Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-18
COCKADE CITY.
PURYEAR, THE ALLEGED wIFE-MuR-
DERER, BACK IN JAIL.
Why q Change Of Venue was GRANTED
Sudden Death-Detective's
visit.
Correspondents of the Richmond Dispatch

PETERSBURG, March II, 1886.
Holmes X. Puryear, after having
been granted change Of venue, was
brought back from Dinwiddie Court
house by Sheriff Gillian last night and
locked up in his old quarters in our
city jail, where he will remain until
the May term Of the Circuit Court Of
Prince George county, at which time
and place he is to be tried. He was
taken out and brought back hand
cufIed and under guard. 1t is thought
by those who had occasion to notice the
conduct of the accused that since his
visit to the Courthouse yesterday he is
not so full of hope and spirit as he was
before. lie, however, stood the gaze
Of the crowd at the Courthouse with
calmness and without evidence of feel
ing.
The sheriff had summoned a full
panel from the county from which to
select the requisite number Of jurors, but
the counsel for the prisoner moved, be-
fore any of the panel had been called, to
summon a jury from another county,
the reason urged therefor being the
great prejudice alleged to exist against
the accused and the inability to get
fair and impartial trial. This motion
was vigorously opposed by the prose-
cution as being premature, no effort
having been made to get jury from
the county, and so the Court decided.
Exceptions were taken, and then the
motion for a change of venue was made
and granted, and the Dlnwiddie panel
discharged.
Judge Hancock sat upon the bench
for the first time since his election as
Judge yesterday, and by his digniied
bearing, calm demeanor, and impartial
ity won the confidence and respect Of
all present.
Rev. +. G. Dargan, pastor Of the First
Baptist church in this city, received
telegram yesterday announcing the sud-
den death Of his mother at Spartans-
burg, S. c. lie left on the first train
for the South.
Postmaster Boiling to-day received a
large batch of letters forwarded to him
from Watertown, n. Y, which had been
addressed to him at that point by ex-
Confederate soldiers in different States
asking that they be made the recipients
of the generosity of the ex-Federal SOL
diers residing in that vicinity who re-
Gently proposed to donate through Cen
eral Boiling their Government pensions
to such worthy, wounded Confederates
as he might name. Some Of these let
tiers were written from Virginia, some
from North and South Carolina, and
some from other States. and gave the
condition and character of the wounds
of the writers. But the pensions re-
ferred to had some time ago been dis
posed Of.
A gentleman who came in from Dim
widdie county this morning reports that
as he was passing the public-school
building in Rowanty district he disco
vered the roof of the house to be in
blaze. The school here is taught by
Mrs. Jane j. Cousins, and the building
is a fine one. After strenuous eXer-
tons by several Of the near neighbors,
who were hastily summoned, the house
was saved from destruction, though
considerably damaged.
A northern detective arrived here
late last night and consulted with the
Chief Of Police as to the wher eabouts
of DR.. NJ. L. Lincoln, the homo opathic
physician, who left our city some weeks
ago. 1t was stated by the officer that
DR.. Lincoln had forfeited bond for his
appearance in a certain case in court in
New York. The Doctors whereabouts
have for some time been unknown to his
acquaintance here. The detective hur-
riedly left for the North this morning.
An accident. which it is supposed
may prove fatal, is reported to have oc-
Cured in Chesterfield county, in the
neighborhood Of Chester, this morning.
The names Of the parties could not be
learned. 1t is stated that a colored
man, while handling gun, which he
did not know was loaded, pointed it at
colored woman, remarking that he
would shoot her. The trigger was
pulled and the gun proved to have been
we'll loaded, as the woman fell badly
wounded by buckshot.
RoBIN ADAIR.