The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-30

THE ALLEGED PgRPETnA1oR ARRESTED IN
wAsmSoToS-sTRAYGE STORY or HIS DIS
coyERY BY HIS VICTIMS NIECE.

THE ALLEGED PERPETRA1oR ARRESTED IN
wAsmYoToN-sTRAYGE STORY or HIS DIS
coyERY BY HIS VICTIMS NIECE.
washington Star, yestcrdsy.l
From information received here yesterday
afternoon, Sergeant McCathrsn and some
officer OF the county proceeded to the house
of coIored man named Beverly, at Hills
dale, and arrested Henry Lee alias Jesse
Daingerteld (colored) on suspicion oil mur-
dering Henry Williams (colored), near
Bowling Green, I'm Caroline county, Va,
on the night OF Friday, July 10th instant.
Sergeant McCathran's informant is colored
woman named Ella Johnson, living at Hills
dale, but who had recently made visit to
Bowling Green to see some relatives there.
Lee was captured last night and locked up,
and this morning taken to police head
quarters, when Ella johnson also appeared
and repeated her story.
She states that last Saturday one week
ago-the 18th instant-she went from here
to Bowling Green, and was surprised TO
learn that her uncle, Henry Williams, living
near that place had been murdered the day
before, and another named Jim Wright had
been badly beaten by Henry Lee (colored),
who Lad escaped, and that Walker Tol'i-
yer, a friend and confederate OF Lee, who
was with him, aiding and abetting him, had
been captured, and is now in the hands OF
The sheriff OF that county. Ella states that
Lee had an old grudge against jim Wright.
and in company with Tollver went TO
Wright's house, just outside Bowling
Green, about midnight and called him up,
and as he came outside commenced quar-
rel during which he struck him several
murderous blows on the head, when Will
iams, who was stopping in the same house,
clme to Wrights assistance. Lee. turning
upon him, asked what business he had to
interfere, and at the same time drawing a
long, thick knife, plunged it through the
fleshy part of Willams's left arm and into
his side. Williams fell back and died al
most instantly, having been stabbed through
the heart.
Seeing what had been done Lee and TOLL
yer fed. The latter was captured on the
spot, but Lee, in the darkness, escaped, and
after skulking several days succeeded in
finding his way to Stewards landing. where
he signalled the steamer John w. Thomp.
son Tuesday and came to this city.
II so happened that this was the same
boat on which the colored woman. Ella John
son, returned home, and although she die
not KNOW Lee, sue Was hOJ lOuS III udhibr
the discovery that be was the fugitive and
murderer OF her uncle. He had been de-
scribed to her by the people OF the neighbor
hood during her stay there, and she knowing
the efforts being made by the officers and
citizens, determined to draw him out IL
conversation, and during the trip up the
river she gained from him admissions quite
sufficient to convict him OF the crime. liz
inquired where the Beverly family. his rela
tives, lived, and it so happened that Ell'
knew them, and on the arrival OF the boa
she conducted him to the house, at Hills
dale, and then made the case known to th'
officers.
Lieutenant Eckloff, in charge Of the de
tective force, at once communicated Will
parties at Bowling Green, stating the fac
OF the arrest, and inQuiring whether or no
Lee is wanted there. An incident corroDo
rative OF Ella Johnson's story is that durinl
the pursuit OF Lee several shots were fre'
at him, one OF which caused him to drop
bundle containing pair OF shoes and som
clothing. The captured man has gun-sho
wound in his right band. which he state
was made by Il nail in getting over fence