The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-11

The BURGLARY AT DR.. WO1LARD's-THE
BoY-HERo-SoME NEW FACTs.-The police
Of the Third district have given thoughtful
consideration to all the facts brought to
their attention in connection with the bur-
glary at DR.. Wollard's, but so far have not
been able to trace the burglar. They have
visited the premises. looked at the doors
and windows, conversed with Willie VOL
lard, and interviewed those who were first
on the spot after the alarm was given, but
without learning anything more that prom
ises to throw light Immediately on the sub
iect of investigation. Willie has probably
told his story over hundred times, and
never varies in any important particular.
j.. The idea that mere youth, suddenly
awakened from profound slurcber would
enter dark room to contend with bur-
glar, and should actually wound him and
put him to flight. seems incredible to many
people. Yet the facts so far developed con-
firm Willie Wollards statement. a>
Some explanation seems to be needed.
about Willie putting on his hat to go from
one room to another under the exciting cir
cumstances existing. He says, as to that,
that his first purpose was to go into the
street or to the houses OF the nelghbors to
give the alarm, but that after putting on
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reconnoitre for himself. Willie says that
when be crossed the passage to enter the
k-basement room, in which the burglar
was concealed, he supposes that the bur-
glar had just finished taking the screws
out OF the "kecper." II so, that would
have released the bolt of the lock,
and given the burglar access to the
whole of the upper part of the house.
Anyhow, young Wollard was able to push
open this door (which had been previously
locked), and enter upon the robber sud-
denly. AS he did go the "keeper" Tell
with a noise, andthe screw-driver was after
wards found near to it on the floor. '
The face OF the man who was in the room
when WolIard entered and commenced
firing was, he thinks, concealed by mask.
His voice and language when he cried out
"Pm shot" induces Wollard to believe
that twas a white man. Wollard fred, be
states, five times; the burglar twice. The
marks Of four bullets are visible in the room,
showing that the pistol Of the robber and
that of the youth were OF q exactly the
same calibre, and carried identically the
same sort Of bullet-Smith d w esson's
copper cartridges, small size. One bullet,
it is supposed, lodged in the burglar, and
the other was fred at him when he was out
upon the back porch. II it didn't take effect
where aimed it sped away towards the open
field in rear of Clyde row.
The shot that went through young VOL
lar DIS hat, he claims, lodged in the wall just
above the washstand. The mark OF itin the
wall is lower than Wollard's head would
have been had he been standing up, but be
says Mt that time he was crouching
The screw-driver was marked on the han
die with q big 7. II tbatSor the dirk could
be identified it might throw some light on
this matter. ,.ss.
It is impossible that any one could have
sawed the window-blinds through, rifled a
trunk and wardrobe Of the most valuable
contents, and taken the "keeper" Of the
door (Which opens from that back-base-
ment room into the passage) off without o
light, but young Wollard saw none, though
he forced his way into the room without
moments warning, and thus prevented any
plumber from being carried away.
The spots OF blood were seen in consid-
cradle numbers on the floor and on the WIN
dow-sill, and, it is said, also on the parti-
tion separating Wollard's house from the
one west Of it.
Any way, the case is one that presents
fine field for the ingenuity OF our police,
aud they will doubtless improve it by earn
est work.
DEATH OF JAIEs D. BROWNE, EsQ.-Jus-
tice James D. Browne died yesterday morn
ing at bis residence, adjoining the Virginia
OPERA House, OF which property he was the