Place. For
himself, Hillyer built a 16-room
mansion where the Cosmos Club
stands today. (Hillyer Court,
which snakes behind the Phillips
Collection, was the carriage lane
for that house.)
Hillyer and his wife, Angeline,
had four sons and a daughter,
Bessie. In the autumn of 1887,
Bessie became engaged to W.L.
Trenholm, son of the
comptroller of the currency. On
Dec. 22, two months before the
planned wedding, Bessie, 18,
showed up in Baltimore with
Grassie Bulkley, the 20-year-old
son of a District physician. With
Antonio Nogueiras, son of the
Portuguese ambassador, serving
as a witness, the couple married.The scandal rocked
Washington’s blue bloods.
“Young Bulkley,” as he was called,
was no slouch. His ancestors had
come over on the Mayflower and
his father was head of the
District Medical Association.
Still, Bessie’s family was opposed.
They tried to get the marriage
annulled.
Bessie gave conflicting
messages about her preference.
She stayed with Bulkley for a
while, then moved back to her
family’s home on Massachusetts
Avenue. It was there, on April 11,
1888, that she swallowed arsenic.
She died the next day.
The suicide attracted even
more attention than the
elopement. Wrote The P ost: “The
terrible mental anguish that had
produced this result and had
changed a beautiful and
apparently happy bride into a
miserable and half-demented
woman, who, to end her troubles,
ended also her existence, and all
in the course of a few short
months, has yet to be explained.”
Bessie Hillyer Bulkley was
buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, her
grave unmarked. Eighteen years
later, her father, the patron of
Hillyer Place, joined her there.
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washingtonpost.com/john-kellyThe amazing life of the w ealthy namesake of Hillyer Place NW in Dupont Circle
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A s ign marks Hillyer Place NW in Dupont Circle. The street is
named after Curtis Justin Hillyer, who struck it rich in the
California Gold Rush before expanding his wealth as a lawyer and
moving to D.C., where he helped develop t he area near his street.OAK HILL CEMETERYaverage positivity rate had
dropped to 4.47 percent, with
592 current hospitalizations and
132 intensive care beds in use.
Maryland reported 1,019 new cas-
es and 13 more deaths on Saturday.
In Virginia, there were 913 new
cases and 41 more deaths. The
District reported 79 new cases and
no additional deaths.
[email protected]stand, identify, and stop the
spread of this virus.” The state, he
added, will continue to make “un-
limited quantities of tests avail-
able.”
Statewide, nearly 930,000
Marylanders have been tested,
representing 15.4 percent of the
population.
As part of his announcement,
Hogan said the state’s seven-dayset the goal of 10 percent in June,
telling county leaders in a letter
that it was “absolutely critical to
step up local COVID-19 testing
response efforts so that we may
continue to move forward on the
road to recovery.”
Hogan commended county
leaders, saying in a statement that
“our aggressive statewide testing
strategy is helping us to under-BY MICHAEL S. ROSENWALDMaryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R)
said Saturday that the state’s 24 ju-
risdictions had each tested 10 per-
cent of their populations for the
novel coronavirus, an important
milestone in his administration’s
effort to slow the spread of the
virus.
The state’s health department
THE REGION
Md. tests 10% of population in each jurisdiction
Street NW near the White House
in June, activists across the coun-
try have demanded the right to
paint their own messages. City
officials have conceded in some
cases, allowing protesters in the
District, for example, to paint
“Defund the police” next to
Bowser’s original declaration.
But in other cities, including
Tulsa, officials have ordered
street paintings erased after op-
posing parties fought to make
their mark.
It is illegal for people to write
or mark on any public or private
property without a permit. The
District’s Department of Trans-
portation, which issues permits,
did not respond to calls and
emails seeking comment.
Representatives of the group
led by the Students for Life of
America and the Frederick Doug-
lass Foundation said they re-
ceived a D.C. police permit to
hold an event and were told by
an officer that he would not
prevent them from writing on
the asphalt.
The officer allegedly asked the
activists to use tempera paint,
Whittington said.
D.C. police declined to com-
ment on the allegations but said
they “did not issue a permit to
put a message on the street,” as
those permits are issued through
the D.C. Department of Trans-
portation.
The group said it also sent a
letter to Bowser requesting per-
mission to paint on the street,
writing, “Having opened thestreets of your city for public
expression, Students for Life of
America requests the opportu-
nity to add our voices to those
concerned about how people of
color are treated in America.”
The mayor did not respond to
the letter, according to Kristi
Hamrick, a spokeswoman for the
group.
On Saturday, calls to “abolish
abortion” and “defund Planned
Parenthood” continued long af-
ter the early-morning arrests.
The group gathered at Frederick
Douglass Court to pray for Black
mothers and their “pre-born
children” b efore marching along
Fourth Street NE to the Planned
Parenthood building, where they
held letter posters that together
spelled out “Black Pre-Born Lives
Matter.”
