The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-02
Especial teIegram To tho nlspatch.l

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last night, while several women were as
sembed in the house OF Glcnory Henson
(coored), Joseph Henson, grandson OF
Glenory's, came rushing down stairs with
n large stick in his hand, talking to himself
and giving every evidence that his mind
was mhinged from liquor or some other
cause. Tie Immediately began brandishing
the stick and threatening the women with
instant death. His features were very much
distorted, and his eyes, according To the
testimony Of one OF the women, fairly
flashed fire. The women, frightened nearly
TO death. made a rush into the back yard.
and thence into the kitchen, where they
holted themselves in. The mailman fol-
lowed them, bidding them come out. as
he had orders 90 put them all to death, and
finally began TO batter the door with LOG
which he found in the yard. About this
time
GLENoRY HENSON,
who had been out visiting, and was taking
a short cut to his house, came over the
fence INTO his garden. Joseph at once de-
sisted from battering the door Of the kitchen
and stole toward his grandfather imbued.
II j. supposed. with the idea OF offering
him up n sacrifice. The old man was all
unconscious OF the fate in store for him
when Joseph lcaped towards him with a
bound and followed close behind. Up TO
this point he was seen by the women in the
kitchen. Then both were lost sight OF,
and nothing further is positively known.
FOUND MURDERED.
The women in the kitchen, who were
afraid TO stir out, heard noise the old man
made in falling, and In q few minutes after
wards they heard the mailman say distinct
~. " Are YOU dead, grandfather" After
this all was still for more than half an
hour. when they heard Edward Coleman,
with whom the murdered man had spent
the evening, calling out for some one TO
come 10 his assistance. They cried out TO
him. i'm reply, and he told them that there
was nobody outside except himself and the
old man. who was dead. The women then
went ont into the street, where they found
the old man lying in the ditch, dead and
almost cold. They lifted him up and car
ried him into the house. For some time
they could hear in the distance the voice Of
the mailman, Joseph, as he cried out,
d" Are you dead, grandfather"
The old man, ii is surmiSed, was first
struck from behind rs he went out on the
street, about fifty yards below his house,
driven thither by the mailman. Then he
was struck on the head, over the eve, and
each temple was pierced by a nail doubt
less one which had been attached TO the
end Of the paling which the mailman used.
AFTER TIE KILLING.
After killing his grandfather the mad
nun, who conceived that he was called on
to do general execution, proceeded to the
residence Of Captain John II. Hill, and be-
can TO thump and bang on the door. The
Captain wife went TO the door, and Joseph
asked if three men calling them by nance
were in the house; that ii they were he
must see them at once, rs he had important
business with them. The frightened
woman told him that they were not,
and shut the door in his face. This
eumgcd the mailman, and threatening
the lives OF everybody within, he began 10
Kick against the door, SCATTERING one Of the
panels. The noise awakened Captain Hill,
who came down stairs with his pistol, and
going through his back way, went through
an alley 10 the front part Of his house. He
snapped his pistol at the maniac several
times, but il would not fire. He then told
him 10 90 away or be would Kill him, TO
which the man replied by hurllng a stick
at Captain Hill and running oil. In few
minutes he returned, when Captain Hill,
who had managed TO fix his pistol, fired at
him twice, and scared him OF.
STATEMENT OF AN OFFICER.
The following statement, made by Officer
IF. y. Webb, Will give some notion as to
hi, exploits afierward:
About 1 O'Clock ! got information that
there was big fuss on the Height; that a
crazy man was loose and trying 10 Kill
everybody. Officers Maiher and Ruflin
went with me to the place. We found the
prisoner on It. Matthew street, and adj
vlnced on him. He struck me heavy
blow with a paling, and dropped it and
ran. Nv arm was not broken. but badly
bruised. lie jumped on the fence, aud /
caught him. The other officers came up,
and We tied him and brought him to the
Jail. We did not know at the time that a
man had been killed. We went back and
found the body OF the deceased. HIS chin
was broken. ana It seemed that nail had
penetrated both temples.
Before he went 10 Captain Hills. and
while he was running amuck on the street,
he struck several persons, among whom
was an old negro named Willis lIabry.
The blows were quite severe, and fell upon
the old mans head and back. lie also al
tackled another man named Wells, and in
ficted several painful wounds.
The prisoner was lodged in Jail to await
examination before commission.
On Sunday he had two fits, but he had
been quiet ever since, and had improved
so rapidly that he was considered nearly