Cherilyn Holloway, the found-
er of Pro-Black Pro-Life, gripped
a bullhorn and urged listeners
before her and on Facebook Live
to consider how racism extends
beyond pregnancy.
“I would talk to my other Black
friends who stand for racial jus-
tice, and I would talk about the
abortion rate in the Black com-
munity... and they would look
back at me and they would say,
‘Well, what about when they are
out of the womb?’ ” she said. “And
I knew I could not be the only
one who cared about both.”
Holloway said that she cares
most about support systems for
low-income people and outlaw-
ing abortion, but that the na-
tion’s racial reckoning has madeher feel more isolated in her
beliefs.
“The Black Lives Matter move-
ment has reinforced that for me,
pro-life messaging has been real-
ly polarizing,” she said.
Michele Hendrickson, the
eastern regional director of Stu-
dents for Life of America, said
the antiabortion movement has
been fighting racism for decades.
“It’s just we are finally being
heard,” she said.
For Kendra Evans, a 39-year-
old from Capitol Heights, the
event Saturday touched on two
issues that had shaped her life:
Blackness and abortion in the
United States.
As she marched up the paved
hill and neared the gray building,
where she believes generations
of Black children have been
killed, she recalled her own two
abortions.
“There is more pressure as a
Black person to survive,” Evans
said, explaining that the unique
hardships that come with being
Black made her feel that she had
little choice but to have abor-
tions. Fighting for racial justice
and staunchly opposing abor-
tion, she said, should go hand in
hand.
As she rounded a corner, be-
ginning her first march this year
for Black lives, the Rev. Dean
Nelson, the president and chief
executive of the Frederick Doug-
lass Foundation, clapped at her
and shouted, “Frederick Doug-
lass would be proud of you.”
[email protected]BY EMILY DAVIESTwo protesters outside a
Planned Parenthood facility
were arrested and charged with
defacing public or private prop-
erty early Saturday, according to
D.C. police and video footage.
Erica Caporaletti, a 22-year-
old student at Towson Univer-
sity, and Warner DePriest, a 29-
year-old D.C. resident, were writ-
ing “Black Pre-Born Lives Mat-
ter” with chalk on the sidewalk
when police arrested them.
The arrests happened just be-
fore 6 a.m., soon after a group of
about two dozen people, led by
the antiabortion advocacy group
Students for Life of America,
showed up to paint in the street
of the 1200 block of Fourth Street
NE as part of what they called a
campaign to highlight the im-
pact of abortion on Black com-
munities.
Tina Whittington, executive
vice president of Students for
Life of America, said police first
warned that they would detain
the group if they painted the
street and then told them they
could not write on the sidewalk
with chalk.
Caporaletti and DePriest be-
gan to write faster when police
moved to arrest them for defac-
ing public property, rushing
through the w ord “Pre-Born”
when officers approached them,
according to a video taken by the
protesters. They were arrested
and held for about an hour
before returning to the scene to
condemn the city for its response
to their protest.
“This is government censor-
ship,” Caporaletti said through a
bullhorn, with a Planned Parent-
hood sign behind her and a
“Black Pre-Born Lives Matter”
poster between her and a small
crowd.
Representatives of Students
for Life of America said they plan
to sue D.C. Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) on the grounds that
the police action violated their
First Amendment rights.
The mayor’s office did not
respond to calls and emails seek-
ing comment.
The arrest provides a window
into ongoing controversy sur-
rounding the painting of slogans
on streets. Ever since Bowser
commissioned the painting of
“Black Lives Matter” on 16th
THE DISTRICT
Two anti-abortion activists arrested at protest
MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Demonstrators with Students for Life of America and the Frederick Douglass Foundation rally
Saturday at Planned Parenthood in Northeast, decrying the effect of abortion in Black communities.Wrote slogan in chalk
at Planned Parenthood
facility in NEBY MARTIN WEILThe incident was unusual for
two reasons. Breaking into a car to
steal a dog does not happen every
day. And thefts of all items from
cars have fallen recently.
L yric, an 8-year-old Yorkie mix,
was taken about 4 :45 p.m. Tuesday
from a car parked in the 6500
block of Georgia Avenue NW, D.C.
police said.
After Lyric’s owner went into a
store, the thief stopped a caralongside hers, broke the driver’s-
side window and took the dog
before driving off, police said.
The larceny happened in a year
when thefts from cars, a chronic
problem in the Washington area,
have dropped in the District by
22 percent compared with 2019.
The decline has come in the
past four months, a period in
which D.C. residents were asked to
stay home to help stop the spread
of the novel coronavirus.
In the first three months of
2020, thefts stayed about even
with last year: There were 2,603,
compared with 2,666. Then in the
past four months, thefts from cars
fell from 3,202 in the same months
of 2019 to 1,979 this year.
But the favorable trend was
probably of small consolation to
Lyric or the pet’s owner.
[email protected]THE DISTRICTIt shouldn’t
happen to a dog:
Pooch plucked